Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described ... Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth to 11th centuries, primarily because in the ninth century, the Vikings ...

Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore. Designed by ...

Seven dramas exploring the time of the Anglo-Saxons in England, including the story of Beowulf. 1. The Anglo-Saxons arrive. video1. The Anglo-Saxons arrive The arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed a dragon guarding "dazzling spoils," and the aged hero Beowulf battles a dragon guarding gold and "garnered jewels" laid in the ground.

Narrator: People loved to listen to tales of warriors, because it’s an important part of Anglo-Saxon life. Osric: What happened in the end? Storyteller: See, I said that story of Beowulf would ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... its similarity to that depicted in the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. The eponymous hero of this work is a Geat from modern ...

Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45. “An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.

Matthew T. Hussey studies book history and the intellectual culture of Anglo-Saxon England with a focus on Anglo-Latin and Old English literature and their manuscript contexts. Matthew T. Hussey has ...