Sailing the short distance from Geatland to Denmark, the sixth-century warrior was sure he could help. His name was Beowulf. He would soon meet a monster – the powerful demon Grendel – who had terrorized the Danes for a dozen years.jewelry and his exploits, told by long-ago poets, comes to us through a single jewelry written in Old English. Is the story true? Where (and when) was the manuscript written? And … how could the story of Beowulf – about Scandinavian jewelry – become Britains national epic?jewelry