Beowulf
A companion to the epic poem and its presentation by English faculty during Spring Arts & Culture Festival 2023
Hear Old English
Beowulf. Film Movement, 2007. Kanopy, www.kanopy.com/en/nwacc/video/89819
Benjamin Bagby’s legendary performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (part I) recorded live in Helsingborg, Sweden (January, 2006). Bagby, accompanying himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp, delivers this gripping tale — in the original Old English — as it could have been experienced more than 1000 years ago. Includes modern English captioning.
Streaming
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- Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Over 13 episodes, heroic legend Beowulf gallops through the epic and mythical Shieldlands, to his childhood home of Herot, hoping to set right past wrongs.
DVDs to Borrow
Beowulf by Call Number: PN1995.9.F36 B469854 2008Publication Date: 2007In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
Beowulf & Grendel : the hero, the monster, the myth by Call Number: PN1997 .B469854 2006Publication Date: 2006The bloody tale of warrior Beowulf's battle with Grendel, a murderous troll, to save King Hrothgar's kingdom, which was destroyed by the troll and his men.- Beowulf byCall Number: PR 1583 .B462 2000Publication Date: 2000Stunning animation is used to present the epic poem about the struggle between Beowulf and the monster Grendel.
Beowulf by Call Number: GR72.3 .B46 2007Publication Date: 2007Story of King Hrothgar, the monster Grendal and the hero Beowulf, one of Europe's greatest epics. Anglo-Saxon epic, lines 1-1062.
Music
- Naxos Music Library: Beowulf composed by Toby Young
Young: Beowulf: Prologue
West, Timothy; AC Academy Warwick; Denholm, Anne; Monks, Christopher - Naxos Music Library - The Lament for Beowulf composed by Howard Hanson
Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf performed by
Seattle Symphony Chorale; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Schwarz, Gerard
Theatre
- Script: BeowulfMcPherson, Eddie. “Beowulf.” Plays - The Drama Magazine for Young People, vol. 64, no. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 55–64. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=aph&AN=14391883&site=ehost-live.