The first known work of prose in British literature was Beowulf, a poem written in Old English sometime between the eighth and tenth centuries. The poem is about how a hero defeats an ogre named Grendel. In the end, Grendel's mother finds her son killed, and then she too is killed by Beowulf's dragon. I have been looking at some of the other texts that may be considered "prose" before Beowulf was written, such as Hildebert's Shepard of Herdford, also dating to around 750 A.D.
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