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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Brighton author George W Jones argues that Beowulf isn’t a myth and that it didn’t mythically happen in Sweden.

He wrote the lecture-turned-paper "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" in 1936, which gave momentum to the other viewpoint that Beowulf was written by a single person.

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 ...

So if I can't have the 'Beowulf' manuscript, and it's becoming more and more apparent to me that the British Library won't let me borrow it, then 'Electronic Beowulf' will more than do.

The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis ...