Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), is hitting stores next week. A straight-up action title, Beowulf has you starring as the title character. The ...

Beowulf was a Swedish hero made famous by an eighth century English epic poem of the same name. Young Beowulf was a fearless warrior of the Geats, the people of southern Sweden. When Heorot (modern ...

This morning I was reading some raging, angry letters to the editor about yet another proposal for a monster house on the outskirts of Aspen. Well, actually, it was only one angry letter, but it was ...

Although some might see yet another posthumous publication from JRR Tolkien as scraping the barrel, John Garth says that the author's expertise on the Old English epic suggests it should be taken ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — So what’s the big deal with “Beowulf?” Even most English majors would be hard-pressed to give you a convincing answer. After listening to Seamus Heaney read his acclaimed ...

Far off the beaten track on the windswept moors of England’s north-east, a disused quarry has been transformed into the mythical world of the Shieldlands. It’s the setting for one of the most ...

The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.