that dies in every story). Not only did he best Grendel, but he did it without a sword or armor. Unfortunately Grendel did escape, minus a whole arm (the Danish wanted him dead but they werent too mad).The next night, the losers mother decided to come up and cause trouble (Revenge). She ends up killing one of Hrothgars closest advisors. Having heard this, Beowulf jumped back on the fame train and headed for the monsters lair a lake of pure evil located a few miles from Hrothgars Hall. The partially famous guy sank to the bottom of the lake (which took hours) and he had an even better battle with Grendels mother. After slaying the mother, he found Grendel laying in a corner of the lair and, using a magical sword he found in the lair, sliced Grendels head clean off so he could claim all the glory and have proof of how heroic and great he was. The sword, after slicing through the pure evil, was somehow melted away so all that was left was the hilt, which he gave to Hrothgar as part of the battle set (head and hilt).That was how Beowulf attained his glory. After many years as king of the Geats he faced another crisis a dragon had awakened and started to destroy and kill people and buildings. Beowulf, being old now, figured that he had to slay the dragon, otherwise others would have called him a bad ruler and he would have the kind of fame no one wants (he wanted to be the hero to the end). So he gathered up his troop and headed off bravely to the tower where the dragon slept. This was where he proved that he was very brave and was a good person who was honorable. Those are the keys to being famous (in fairytale land anyway). While all his men (except one) fled his side, he bravely fought the dragon. He did not survive the battle against the dragon, however, but Beowulf did manage to slay him. And death in battle also attributes to the glory he earned and will leave him to be a very famous man throughout history (in the story...
