"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades ...
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 ...
Like many other liberal arts students of the time, I first encountered “Beowulf” in a survey course of English Literature in college. Appreciated as the earliest poem in an English language all but ...
Over 1,000 years ago, an anonymous Germanic writer gave us the most enduring poem in the English language. This poem was “Beowulf,”an epic spanning over 3,000 lines of alliterating Old English.
A kingdom is assaulted by a monster and a hero sweeps in with his army to defend the realm. Not the premise of a new Netflix fantasy series. Instead, a plot synopsis of the Old English epic Beowulf.
I enjoyed Stephen T. Asma’s essay on Beowulf, but I had a few reservations (“Never Mind Grendel. Can Beowulf Conquer the 21st-Century Guilt Trip?,” The Chronicle Review, December 7). One problem is ...
The action you watch on screen in Beowulf certainly looks great, sounds great, and is truly enthralling, but it's a vastly different filmmaking experience that took years to develop into the version ...
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