https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/seek-if-you-should-dare-heroism-and-extreme-environments-old-english-poetry
This talk looks at Beowulf, probably the best known of all Old English poems, as well as at other examples including the representation of Saint Guthlac, an Anglo-Saxon saint who battled against demons in the Fens of East Anglia in pursuit of an extreme form of self-renunciation.
