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. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf down ...
The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...
Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. Tolkien himself, who translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, called the story ...
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 ...
It might be based on an ancient saga, but Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf" is ushering in a very modern era of filmmaking. By Debra Kaufman, The Associated Press It might be based on an ancient saga, but ...