We’ll never know what a performance of “Beowulf” might have sounded like at the time the 3,182-line Anglo-Saxon epic poem was created. In fact, scholars are still debating over the date of “Beowulf,” ...

There's nothing like a rock band to enliven a seminar on ancient Anglo-Saxon literature. It's even more entertaining when the members of a panel discussion on "Beowulf" begin to morph into the ...

The legend of Beowulf is over a thousand years old. It details the journey of the hero, Beowulf, who slays the monster, Grendel, at the request of the King of Danes. Beowulf then has to defeat Grendel ...

Heroic tales of conquest over malignant foes in the face of incredible odds always reverberate in the imagination. Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries in ...

A kingdom is assaulted by a monster and a hero sweeps in with his army to defend the realm. Not the premise of a new Netflix fantasy series. Instead, a plot synopsis of the Old English epic Beowulf.