Last year I was asked to teach a unit of narrative poetry on Beowulf. Only the original translation in olde english is in a poem format, so I had to go through the texts and choose suitable quotes and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Tolkien's version of the Old English epic, along with selections from his Oxford lectures and invented texts showcase a rare mix of linguistic scholarship and literary imagination "FRODO LIVES!" I ...

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance – the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th century library fire – has travelled across 1000years to lodge in our imagination like ...