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, ...

"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades ...

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 ...

In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not ...

Having heard that a naked Angelina Jolie plays Grendel's beast-mom, you've guessed that the semi-animated 3-D Beowulf is not a totally faithful rendition of the 3,138-line epic poem you struggled ...

SAN FRANCISCO - November 16, 2007 - Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that Beowulf(TM), the action combat game based on Paramount Pictures' and Shangri-La ...

I'm a big fan of Beowulf: no, not the new movie, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. I've read it several times in the original and in modern English translations, most recently in the bilingual edition with ...