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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gaze around Britain’s great cathedrals and castles, at the carved stone and painted glass – the biblia idiotarum or “books of the unlettered” – and they eloquently evoke every age back to William the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Long before J.R.R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s and The Hobbit in the 1930s, the author had an academic career that heavily influenced the writing of his epic fantasy. As a ...