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Who would win in a fight between Achilles and Beowulf?

>> No.16629072

>>16629069
Achilles on account of being literally indestructible?

>> No.16629077

>>16629069
Achilles is more skilled. Beowulf is a brawler relying on brute strength. There's the invulnerability thing too.

>> No.16629096

>>16629077
beowulf's brute strength is not to be underestimated. he fought sea monsters bare handed as a child. he could probably keep knocking achilles on his ass until he chanced upon his weakspot.

>> No.16629292

>>16629069
me desu

>> No.16629329

>>16629292
based

>> No.16629354
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16629354

>tfw seeing for the first time the scene where achilles walks alone to the gates of troy and keeps screaming HECTOR until they open the gates to let him out so achilles can kill him

>> No.16629813

>>16629292
1v1 on rust senpai

>> No.16629849

>>16629069
>Beowulf
kek

Anglos are idiots at war. The only reason they exist is thanks to the slavs.

>> No.16629953

>>16629849
>t. american

>> No.16630348

>>16629069
Achilles gets God buffs so...

>> No.16630357

>>16629096
This is a good take.

Also Beowulf has better armour and stronger weapons.

>> No.16630360

>>16629849
based complete and utter retard

>> No.16630370

>>16629849
ok but Beowulf wasn't Anglo.

>> No.16630376

>>16629849
This whole post doesn't make any sense.

>> No.16630410

>>16629069
Beowulf has God on his side so he wins

>> No.16630416

>>16629069
Beowulf has weapons of the finest steel while Achilles is a bronze metallet.

>> No.16630424

>>16630360
>>16630370
>>16630376
butthurt anglos

brush yer fuckin teef lads

>> No.16630472

Since Achilles was said to be invulnerable due to immersion in the River Styx, advantage Achilles. However, this might be to blows of weapons, not grappling, so perhaps Beowulf, who is said to have the strength of 30 men, would have the advantage, given fleet-footed Achilles would allow himself to be caught. Given the Scandinavian tradition of "flyting" or ritual exchange of insults (see the Unferth exchange in Heorot) and Achilles' temper, Beowulf might well be able to taunt Achilles into a wrestling competition, whuch Beowulf would win IF Achilles is only invulnerable to weapons, not generally invulnerable.

>> No.16630480

>>16629354
That's from a film. Have you read Homer?

>> No.16631007

>>16630424
Beowulf is a Nord

>> No.16631057

>>16629069
achy

>> No.16631075

>>16629069
Goku

>> No.16631179

>>16629069
They're both fictional so my money is on whoever writes the book first and manages to sell it.

>> No.16631201

>>16629072
>>16629077
Iliad Achilles wasn’t invulnerable. He was injured twice during the war in places not his heel. The invulnerability thing was a later invention.

>> No.16631342
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16631342

instead of Beowulf, how about another "invincible" mythological hero with a weak point?

>> No.16631382

>>16631075
/end thread

Kakaroto every single time.

>> No.16631835

>>16631075
>>16631382
Weeaboos please, we’re discussing literature here

>> No.16632441

>>16629072
He got fucked by a river

>> No.16633913

>>16629354
Paris was a pussy

>> No.16633951

>>16629354
The movie sucked

>> No.16633961
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16633961

Could either of them beat Gilgamesh?

>> No.16634039

>>16633961
Please, Conan could wreck this guy

>> No.16634045

>>16629069
Odin

>> No.16634087

>>16631835
Stating the obvious how very Yamaha of you.

>> No.16634091

>>16629069
achilles would have a hard time fighting beowulf while patroclus sucks his cock

>> No.16634348

>>16629069
Sigurðr is stronger than both of them combined

>> No.16634369

>>16631342
Why was Brunhild such a bitch?

>> No.16634377

>>16633961
Lol no.

>>16634348
How? I find nothing in the Volsung's Saga or Nibelungenlied that would make me say that.

>> No.16634392

>>16629069
Homer? More like homo

>> No.16634565

>>16629069
Anyone know what's the best translation of Beowulf?

