The sea in Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poemsIs the sea mentioned only in Beowulf or is it a common element in all poetry Anglo-Saxon? Is the sea described in the same way as in Beowulf? In Beowulf, references to the sea follow one another. When Scyld died, "his people took him to the sea, which was his last request", where he drifted into the afterlife on a "ship of death". In the great land, Beowulf, a “cunning sailor” and his men “spurred the well-armed ship on the voyage they had dreamed of” to save the Danes from Grendel. “From far beyond the breadth of the sea,” came the Geats, “brave men who ride the waves.” In his welcoming speech, Hrothgar recalls that the hero's father "sought us Danes above the crashing waves," and his warrior Unferth remembers that the hero "struggled with Brecca [young companion] off the sea ​​in a swimming contest... risking his life in the deep water... married the sea, gliding through the boiling waves... toiled seven nights in the sea." A Dane "showed every courtesy" to Beowulf, for “in those days a sailor could expect that.” King Hrothgar and Queen Welhtheow gave rich gifts "to those who were on the mead bench and who made the sea voyage." In the episode Finnburh, Hengest had to spend the winter months with Finn because "he couldn't steer his ring-prow ship on the cold sea". “Guthlaf and Oslaf spoke of their grief after the sea voyage.” The Danes carried Hildeburh, the Danish-born queen, “across the sea.” “The surging waters” received Beowulf as he swam after Grendel's mother. During the battle, Hrothgar and his retinue looked upon the "turbulent water." Finally Beowulf returned, “protector of sailors, good swimmer, on land”. Hrothgar, I... in the middle of paper... through bodies of water: it is much warmer to feel the goodness of the Lord than this life of death which is lent to us on earth. . . The sailor concludes with a rather long prose exhortation to his listeners to place their hopes in the sky. The characters in the Old English poem Beowulf certainly rejoiced in the seas. From this essay we can understand that their attitude towards the sea is both contradictory and comparable to that expressed in other Old English poems.BIBLIOGRAPHYAlexander, Michael, translator. Early English Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Chickering, Howell D. Beowulf A bilingual edition. New York: Anchor Books, 1977. TheSeafarer. In The Early English Poems, translated by Michael Alexander. New York: books about penguins, 1991.