Truth: Beowulf would've been a vanity project if it wasn't written by Headley, ... Hamilton for the Geats and Skyldings — full of blood and honor, inside jokes and historical digressions.

Beowulf then rules the Geats as king for 50 years, until, as an old man, he sets himself the task of battling a flying, fire-breathing dragon. Abandoned by all but one of his followers, ...

Beowulf, mighty warrior of the Geats, hearing that some neighboring Danes are being terrorized by a misshapen antiman called Grendel, crews a ship with up-for-it countrymen and sails to the rescue.

Beowulf becomes King of the Geats and reigns for 50 years - until he challenges a dragon that ravages his kingdom. Both Beowulf and the dragon die in this final battle. Getty Images.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. I try to help my son, Rob, with his schooling, but over the year… ...

Beowulf’s backstory is ... fistfuls of old gold,” some treasure “shipped to stop his country’s wound,” solidifying the alliance of the Geats to the Danes. Neither does Beowulf shy from ...

Anyway, Beowulf bids Hrothgar and his Danes farewell and returns home to Geatland and becomes King of the Geats. 50 years go by, then one day, boom, a dragon attacks. It happens to the best of us.

Fifty years later Beowulf, now the aged king of the Geats, faces a dragon ravaging his land. Aided by the young Wiglaf, he kills the dragon, but dies of the wounds it has inflicted.

Finally, an aged Beowulf, who has become king of the Geats, confronts a third enemy—a dragon. The poem is replete with ominous forebodings, and this time Beowulf is tragically defeated.

Like the source material, the film follows Beowulf a hero of the Germanic tribe known as the Geats as he comes to the aid of the Danish king, Hrothgar, whose mead hall (known as Heorot) has been ...