“It is better for each man that he avenge his friend than to mourn him much” a line oft repeated from this seminal work of English language literature. The epic of Beowulf is one of the most translated works of fiction and the king himself is an icon of Germanic legend, but there was a time before he was stitched into the fabric of Saxon history. Prior to being immortalized as a great king of myth, Beowulf was a traveling warrior; a hero to people preyed upon by great monsters of yore. In this volume of Word of Mouth, see King Beowulf as his subjects did: a beacon of hope in an unforgiving world.