<u>Beowolf is an epic written in Old English about a hero who travels to faraway lands on an adventure to defeat a big creature of which he is destined, This journey is his struggle against mortality.</u>
<u>The whole traveled journey plays into the motif of a quest or a voyage</u> which is integral to travel literature of the early days and as such is a significant part of the body of work that became to be classified as travel literature later on in time.
<span>B. The Readers' Guide is a basic index, while the other resources are full databases allowing access to actual articles.
The Reader's Guide only dates back to 1983 and only contains works that are considered popular. the total number of works within the reader's guide numbers only slightly higher than 450.</span>