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Beowulf becomes King of the Geats and reigns ... the manuscript now known as British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, which will go on display in the library's Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition ...
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?
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On display at the British Museum in London ... have led archaeologists to link the burial with the epic poem "Beowulf," an Old English tale that connects East Anglia with Scandinavia through ...
The Danes plan to put the finds on permanent display next year at Roskilde and Lejre Museums. In the Beowulf legend – which is believed to have influenced some aspects of Tolkien’s Lord of the ...
The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a ...
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 ...