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 ...

Hwæt! Almost 90 years after JRR Tolkien translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic story is to be published for the first time in an edition which his ...

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Debate over whether poem was written by multiple authors or one has raged for years Beowulf, the epic poem of derring-do and monsters, was composed by a single author, research suggests, pouring cold ...

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 ...

Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

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The poem has been read in classrooms around the world and has influenced countless works of literature, but the identity of the author of Beowulf remains unknown. Scholars can't agree on when exactly ...