An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How is it that ... The eponymous hero of this 3,182-line poem battles fierce monsters, rips off ...

We will read Beowulf in translation, and discuss contemporary approaches to the poem. We will also study other Old English works such as Judith, as well as Frankish and Old Norse-Icelandic literature ...