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It runs to more than 3,000 lines of verse and is the longest epic poem in Old English. Now, Beowulf - which documents the eponymous hero's battles with a monster and a dragon - will be made into a ...

The real-life medieval society which spawned the epic poem Beowulf is coming to light in a series of ground-breaking discoveries centred around the royal court of sixth-century Denmark. The poem, one ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, one of the most expensive dramas made by ITV, is aimed at rivalling Game of Thrones. The TV series, which cost around £17m, is inspired by the original epic poem ...

The poem has been read in classrooms around the world and has influenced countless works of literature, but the identity of the author of Beowulf remains unknown. Scholars can't agree on when exactly ...