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 ...

The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis, whose ...

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. How ...

To solicit from a medievalist a review of Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf is to pick a quarrel unlikely to be evaded. The eminent Cambridge classicist Richard Bentley famously put down Alexander Pope’s ...

Translation has shaped the lore of Grendel's Mother as a fearsome yet misunderstood figure. The big baddie in Beowulf isn't actually the monster Grendel, but Grendel's Mother. Who maybe isn't a ...

A new live-action take on the tale of Beowulf is in development, and the project has assembled a very impressive cast. We've seen a number of animated and live-action adaptations of the ancient Danish ...

Afew weeks ago, during a visit to the doctor, I laughed out loud when the online check-in portal suggested Old English as my language preference, and not only because I happened to have with me Maria ...

The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.

Grendel is an upcoming epic fantasy drama film starring Jeff Bridges and Dave Bautista. The plot revolves around Grendel as he contemplates his life as a monster and his largely antagonistic ...