Once upon a time many years ago there lived a monster in a cave. He was a hideous beast with green fur and yellow teeth. The townspeople feared him and would never approach his cave, he in turn would never venture out to the town for he new he was not wanted and didn't like the people much anyh...

The epic poem Beowulf, composed in 100 A.D., describes three battles of ancient hero Beowulf with monsters. More than 1500 years later, A. Foster's Pale Rider displayed another hero-The Preacher, who brought justice and peace back to innocent gold miners. Both of them dealt with heroes, who fig...

The Epitome of Evil. The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is the most important work of Old English literature, and is well deserved of the distinction. The epic tells the story of a hero, a Geat prince named Beowulf, who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel, a descendant ...