Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and ...

Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and, yes, ...

Monstrous! Old English classic Beowulf gets slapped with trigger warning as university dons fear students may be distressed to read about monsters.

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 ...

We were required to take a semester of Old English (and we knew that didn’t mean Chaucer!), to be followed by a semester reading “Beowulf” in the original Anglo-Saxon.

For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. Her new adaptation is told from the perspective of Grendel's mother.

Like its more famous contemporary, Beowulf, we do not know how old the poems that make up The Wanderer are. A manuscript of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf believed to date from the 10th century.

Left: An 88-year-old translation of ‘Beowulf’ will soon join J.R.R. Tolkien’s published bibliography. Photo of "Beowulf" manuscript courtesy of Carson-Newman College. Go Deeper.

Beowulf tells of a young warrior, Beowulf (Ray Winstone), who emerges out of a raging storm in a Viking ship to rescue a Danish kingdom ruled by old King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and his ...

It may be the summer’s ideal alternative to all those eardrum-exploding movie blockbusters, or your continuing struggle to hold Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon upright when your hands are ...