>> No.16634602

>>16629069
This is an amazing thread. Reminds me of the old days "who would win Robocop or Boba Fett" "no muh indiana jones would KILL han solo (t. retard)" these are basically the same thing as what this thread is.

>> No.16634640

>>16629069
A literal manlet twink or a tall, hairy, muscular northern bear?

>> No.16634652

>>16634565
Seamus Heaney

>> No.16634655

Achilles would obviously fuck Beowulf up, what kind of question is this? Beowulf just gonna accidentally stab Achilles' heel? Yeah right.

>> No.16635435

>>16630472
Yeah its very interesting

>> No.16635442

>>16634045
What if a fight between Odin and Zeus ?

>> No.16635738

>>16635442
Odin got eaten by a wolf, Zeus mogs him.

>> No.16635752

>>16629069
Achilles is superior, Beowulf is gay.
I am Scandinavian and part British but still I can't even pretend to prefer Beowulf to even the lowest of the Greeks. If Achilles, awesome as he is, is clearly superior.

>> No.16635765

>>16630472
Achilles loses by heel hook

>> No.16635783

>>16629069
>Hello Patroclus, my COUSIN
what did they mean by this?

>> No.16635895

>>16635738
>Odin got eaten by a wolf
That’s what happens in Ragnarok?

>> No.16635902

>>16629953
No one in America likes Slavs and we're all descended from Anglos to boot. What the fuck are you on about?

>> No.16635916

>>16629069
My oc desu

>> No.16635919

>>16634602
stop having fun guys

waaah waaah

me so smart
me dick so haaardddddd...noooooooo

cry moar bitch

>> No.16636371

>>16635919
I think he was being sincere

>> No.16637684

>>16630424
Beowulf is a Geat, not an *nglo

>> No.16637688

>>16629069
Achilles

>> No.16637697

>>16630472
>>16635765
kek'd

>> No.16637747

>>16635738
Odin chooses to get eaten by a wolf that eats the fucking sun.

>>16630472
Achilles' indestructibility is a later Roman invention, in Homer Zeus just wills it so that Achilles is never struck. Even then, he doesn't die from getting shot in the heal, he dies from the poison on Paris's arrow. Yahweh never directly helps Beowulf unless we count him putting the Giant's Sword in Grendel's Mother's den (which she might have just had lying around anyways). So, Beowulf's feats are all his own. Achilles throws boulders around, but Achilles rips Grendel's fucking arm off and swam the ocean in a storm in his armor while fighting sea monsters. Achilles, however, fights a river and while, not winning by his own ability (Hephaestus has to help him), does hold his own. He also runs around the entirety of Troy like, eight times chasing Hermes. Achilles wracks up the highest named-foe kill count, and Beowulf never uses a weapon successfully against a human or human-like foe (technically, he and Wiglaf kill the Dragon with swords, but that's not a 1v1 fight).

So, I'd have to say that if it comes down to a wrestling match with no divine intervention, Beowulf would win. If they only fight with weapons, I think Achilles could win, but it's still a tossup.

>>16631007
At the time this took place German, Anglo-Saxon, and Old Norse were all mutually intelligible dialects of the same language.

>> No.16637759

>>16637747
>Achilles rips Grendel's fucking arm off
BEOWULF, excuse me.

>> No.16637829

>>16634565
translating it yourself from your extensive knowledge of your ancestors tongue of course, you are English right anon?

>> No.16637992
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16637992

Rostam would btfo both. Dude defeated a giant, a dragon, a witch, and demons. He stopped an elephant raging through the palace when he was five.

>> No.16638013

>>16637747
>Odin chooses to get eaten by a wolf that eats the fucking sun.
cringe, why is even the sun so limp dicked in Norse mythology that even a wolf can eat it?

>> No.16638020

>>16637747
>Odin chooses to get eaten by a wolf that eats the fucking sun.
based, how even a wolf is so brass balled in Norse mythology that it can even eat the sun!

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16638029

>>16637992
Rama would fuck them up too.

>> No.16638143

>>16634565
Heaney is the one that most classes use now I think

>> No.16639016

>>16638029
>Indian fanfiction

>> No.16639031

>>16637747
Good post, Achilles is probably too much with a weapon