"“Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good.”
(Beowulf, Old English epic)"

This is the tragedy of courage.

Once he tore monsters from the dark with his bare hands.

Now age has settled into his bones, yet Beowulf answers the dragon’s fire as if youth still burned inside him.

Far from others, alone and left to face an impossible challenge, he still ventures to his own death.

Friend will come to his aid, but only when it's already too late.

This Beowulf is not the laughing champion of earlier days, but the king who walks alone into his last fight.

A statement that courage does not always save a man, but it can decide how he falls.