It took 54 years, but the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania has its copy of Beowulf back. It was checked out in January 1969. And since the library is fine-free now, there was no charge. Good ...

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will apparently include a run-in with Beowulf, as part of a bonus story mission which appears to be exclusive to the game's season pass. The information was confirmed by a ...

Heroic tales of conquest over malignant foes in the face of incredible odds always reverberate in the imagination. Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries in ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...

J.R.R. Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a world so vast it spills off of the ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...

Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never read Bridge to Terabithia. To quote Blanche Devereaux, "I am stunned! Just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how ... stunned I am!" I ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Writers such as Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Kamila Shamsie have all reimagined traditional narratives, shifting our ...

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There were two cool things about the console versions of Beowulf: the singing thanes and the impressive levels of gore. Neither of those can be found in the PSP version, which is pure abomination. And ...