Sure enough, as Beowulf saidJust that very nightGrendel burst into the hallA truly loathsome sight! Beowulf’s men drew their swordsBut they fought in vainNo earthly blade, from blacksmith made ...
Lookout: Who are you, strangers? Beowulf: My friend, we are Geats and we come in peace. I am Beowulf and I wish to speak with Hrothgar, your king. Lookout: If you are truly the famous Beowulf then ...
"It's bit like an old-fashioned dance step ... during what would have been a "social occasion". Beowulf isn't just significant in English literary history - it is set in Denmark and was actually ...
Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was his first full-length translation of a substantial ... and becoming what Frank Kermode termed ‘a slightly surprising best-seller.’ Some ...