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How many years does Beowulf rule the Geats peacefully?
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Beowulf
Beowulf preparing to cut off the head of the monster Grendel, illustration from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, 1910.
In the Old English poem Beowulf, the hero rules the Geats peacefully for 50 years before his final conflict with the dragon.1