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A manuscript of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf believed to date from the 10th century. This, the only surviving ancient copy of the story is kept in the British Museum. ( Hulton Archive/Getty ...
Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our ...
The poem is set in Scandinavia and Beowulf, from Geatland (now southern Sweden), pledges to Danish king Hrothgar that he will fight the monster Grendel who has been preying on local inhabitants.
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.
That's nothing to what Beowulf did to me, about 20 years ago. He forced me to memorize the full beon and wesan forms of the Anglo-Saxon verb "to be," even in the preterite subjunctive.
The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more violence ...
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?
Secrets of Beowulf revealed: Relics discovered at Danish feasting hall which featured in Britain's oldest epic poem. Excavations at Lejre in Denmark reveal remains of hundreds of animals ...
Will adaptation of epic poem Beowulf be the new Game of Thrones? ITV set to turn 3,000 line Old English verse into 13-part drama full of 'epic fights and battles' ...
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