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The first Beowulf Adventure is the Hermit's Sanctuary, which Handiwork made available as a free download on Drive Thru RPG. You get some pre-generated characters, a lite version of the rules and a very nice scenario. This was created as a teaser for their kickstarter and like everything else connected with the game was nicely produced.
This adventure is a bit Agatha Christie with Trolls. You hero (or in our case party of heroes0 goes to the aid of an isolated island sanctuary beset my a recently appearing monster. The party had great fun working though what is essentially a looked room mystery. The socail interactions with NOCs are nicely thought out. For instance the order that you approach the NOCt matters as success with one chaacter may lead to a better (or wrse) chance of success with another. They had to peice together bits of the mystery from the NPC's stories, ancient standing stones and other evidence.
This was my first experience as DM in 40 years, and my first experience with DnD 5e so I was rusty and made lots of errors. I was too easy on my party, but it was fun with a good end result. They solved the mystery, killed the Monster, sorted out a few things with the NPCs and sailed away. Another weekends work for the Dark Age adventurer!