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? Director ...

Heroic tales of conquest over malignant foes in the face of incredible odds always reverberate in the imagination. Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries in ...

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...

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 imagination ...

I teach a class at Bard College and Columbia University called “Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness.” We mostly read about ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who's celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

It seems unfair to call any iteration of the epic “Beowulf” derivative, because “Beowulf” pretty much started it all. The 3,182-line tale of a Scandinavian hero keeping the world safe from monsters ...

One of the oldest, longest and most influential works in the history of Old English will soon be experienced through the eyes of one of the world’s most beloved fantasy authors. J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

From Samuel Harden Church's Beowulf. From years of use, people know this: Twitter can be a lot of noise. But sometimes, to get a tweet just right, to make it fit, I stop and consider the language. In ...