Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” comes to theatres Friday. “Alexander,” “Troy,” “300” – now the Anglo-Saxon poem “Beowulf” can be added to the list of ancient, epic tales turned into movies in recent years.

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's ...

<> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I ...

I enjoyed Stephen T. Asma’s essay on Beowulf, but I had a few reservations (“Never Mind Grendel. Can Beowulf Conquer the 21st-Century Guilt Trip?,” The Chronicle Review, December 7). One problem is ...

THREE of us sat in the shade of a brush arbor—another young woman and I, and an old Indian man. We sat enclosed and protected, lapped in shadow and shielded from the blue blaze of the midsummer sky.

ITV is continuing to grow its homegrown genre TV offerings, with the announcement of a 13-part series based on the ancient hero Beowulf. Described as "essentially a western set in the Dark Ages of ...

Within the confines of a cramped rehearsal room, the stirring story of the warrior Beowulf rolls off the tongue of award-winning actor Johnny Lee Davenport. As Davenport describes preparing for his ...