On Friday, October 24, the theatre will debut a new version of an ancient story, which is finding surprising parallels in ...

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 ...

The British Library has the original manuscript of Beowulf that was published in the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. It is widely considered the best poem ever ...

It's not often that we learn plenty about a major upcoming big-screen project before it's even begun shooting, but that's the case with Grendel, a live-action retelling of the Old English epic Beowulf ...