Another important aspect of a hero is loyalty. Any hero can perform great feats and make miracles happen, but if they aren’t loyal, you won’t be able to rely on them all the time. The level of Beowulf’s loyalty is unlike any other hero. He was king of the Dane’s after he defeated Grendel and Grendel’s mother, taking Hrothgar’s responsibility. In his …show more content…
Doing things when you don’t have to is the essence of being a hero. Many times through this poem, we see Beowulf display selflessness. He traveled a far distance to battle a monster he had no business intervening with. Knowing he could lose his life in the brawl with Grendel, he came anyway telling the Danes not to mourn over him if he dies. Beowulf said,” And I think, if my time will have come, there’ll be nothing to mourn over, no corpse to prepare for its grave: Grendel will carry our bloody flesh to the moors, crunch on our bones and smear torn scraps of our skin on the walls of his den.” (Beowulf 179-184). Beowulf wants to help and doesn’t want anyone to feel remorse if he fails. Helping people with no thought of anything in return is a trait Beowulf possesses that makes him an epic