In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

Beowulf, mighty warrior of the Geats, ... When Scyld dies, he is laid out in a vessel stacked with weapons and treasure, and set adrift once more. Away he floats.

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.

The town is close to the world famous Anglo-Saxon burial site of Sutton Hoo, where a ship filled with treasures was unearthed in 1939. ... Beowulf Festival runs from Thursday 3 May to Monday 7 May.

Beowulf returns home and becomes king after his uncle and cousin are cut down by the Swedes. He rules for 50 years, until a new enemy emerges--a dragon whose treasure has been looted and who burns ...

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Maria Dahvana Headley’s breathtakingly audacious and idiomatically rich Beowulf: A New Translation is a breath of iconoclastically fresh air blowing through the old tale’s stuffy mead-hall ...