The first HERO

Heroes are very popular and different now from the ones we had one hundread years ago. Nowadays we have the "super heroes",the most populars heroes that exist,like Superman and Batman. But have you ever wondered which was the very first heroe that existed? 
BEOWULF is the answer.
But who is Beowulf,and where does this heroe came from?
   Is an epic poem. An epic poem is a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. Before the development of writing, epic poems were memorized and played an important part in maintaining a record of the great deeds and history of a culture. Beowulf may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of old english literature,(Old english is the oldest historical form of the english language,for example The nouns hæte, ‘heat’, and wæta, ‘moisture’) 
If you want to know the story of the oldest hero that existed you can read it here: 
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html
Is really cool to have the oldest poem in the whole world right? now you,with your computer,cellphone,tablet or whatever you have,you can read something that thousands of years ago only some people could hear by the "Scops"

(scop)

,(who where both poets and performers of the anglo-saxon period ) because it was transmitted orally,and thanks to monk (who wrote it in old english,the oldest form of the language we know as english) is that we have the poem.

Sources:
http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/epic-poem-39
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984f/images/Beowulf/oldbeowulf.gif
http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/images/thumb/c/cf/44199_C1_bard.jpg/180px-44199_C1_bard.jpg