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 ...

The Beowulf manuscript above is thought to be approximately 1,000 years old. The British Library There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according ...

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 ...

LONDON — I keep trying not to squint. But the light, an eerie purple, is very low. And there's a piece of heavy glass between my eyes and the object.

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf ...

The Voynich Manuscript has been reliably dated to mere decades before the invention of the printing press, so it's likely that its peculiar blend of plagiarism and curation was a dying format.