I have never read Beowulf. I own a recent paperback translation (w/ explanatory footnotes) by Howell D. Chickering, Jr. but owning is not the same as reading. For one thing, I don't even like regular ...

The more I hear about the upcoming Neil Gaiman-penned Beowulf (slated for release in late November), the more reasons I have to believe that this film is going to be awesome. First of all, it's a ...

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 conference which kicked off Ubisoft's Ubidays event in Paris tonight ended with the announcement that the publisher is to produce a game based on new movie Beowulf. EMEA executive director Alain ...

Dusty Old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, went Hollywood on Friday in a bit of high-tech animated movie trickery that its makers are loath to call "animation." The story, about ...

LONDON, UK - 24th May, 2007 - Ubisoft, one of the world's leading video game publishers, announced that it will develop and publish the video game based on Paramount Pictures' and Shangri-La ...

Beowulf. Utter that name and you'll likely hear sighs and moans from those who have braved its Old English-clad pages. This weekend, however, you'll also hear enthusiastic cheer and a few "can't waits ...

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 ...