There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one ...

What have they done to "Beowulf," everyone's least favourite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoying dragon that turns up 50 years later?

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later ...

Heroic tales of conquest over malignant foes in the face of incredible odds always reverberate in the imagination. Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries ...

It seems unfair to call any iteration of the epic “Beowulf” derivative, because “Beowulf” pretty much started it all. The 3,182-line tale of a Scandinavian hero keeping the world safe from ...

And then, back in Geatland 50 years later, Beowulf faces a dragon. Billows of Game of Thrones –esque dragon breath, heroic paroxysms. Beowulf kills the dragon, and the dragon kills Beowulf. The end.

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, one of the most expensive dramas made by ITV, is aimed at rivalling Game of Thrones. The TV series, which cost around £17m, is inspired by the original epic ...

Beowulf: The enduring appeal of an Anglo-Saxon 'superhero story' 3 May 2018 Britt Martin Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language ...

Viking hero Beowulf is played by Ray Winstone — or a pixilated version of him, anyway — in Robert Zemeckis' video-game version of the literary classic.

Beowulf - one of the greatest literary heroes of all time - is coming to the small screen. ITV has commissioned a thirteen-part drama based on the Old English poem sharing the adventures of its ...