RESEARCH INTO OTHER early European epic poetry, such as the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Nibelungenlied, was long marked by a controversy between “Unitarians,” who primarily regarded these works as ...

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 ...