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.

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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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...