Anglo-Saxon Warrior In The Epic Of Beowulf

Anglo-Saxon warriors, like Beowulf, fight some pretty crazy creatures. They exhibit characteristics that many people do not possess anymore, like honor, loyalty, strength, bravery, courage, courtesy, leadership, and pride. When Beowulf speaks about his swimming challenge with Breca, he tells Unferth and the others, “…when some ocean creature pulled me to the bottom. Pinioned fast and swathed in its grip, I was granted one final chance: my sword plunged and the ordeal was over. Through my own hands, the fury of the battle had finished off the sea-beast (Beowulf 39), but that’s not the only monster he killed while he was in the water. He states, “However it occurred, my sword had killed nine sea-monsters” (39). Let us not forget the main battle he encounters against Grendel, that he kills with one grasp,
He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it” (65). This is not the last he hears of Grendel though, when Grendel’s mother comes back to avenge her son’s death, he also has to defeat her. His last battle, which causes his death, seems to be the hardest. Beowulf’s last words are, “You are the last of us, the only one left of the Waegmundings. Fate swept us away, sent my whole brave high-born clan to their final doom. Now I must follow them.” Beowulf does not say his last goodbyes or I love yous. He stays in warrior mode from where we first meet him, until his death. Which makes me think, did Anglo-Saxon warriors have time to think of anything besides war? Did they fight internal demons like we do today? Well I do not believe they did. I think they were raised to have a certain mind-set, so they would not have time for internal demons. Maybe the internal problems people face today come from thinking too much. I do not feel like anyone, not even psychologist or therapist, can tell you what is going on in your mind. I would rather fight external demons than fight internal demons. What about