Alexis Fajardo brings something new to the ancient tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf’s battle against the monster known as Grendel. “Beowulf,” an epic poem written roughly a thousand years ago in ...
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 ...