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 ...

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 ...

is that the preserved text shows traces of at least one earlier manuscript from the period just before or after ad 700 (Neidorf 2014a). Linguistic Dating Given the premise that Beowulf was written by ...

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 ...