It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first tim

Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students tha

Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries. This Reader's

This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both ma

What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aestheticall