His passion for poetry began 80 years ago when he was introduced to Beowulf in high school. Fascinated by the Old English words, he eventually obtained a Ph.D. at UT-Austin in the prosody of ...

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Photograph by Ullstein Bild, Cordon Press For many scholars, one of the most exciting aspects of the Sutton Hoo burial is its similarity to that depicted in the Old English epic poem, Beowulf.

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Some scholars now suggest that an account in the Old English Beowulf comes closer to the archaeological evidence in many Viking ship burials and the spectacle that would have surrounded them than ...

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That’s a striking change, but modest compared to what’s happened among teen-agers: the National Center for Education ...

English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism, English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism Publisher London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul Collection ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...