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Beowulf In all of my travels northward I had never come across a more amazing experience than the time I encountered the great Geat king, Beowulf. It all started when Caesar Marcus Aurelius asked me to scout out the lands to the far north in an attempt to expand the empire. I departed northward along with three other men on an expedition that would soon bring us to great peril. Partway into the expedition, one …

…in the Hall. Grendel’s mother was back to take vengeance for her son. Upon returning to Rome, I was hailed as a hero for surviving the great ordeal that was placed upon me. My men are dead and I wonder what would have become of me had I not escaped Grendel’s lair. I sacrificed my arms for Rome so that I can live to tell this story of Beowulf and the vicious Grendel.