After the Grendel and the Bog Witch incident, Beowulf was ready to kick back and relax... and he did! He was made king of an ...

In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. The first thing I need to tell you is that you have to ...

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 ...

Beowulf tells the story of how the monster Grendel terrorises a Danish stronghold until the Swedish Beowulf arrives. The young Beowulf kills Grendel, ripping off his arm in the process, and then ...

Beowulf seemed immediate and relevant to the 12-year-old me in a way that much else I had read did not. When Beowulf lay sleepless in Heorot, I understood the fear of the dark.

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.

Beowulf is a third-person action game in which you stomp all over enemies and bosses as the buff, angry, and eponymous Beowulf, while commanding your band of merry thanes via a small selection of ...

“Beowulf will bridge the gap between hardcore gamers, literary aficionados and anyone else looking for a riveting and fun few hours. The game will be for players 14 and up.” Advertisement ...

In the Beowulf legend – which is believed to have influenced some aspects of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and was turned into a 150 million dollar Hollywood film six years ago ...

The tale of Beowulf is thought to have been written sometime between 700 and 1000 a.d. (Image credit: Katomi/CC BY-NC 2.0) Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) ...