That famous work, "Beowulf," is now one of the anchors of Old English literature.It's unclear who wrote the poem; because certain sections are seemingly disconnected, some scholars have suggested ...

But “Beowulf” translators have always taken liberties with the poem—in part because the ... As Headley notes, the Old English word “fingrum” is often translated as “claws,” but ...

Like its more famous contemporary, Beowulf, we do not know how old ... How imagining our own extinction may save us The poems from the Old English period survive today because of several books ...

“The original reads, at least in some places, like Old English freestyle ... s suddenly remembered a poem he memorized at boarding school.” And so Headley’s Beowulf is a rambling ...

One way Headley connects the poem with modern readers is through language, mixing in some contemporary words into an Old English text. “Beowulf” famously opens with a storyteller wanting to ...

an Old English epic poem so dramatic it has even spawned a computer-animated action fantasy film. Yet academics have slapped a ‘trigger warning’ on Beowulf, cautioning students that they may ...

Yes, this is the Old English poem most of us read in high school and ... before the monster shows up and wreaks havoc, with Beowulf appearing shortly afterward. “We are geeks!

It remains to speak of the literary monument which in importance as well as in length overtops all else in poetry that Old English days have bequeathed to us ; I mean the Beowulf. The reader is ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later?

In his solo rendition of "Beowulf" on Wednesday ... a large chunk of the text in Old English. At Tanglewood, he'll offer approximately the first third of the epic poem. A translation into modern ...

The new poem adopts a similar alliterative meter, and its title (and pseudonymous pen name, "Nat Whilk") are playful Beowulf/Old English references, most likely for the benefit of Ida Gordon ...