The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

The highest — and driest — bit of early Western civilization to survive the ages is that pre-medieval Germanic epic poem in an indecipherable old English dialect that has been giving high schoolers ...

The epic poem Beowulf gets an imaginative, low-budget workout in this 2005 Icelandic feature by Sturla Gunnarsson. Shot along Iceland’s rocky southern coast, it wisely forgoes computer-generated ...

"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades ...

In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not ...

I'm a big fan of Beowulf: no, not the new movie, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. I've read it several times in the original and in modern English translations, most recently in the bilingual edition with ...

Beowulf & Grendel: In a medieval Norse setting, the warrior Beowulf sets out to help King Hrothgar by confronting the formidable monster Grendel, who threatens the peace of a village. The film ...