Plot Beowulf sails to Denmark with a band of violent warriors and kills the monster Grendel who has been troubling the Danish King Hrothgar.Beowulf, which is considered to be the earliest epic of the English people unrolls before us the picture of the heroic age of Germanic antiquity, and the rise and fall of Danish and Geatish races are recorded in great detail.Organization of The Church  The main event of the 7th century was the conversion of the Barbarians (Anglo-Saxons) to Christianity partly by the efforts of St. Augustine and his associates and partly by monks from Ireland.Grendel's mother, seeking revenge, meets the same fate Beowulf reigns for fifty years as the king of the Geats.