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What have they done to Beowulf, everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later?

In "Beowulf & Grendel," the first epic poem in the English language receives a rendition that's about half as good and half as harsh as it needed to be. Icelandic-shot version of the legendary ...

Beowulf has the arms, pecs and trunk-like thighs of Brad Pitt in peak “Troy” form, but facially he vaguely resembles the English character actor Ray Winstone, who provides Beowulf’s voice.

Beowulf follows her to her lair in the lake. He kills her too and finds Grendel’s corpse, whose head he takes back with him. The Danes gather again for more drinking.

Maria Dahvana Headley’s breathtakingly audacious and idiomatically rich Beowulf: A New Translation is a breath of iconoclastically fresh air blowing through the old tale’s stuffy mead-hall ...

KS2 English. Beowulf - Part 2. The Anglo-Saxon story of Beowulf told in 3 short animated episodes for KS2 pupils. Resources to support study of Beowulf. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

So Beowulf dons his armor and seeks out Grendel's mother in her lair, beneath a fetid lake filled with water like acid and so deep no human has ever seen the bottom. Extra History - European ...