What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...

The long Hwaet! is over for scholars and Tolkien fans as the Lord of the Rings author’s translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem is published after 88 years. The latest episode in Peter Jackson’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's more to J.R.R. Tolkien than wizards and hobbits. The author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was also an Oxford ...

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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, ...

Beowulf is a 3,000-line story told in verse, written some time around the turn of the first millennium, and is one of the oldest written examples of Old English. The story chronicles the quests of its ...