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 ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang.

Why is the legendary saga of Beowulf still so influential more than 1,000 years after it was composed?

‘Beowulf’: Film Review 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 ...

‘Beowulf’ ushers in hybrid filmmaking technique It might be based on an ancient saga, but Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf" is ushering in a very modern era of filmmaking.

Robert Zemeckis ’s Beowulf is getting a “director’s cut” version as part of its February 26th DVD release. I’m wondering if this is just an excuse to insert a few extra frames of footage ...

Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), is hitting stores next week. A straight-up action title, Beowulf has you starring as the title character ...

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 ...

Witness the legendary first encounter between Beowulf and Grendel, a monster that terrorized Heorot’s great hall. This is the ...

Heroic tales of conquest over malignant foes in the face of incredible odds always reverberate in the imagination. Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries ...