My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Beowulf, the epic poem set in Scandinavia, is arguably one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon ...

Beowulf (/be?.?w?lf/; in Old English [be?o??w?lf]) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines. It is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The focus last week was on two items cited as the 'earliest evidence of an English language in the ...

And now the story of Beowulf, and the monster Grendel, will be brought to life in a 1km trail through the Brecks. The Beowulf and Grendel Trail, based at the West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, near Bury ...

It's a staple of English literature courses, an Old English epic poem so dramatic it has even spawned a computer-animated action fantasy film. Yet academics have slapped a ‘trigger warning’ on Beowulf ...

“Beowulf,” the first great literary epic to come out of the British Isles, barely squeaked its way to us through time. Created between 650 and 850 A.D. and committed to manuscript circa 1000 A.D., it ...

The English we speak is an Anglo-Saxon language, unlike the Latinate ones (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), which are also called Romance languages. English is closer to Germanic. The form we ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The form guôrinc 'warrior' (Beowulf, 1118b) does not make sense in the account of the cremation following ...

One of the oldest, longest and most influential works in the history of Old English will soon be experienced through the eyes of one of the world’s most beloved fantasy authors. J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How ...