Heroic Beowulf seeks to protect his hometown of Herot from a killer, be it human or beast. Heroic legend Beowulf (Kieran Bew) gallops through the epic and mythical Shieldlands, to his childhood home ...

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 didn’t even know that the language printed on the other side ...