Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in ... says that the poem has a very deliberate pace. "It's bit like an old-fashioned dance step ...

Beowulf is one of the most important texts in Old English and is believed to date ... The author is unknown. The poem consists of 3,182 lines and exists in a single copy, housed in the British ...

The animal motifs on the helmet, as well as other artifacts found at Sutton Hoo, have led archaeologists to link the burial with the epic poem "Beowulf," an Old English tale that connects East ...