Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey. Today we’re going to take a look at one particular Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey from way, way, way long ago ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — So what’s the big deal with “Beowulf?” Even most English majors would be hard-pressed to give you a convincing answer. After listening to Seamus Heaney read his acclaimed ...

“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does translate well ...

Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf down ...

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Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our imagination ...

Lookout: Who are you, strangers? Beowulf: My friend, we are Geats and we come in peace. I am Beowulf and I wish to speak with Hrothgar, your king. Lookout: If you are truly the famous Beowulf then I ...

The real-life medieval society which spawned the epic poem Beowulf is coming to light in a series of ground-breaking discoveries centred around the royal court of sixth-century Denmark. The poem, one ...