Anglo-Saxon values and culture in Beowulf. DOI: 10.13140 RG.2.2.34738.04809. Licence. CC BY - 0. Authors: Dana, PDF, This article reconsiders Michael Lapidge's influential argument regarding the Beowulf archetype in light of recent texts. Find, read and cite all the research you've done. However, Beowulf focuses his attention on his three greatest exploits: the fights against Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon. Each of the fights was unique. The demon Grendel was perhaps the most Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf's values and culture. In summer, a few miles from the windy Suffolk coast, at Sutton Hoo, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery: the magnificent intact.