The only extant manuscript of Beowulf, the oldest English verse poem, is on display at the British Library, but few scholars can examine the text firsthand. Electronic Beowulf, a recently released ...

The British Library has the original manuscript of Beowulf that was published in the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. It is widely considered the best poem ever ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...

"First published by D. S. Brewer, Cambridge 1985"--Title page verso. "National Library of Canada cataloguing in publication ... First ed. published: Cmabridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, ...