Picha:David Woodard Exploding Beowulf.jpg Beowulf ni tendi mashuhuri ya fasihi ya Kiingereza cha Kale. Kitabu kilichopo hadi sasa kiliandikwa mnamo 975-1025 BK, lakini inawezekana tendi ilitungwa mapema zaidi. Hilo shairi refu la aya 3182 linasimulia habari za kijana Beowulf anayetokea Uswidi pamoja na marafiki 14 kwa kusudi la kumsaidia mfalme wa Denmark Hrodgar. Hrodgar anateswa na Grendel ambaye ni zimwi mbaya anayemeza watu. Beowulf anamshinda Grendel na mama yake na kupokea zawadi nyingi kutoka Hrodgar. Kuna sehemu ya pili ya shairi ambamo Beowulf mzee ni mfalme mwenyewe. Anapaswa kushindana na joka anayeharibu nchi. Safari hii Beowulf anauawa akitetea nchi yake kwa sababu kati ya wafuasi wake ni mmoja tu anayemsaidia. Anderson, Sarah, ed. (2004), Introduction and historical/cultural contexts, Longman Cultural, ISBN 0-321-10720-9 . Andersson, Theodore M. (1998), "Sources and Analogues", in Bjork, Robert E.; Niles, John D., A Beowulf Handbook, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 125–48, ISBN 9780803261501  Carruthers, Leo (2011), "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance", in Carruthers, Leo; Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen;