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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Headley notes, the Old English word “fingrum” is often translated as “claws,” but Grendel’s mother uses a knife during her fight with Beowulf, and “wielding a knife while also posse ...

The hero of Beowulf dispatches the monstrous figure of Grendel – who is described in Old English as ‘unhælu’, or ‘infirm’. Students at Imperial College London are fighting the ...

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. It wasn’t easy, ...

And this week the focus is on the longest extant epic poem in Old English, Beowulf. And to help us to understand what 'Old English' means here—in relation not just to the history of the language ...

"Beowulf," an Old English text that has tormented generations of students, is one of them. Thankfully, director Robert Zemeckis' screen adaptation of "Beowulf" is considerably less difficult to ...

It might not seem like it, but making “Beowulf” into a movie is a daunting task. When taken from its Old English, “Beowulf” takes the literal translation, story that ought not to be adapted for screen ...

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?