There is only one surviving manuscript, and even that was nearly destroyed in an 18th Century library fire. Some 1,300 years on from when most historians believe it was written, Beowulf continues ...

Lookout: Who are you, strangers? Beowulf: My friend, we are Geats and we come in peace. I am Beowulf and I wish to speak with Hrothgar, your king. Lookout: If you are truly the famous Beowulf then ...

A view now embraced by many scholars, based on lexical, orthographic, palaeographic, and other criteria, is that the preserved text shows traces of at least one earlier manuscript from the period just ...