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Beowulf contains the exact characterization of how the A/S depicted heroes ideally. Their belief in a strong, honorable man that is welling to take on any objective placed in front of them. The ideal hero is a man above men and recognized by all aspects of society. They are summoned whenever help is needed and they are a role model to everyone.

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my hands
Alone shall fight for me, struggle for life
Against the monster.

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the monster’s scorn of men
Is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none.
Nor will I

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I, alone and with the help of my men,
May purge all evil from this hall

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They have seen my strength for themselves,
Have watched me rise from the darkness of war,
Dripping with my enemies’ blood. I drove
Five great giants into chains, chased
All of that race from the earth. I swam
In the blackness of night, hunting monsters
Out of the ocean, and killing them one
By one;

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he knows of your noble birth
And that having come to him from over the open
Sea you have come bravely and are welcome.

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None
Of the wise ones regretted his going, much
As he was loved by the Geats: the omens were good,
And they urged the adventure on

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Beowulf, Higlac’s
Follower and the strongest of the Geats—greater
And stronger than anyone anywhere in this world—