Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore. Designed by ...

The heroic warrior Beowulf. The epic poem Beowulf, which survives in a single manuscript dating from around 1000 AD, and was almost completely unknown until its rediscovery in the 19th century ...

Written sometime between 650 and 1000 C.E., “Beowulf” is the oldest epic poem in English. It depicts a swamp monster, Grendel, terrorizing a kingdom until Beowulf, a prince of The Geats ...

The events of the poem are set in Scandanavia. Hrothgar - King of the Danes - builds a mead hall called Heorot but comes under attack from a monster called Grendel. Beowulf, a prince of Geatland ...

New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough reviews a new TV version of Beowulf and how it compares to the poem she teaches. And the science writer and broadcaster, Marcus Chown ...