It runs to more than 3,000 lines of verse and is the longest epic poem in Old English. Now, Beowulf - which documents the eponymous hero's battles with a monster and a dragon - will be made into a ...

If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...

Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and, yes, ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

The Old English poem will be turned into a 13-part epic drama Wikimedia Commons The heroic medieval epic of Beowulf is to be turned into a 13-part ITV drama. The poem contains 3,182 lines written in ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf will be published in May A translation of the Old English poem Beowulf by author JRR Tolkien is to be published for the first time, nearly nine decades after it ...

The English we speak is an Anglo-Saxon language, unlike the Latinate ones (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), which are also called Romance languages. English is closer to Germanic. The form we ...

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 ...