Actually, I don't remember in which area Beowulf is written to have lived. He travelled to...Jutland, right? It's been too long.

Beowulf is a good story, a great one, even. The same goes for most of the Celtic and Germanic mythologies, and Gilgamesh as well. I own one epic myself: Blin' Hary's Wallace, an epic telling of the exploits of Scotland's national hero, William Wallace. Of course, it's a more updated version than the one written in the 1400s, but the translator spared no detail, keeping the descriptions of gore within the text. Hardly graphic by today's visual standards, but it sure makes the Wallace seem much more big and badass after reading how he'd just torn some Saxon's lungs out.