We’ll never know what a performance of “Beowulf” might have sounded like at the time the 3,182-line Anglo-Saxon epic poem was created. In fact, scholars are still debating over the date of “Beowulf,” ...

The legend of Beowulf is over a thousand years old. It details the journey of the hero, Beowulf, who slays the monster, Grendel, at the request of the King of Danes. Beowulf then has to defeat Grendel ...

A kingdom is assaulted by a monster and a hero sweeps in with his army to defend the realm. Not the premise of a new Netflix fantasy series. Instead, a plot synopsis of the Old English epic Beowulf.

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 ...

Gerard Butler's turn as Stoic the Vast in the live-action adaptation of How To Train Your Dragonproves once again that few actors can channel gruff nobility quite like he can. With his commanding ...