What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...

Beowulf had an unusual name. It means bee-wolf. Some old English people (Saxons) called the bear a bee-wolf. A bear’s face was dog-like, or wolf-like, and it often nosed into beehives to eat honey.

Young orphan Beowulf is adopted by Hrothgar, thane of the Huskatil tribe in Herot. After years away fighting as a mercenary Beowulf returns to find that Hrothgar is dead, having names his wife Rheda ...

It took 54 years, but the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania has its copy of Beowulf back. It was checked out in January 1969. And since the library is fine-free now, there was no charge. Good ...

The action you watch on screen in Beowulf certainly looks great, sounds great, and is truly enthralling, but it's a vastly different filmmaking experience that took years to develop into the version ...

Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem's meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers ...

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 ...

Erik is an entertainment and video game writer whose work has appeared in major outlets including Forbes, The Atlantic, National Review, and Mother Jones. He has covered the entertainment industry, ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance – the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th century library fire – has travelled across 1000years to lodge in our imagination like ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...