A pivotal scene in the third act has the story’s hero Beowulf, portrayed by Ray Winstone, confronting the dragon, who happens to be his son. The dragon features Winstone’s eyes, and its ...

After the Grendel and the Bog Witch incident, Beowulf was ready to kick back and relax... and he did! He was made king of an ...

Finally, an aged Beowulf, who has become king of the Geats, confronts a third enemy—a dragon. The poem is replete ... the poem as a coherent work of art and not just an artifact passed on ...

However, Beowulf now comes with a trigger warning, as the dragon-slaying epic is included among poems flagged for “animal cruelty” and “ableism”. Myths and legends from the Middle Ages ...