IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

Beowulf (/be?.?w?lf/; in Old English [be?o??w?lf]) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines. It is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly ...

The English we speak is an Anglo-Saxon language, unlike the Latinate ones (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), which are also called Romance languages. English is closer to Germanic. The form we ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

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Introduction. 1. The history of the epic -- 2. the discovery of the tables -- 3. the historical background -- 4. the literary background -- 5. the hero of epic -- 6. the principal Gods of the epic -- ...

Using a technique that digitally enhances his actors on-screen, director Robert Zemeckis takes the famous English epic poem and makes it an action-adventure film. Ray Winstone (slimmed down by ...