The partners' one-hour adaptation focuses on the first third of the poem, in which the hero Beowulf does battle with the evil monster Grendel.

The hero Beowulf even appears as an invader.

It is generally agreed that these were the same as the Geatas, the people of the hero Beowulf in England's national epic, Beowulf.

The hero Beowulf was his nephew.

The poem tells the story of the legendary Geatish hero Beowulf, who is the title character.

Despite having never ridden a horse prior to portraying Buliwyf, a character based loosely upon the mythical hero Beowulf, Kulich naturally took to the role.

After the monster Grendel is slain by the hero Beowulf, Grendel's mother attacks the mead-hall Heorot to avenge his death.

The Geatish (Swedish) hero Beowulf defends the royal hall and its residents from the demonic Grendel.

Beowulf gives the fuller account of Hrothgar and how the Geatish hero Beowulf visited him to free his people from the trollish creature Grendel.

It has been the matter of some debate whether the hero Beowulf could have the same origin as Hroðulf's berserker Bödvar Bjarki, who appears in Scandinavian sources.