If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...

The highest — and driest — bit of early Western civilization to survive the ages is that pre-medieval Germanic epic poem in an indecipherable old English dialect that has been giving high schoolers ...

To be completely honest, I was not ready for Beowulf. After watching the trailers and reading a few early reviews I thought I knew what to expect. You might have read some of the same things I did ...

I'm a big fan of Beowulf: no, not the new movie, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. I've read it several times in the original and in modern English translations, most recently in the bilingual edition with ...

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented Beowulf as a ...

"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades ...