The Angelina Jolie-led Beowulf brought the epic poem to animated life, but how accurate was its portrayal of the deadly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance – the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th century library fire – has travelled across 1000years to lodge in our imagination like ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...

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