The British Library has the original manuscript of Beowulf that was published in the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. It is widely considered the best poem ...

The Beowulf Manuscript is a half-burned thing whose survival is a miracle. Its provenance is unknown: It was probably written down in the tenth or eleventh centuries, but it’s impossible to tell ...

For years — decades — I have wanted to see the "Beowulf" manuscript. Like "Gawain," only a single copy exists. Unlike "Gawain," "Beowulf" was written in Old English; it is centuries older.

The first English edition came out in 1833. According to a press release, scholars found the manuscript odd from the beginning, suggesting it was at least two poems stitched together.

Here’s something that’s awesome: The ancient “Beowulf” manuscript is now online — for the first time ever — in all its 3,186 lines of Old English, monster-slaying parchment-y glory ...

There is a single surviving manuscript of Beowulf Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926.

That “Beowulf” was ever brought to public attention at all was thanks to its chance rediscovery by Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin—an Icelandic antiquarian who stumbled upon it in 1786, and devoted ...

I am Beowulf, and I will kill your monster."Here's the same scrapper in the Irish poet Seamus Heaney's translation of the ancient manuscript (Beowulf, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000): "I had a ...

Beowulf emerged scorched and seared —but still no one did anything to preserve what remained. Icelandic Scholar Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin came to London after hearing about the manuscript by ...