RESEARCH INTO OTHER early European epic poetry, such as the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Nibelungenlied, was long marked by a controversy between “Unitarians,” who primarily regarded these works as ...

THERE IS AN element of catch-22 to the argument that Beowulf cannot have been created in Scandinavia because there is no comparable contemporary Scandinavian work of poetry. In Scandinavia, the ...

It could be the plot of Hollywood's latest blockbuster movie. But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead ...

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and ...

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 ...

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 ...

We meet him in the midst of a traumatic event, after which Grant reflects on Beowulf, the epic poem he studied in school about a warrior who persevered through battles centuries prior. Grant’s ...

The Case of the Case for Beowulf,” in Feminist Approaches to Early English Studies, ed. Renee Trilling, Robin Norris, and Rebecca Stephenson (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023): pp. 377-400.