Explanation:
The poem ‘Beowulf’ was written by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries. Beowulf is a poem written in Old English, a language that was spoken and written about 1,000 years ago (the approximate time of the events described in the poem). The poem, which is about 3,000 lines long, tells the story of a king named Beowulf who fights a monster named Grendel and later kills the monster’s mother. The original manuscript of Beowulf was discovered in Denmark in 1873.