Starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgíƒ ¥rd, and Sarah Polley. Rated 14A. Originally composed anonymously sometime between the middle of the eighth and the beginning of the 10th century in allusive ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beowulf is the first significant work written in English, or in what passes for English: a 3000-line epic poem composed - in ...

It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented Beowulf as a ...

Real life and fiction became a bit muddied last month when Jessica Jelliffe was playing Grendel’s mother in “Beowulf — A Thousand Years of Baggage” at the Adelaide Festival in Australia. She was right ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — So what’s the big deal with “Beowulf?” Even most English majors would be hard-pressed to give you a convincing answer. After listening to Seamus Heaney read his acclaimed ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas, Wichita survey, 1994. Image on file. unsigned The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of ...

LITTLE ROCK — "Iam ripper! ... tearer! ... slasher! ..." is how the hero Beowulf says hello in the current movie version of the ancient poem. "Beowulf," the poem ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The 2007 uncanny valley version of Beowulf hit Hulu this month, forcing us to ponder the legacy of Anglo-Saxon poetry, the politics of the medieval mead hall, and most ...

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 ...

The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.