Tajos tālajos laikos, kad dzīvoja gan briesmoņi, gan varoņi - varenais kareivis Beovulfs dodas pāri jūrai, lai atbrīvotu karaļa Hrotgara pārvaldīto Dānijas karalisti no nežēlīgā dēmona Grendela. Nogalinot to, Beovulfs izraisa dēmona mātes naidu.
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.
Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages. Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.
