But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead-swilling crowd. Described by historian and broadcaster Michael ...

They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb’s bleat.

SO, THE snow has fallen, and frost has fettered the ground, as the Anglo-Saxon poets would say, “forste gefeterad”, with the kind of alliteration that fixed winter perfectly in words. As I pull my ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which combines powerful, new translations with lucid commentary,bringing these Old ...

This is a poem set in Scandinavia, in which Beowulf battles against a monster called Grendel. Anglo-Saxons also enjoyed riddles. In the 900s, around one hundred were gathered together in the ...

English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English ...

Damian Bullen, who now lives on the Isle of Arran, has held a deep fascination in the Battle of Brunanburh for many years, ...

Soak up the atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground in midwinter and discover more about the how the people who were laid to rest at Sutton Hoo may have celebrated at the special time of ...