Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the ... But big-screen adaptations of the poem have so far fallen short. In 1999, the year of Heaneywulf, we also received a cheerfully B-movie, jerkins-and ...

And so Headley’s Beowulf is a rambling, boastful, word-drunk poem, one where a worshipful young soldier “stanned for Beowulf,” while Beowulf himself “began, sick-hearted, to hear his death ...

Alfred Prufrock” (and other lines in that famous poem), Donald Mace Williams brings “Beowulf” to West Texas. In Winakur’s book one would expect that as a doctor there would be poems about ...

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 ...

The lack of scholarly apparatus is deceptive: Headley has studied the poem deeply and is conversant with some of the text’s most obscure details. Though she comes to “Beowulf” from a ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old ... century movie technology at its finest to turn the heroic poem into a vibrant, nerve-tingling piece […] By Kirk Honeycutt ...

Computer-based analysis of the Old English poem Beowulf indicates it’s the work of single author. The origins of the epic poem about a Danish hero’s quest to kill Grendel and later the monster ...

The mystery of whether the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf was written by one person or stitched together from multiple sources may have finally been solved by Harvard University. Researchers used a ...

The TV series, which cost around £17m, is inspired by the original epic poem about a warrior who kills demons and monsters. "Hundreds of years ago our ancestors listened to the story of Beowulf ...