(AP) - The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more ...

Him þæs liffrea, wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf; Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang, Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in. ~ excerpt from the epic Old English poem Beowulf. I’ve been watching a very ...

If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...

Most observers now agree that the fitt numbers in Beowulf were not in the scribes' exemplar. A question less frequently addressed is whether the sectional divisions themselves are authorial or whether ...

In the causal subclause forþan hie mœgenes crœft mine cuþon (Beowulf, 415-8), the possessive has been emended to min[n] e in order to make it agree with (masculine) crœft. The emendation does not ...

My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...

On Friday, October 24, the theatre will debut a new version of an ancient Scandinavian story, which is finding surprising ...

In his solo rendition of "Beowulf" on Wednesday at Ozawa Hall, Benjamin Bagby may be the only musician during the Tanglewood season who will perform an entire evening without any written music. It's ...

Actors’ Theatre of Columbus marks a promising expansion beyond its outdoor summer plays with a laid-back and casually amusing take on an epic tale. “Beowulf (and the Bard),” which launched the company ...