“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 ...

The study is just the latest effort to pin down Beowulf's often-mysterious background. "There are two big debates about Beowulf," Krieger explained. "The first is when it was composed, ...

In the Beowulf legend – which is believed to have influenced some aspects of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and was turned into a 150 million dollar Hollywood film six years ago ...

In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

This is attempted at several points in the pilot, to no avail. Beowulf is, indeed, a doughty warrior, and his friend Breca (Gísli Orn Garoarsson) is as wily as he is charming.

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later?

Secrets of Beowulf revealed: Relics discovered at Danish feasting hall which featured in Britain's oldest epic poem. Excavations at Lejre in Denmark reveal remains of hundreds of animals ...

Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. The first thing I need to tell you is that you have to ...

Dusty Old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, went Hollywood on Friday in a bit of high-tech animated movie trickery that its makers are loath to call "animation.". The story ...