Beowulf Resources

ITV recently announced that it will produce a 13-episode series of Beowulf, about “courage, greed, betrayal, revenge, loyalty, power, man versus wilderness, and of course, love”. The battles ...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/itv-beowulf-epic-series/

J. R. R. Tolkien completed his 2000-page handwritten translation of Beowulf in 1926 but never published it. On May 22nd, eighty-eight years later, Harper-Collins will release the new edition, whi...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/tolkien-translation-of-beowulf-available-may-2014/

For the first time since 2009, when the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered, all four thousand cleaned and studied pieces have been brought together and organized in one place. As a result, expert...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/4000-staffordshire-hoard-pieces-reunited/

I just grabbed a copy of The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Marc Morris (2013) for next to nothing from a list of Kindle Books Monthly Deals. The b...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/a-history-of-the-norman-conquest/

An unintended consequence of my Google alert for “Beowulf” was today’s delightful introduction to Kid Beowulf. These “Good Comics for Kids” are created by Alexis E. Fajardo, a talented ...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/kid-beowulf-comics/

BeowulfResources.com has all the same content as GreeneHamlet.com, but it should be easier to land on the main content. Also, the site is now mobile responsive, with a larger font and more white ...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/greenehamlet-moved-to-beowulfresources/

Well, what do you think “Hwaet means in the first line of Beowulf? Maybe not what you think! Getting that first word right could change the connection between storyteller and audience. Not so f...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/so-hwaet/

Stumbled upon Grendel’s Cave, a medieval adventure game, and thought it deserved a mention. The browser-based game is based on Beowulf and Grendel and has elements of Norse mythology, Dark Ag...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/grendels-cave-role-playing-game/

Seamus Heaney passed away August 30 in Dublin, Ireland. An accomplished and beloved poet, Seamus was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1995. Most of us discovered him with his translation...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/remembering-seamus-heaney/

  Text from the beginning of Beowulf flows from one sock to the other in this amazing “Hwaet!” pattern from designer Gryphon Corpus at Ravelry.com. They’re knitted in an aged-Medieval-manu...

https://www.beowulfresources.com/hand-knitted-beowulf-socks/