Beowulf, mighty warrior of the Geats, hearing that some neighboring Danes are being terrorized by a misshapen antiman called Grendel, crews a ship with up-for-it countrymen and sails to the rescue.

And so Headley’s Beowulf is a rambling, boastful, word-drunk poem, one where a worshipful young soldier “stanned for Beowulf,” while Beowulf himself “began, sick-hearted, to hear his death ...

On a quest to view the one and only manuscript of 'Beowulf' John Mark Eberhart. LONDON — I keep trying not to squint. But the light, an eerie purple, is very low.

“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does ...

Don’t Know Much About BEOWULF? Nobody Does! Season 2 Episode 22 | 12m 56s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Today we’re going to take a look at one particular Epic Poem and follow its long ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.

Walking Shadow Co-Artistic Director John Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel's Beowulf at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, directed by Walking Shadow Co-Artistic Director Amy Rummenie, with dramaturgy ...

If you get the chance, see “Beowulf” in an IMAX theater with the 3-D glasses on. It’s not that it won’t thrill in plain ol’ 2-D – there’s plenty of high-octane bloodletting to go around – I just ...

Jeff Bridges is set to star as classic monster Grendel in a new live-action movie from the storied Jim Henson Company and director Robert D. Krzykowsk.. Palisades Park Pictures is set to launch ...