Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was his first full-length translation of a substantial medieval text since Sweeney Astray, and, like Sweeney Astray, it was a long time ...

It could be the plot of Hollywood's latest blockbuster movie. But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead ...

Beowulf tracks her to her underwater cave and fights her. In the original poem Beowulf returns to Geatland and, fifty years later as king, must fight a dragon. The dragon is killed but Beowulf has ...

A view now embraced by many scholars, based on lexical, orthographic, palaeographic, and other criteria, is that the preserved text shows ... placing the poem in the late Viking Age (Davis 2006; North ...