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 ...

Beowulf becomes King of the Geats and reigns for 50 years - until he challenges a dragon that ravages his kingdom. Both Beowulf and the dragon die in this final battle. Getty Images The 2007 film ...

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 ...

Fifty years later Beowulf, now the aged king of the Geats, faces a dragon ravaging his land. Aided by the young Wiglaf, he kills the dragon, but dies of the wounds it has inflicted. The unknown ...

Finally, an aged Beowulf, who has become king of the Geats, confronts a third enemy—a dragon. The poem is replete with ominous forebodings, and this time Beowulf is tragically defeated.

and finally a dragon that mortally wounds him. Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new translation of “Beowulf” came out last year, wanted to build onto the thousand-year-old poem’s long history.

and Beowulf’s final contest with a dragon, which was guarding a hoard of treasure. What marks out Beowulf is the gripping and highly developed story, and the richness of its language.

“Beowulf,” perhaps the oldest surviving long poem in English literature, interweaves themes of loyalty, reputation, generosity, hospitality, envy and revenge in the characters of an epic tale of a ...