‘Beowulf’wields mighty sword for Esquire channel By David Wiegand , Assistant Managing Editor, Arts and Entertainment Updated Jan 19, 2016 1:01 p.m. Ed Speleers as Slean in “Beowulf.” ...

P eter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are incredible masterpieces of detail, serving both ...

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 ...

Zemeckis’s version, as we’ll see, departs significantly from the original, but the visual fireworks certainly strum the strings of thumos, or spiritedness, during the action sequences.

NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the epic poem Beowulf is the perfect bathtime read.

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?

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 ...

After Unferth’s sword fails Beowulf, he tries unsuccessfully to attack her with his bare hands. Suddenly, a ray of light—the narrator implies that this is God’s doing—shines upon a nearby ...

To claim a free Knight’s Sword, go west of Troskowitz and reach Zhelejov Wagoner’s Inn. From here, travel northwest across the bridge, and then take the road north.

The first comic based on Beowulf, called "Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," in 1975, for instance, illustrates Grendel's mother as a weak, wolf-like humanoid. She doesn't even get to battle Beowulf.

KS2 English. Beowulf - Part 2. The Anglo-Saxon story of Beowulf told in 3 short animated episodes for KS2 pupils. Beowulf has defeated Grendel, but now he must fight with the monster's mother. BBC ...