Saxon story of Beowulf told in 3 short animated episodes for KS2 pupils. Beowulf arrives in Denmark to fight the monster, Grendel. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

Beowulf had an unusual name. It means bee-wolf. Some old English people (Saxons) called the bear a bee-wolf. A bear’s face was dog-like, or wolf-like, and it often nosed into beehives to eat honey.

Young orphan Beowulf is adopted by Hrothgar, thane of the Huskatil tribe in Herot. After years away fighting as a mercenary Beowulf returns to find that Hrothgar is dead, having names his wife Rheda ...

It took 54 years, but the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania has its copy of Beowulf back. It was checked out in January 1969. And since the library is fine-free now, there was no charge. Good ...

What makes a monster? This is a question which relies on when in history you are asking it. Understandings of monstrosity are ...

Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem's meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance – the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th century library fire – has travelled across 1000years to lodge in our imagination like ...

Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...

Afew weeks ago, during a visit to the doctor, I laughed out loud when the online check-in portal suggested Old English as my language preference, and not only because I happened to have with me Maria ...