This is the classic story written over a thousand years ago & retold for children ready to tackle longer & more complex stories Fearsome monsters stalk the moors of ancient Denmark murdering anyone they catch But then a warrior comes from overseas His name is Beowulf He kills monsters Each scene is atmospherically brought to life with Victor Tavares& illustrations Part of the Usborne Reading Programme is developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton ...

Set in a magical era veiled by the mists of time replete with heroes & monsters adventure & valor gold & glory one exceptional man emerges to save an ancient Danish kingdom from annihilation by an ungodly creature After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel Beowulf (Ray Winstone) incurs the undying wrath of the beast&s ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie) who will use any means possible to ensure revenge The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages immortalizing the name of Beowulf Languages English Castilian Spanish French German Italian Subtitles English Brazilian Portuguese Castilian Spanish Complex Chinese Danish Dutch Finnish French German Italian Korean Latin Spanish Norwegian Portuguese Swedish Approx Run Time 115 Mins Special Features Directors cut
- featuring extended footage Reading Between The Lines The Making of Beowulf The Origins of Beowulf Beowulf&s Beast of Burden Art of Beowulf Deleted Scenes
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After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel Beowulf incurs the undying wrath of the beast&s ruthlessly seductive mother who will use any means possible to ensure revenge What follows in an epic battle that will resonate through the ages & immortalise the name of Beowulf ...

Beowulf Legends Terror at Heorot is a fast-paced & exciting card-drafting game for 2 to 5 players Players take on the roles of loyal Thanes to the good King Hrothgar carousing in the vast & fabulous Mead Hall of Heorot but powerless to defeat the the terrible monster Grendel who nightly attacks their feasting — until a fearless warrior from Geatland arrives to save them a hero named Beowulf The game takes place over four rounds each representing one night of feasting During the feasts players draft cards to collect valuable gold coins & healing balms receive the honour of Heorot & sing songs to the glory of Hrothgar in the hope of being rewarded with one of his gifts At the end of each feast the next Grendel & Feast cards are revealed to determine who Grendel attacks inflicting &scratches& on one or more of the players After the fourth feast Beowulf arrives & defeats the monster Grendel & Hrothgar rewards Beowulf for finally ridding Heorot of Grendel’s terror but Beowulf is generous & shares these gifts with the players who he considers to be the most honourable But before the true hero of Heorot can be celebrated the player who suffered the most at Grendel’s terrible hand is laid to rest by his comrades & his gold coins buried with him The surviving player with the most gold coins is celebrated as a true hero of the Danes — by Beowulf Hrothgar & everyone at Heorot! ...

The epic Anglo-Saxon legend is brilliantly recreated by an award-winning authorillustrator team In fifth-century Denmark a murderous monster stalks the night & only the great prince of the Geats has the strength & courage to defeat him Beowulf&s terrifying quest to destroy Grendel the foul fiend a hideous sea-hag & a monstrous fire-dragon is the oldest surviving epic in British literature Artfully retold & magnificently illustrated this companion volume to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is made instantly accessible to children by a formidable children&s book partnership ...

In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend Beowulf the renowned children's historical fiction writer Rosemary Sutcliff recounts Beowulf's most terrifying quests against Grendel the man-wolf against the hideous sea-hag & most courageous of all
- his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake
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Composed towards the end of the first millennium the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics & a classic of European literature In his new translation Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true line by line to the original poem & an expression in its language & music of something fundamental to his own creative gift The poem is about encountering the monstrous defeating it & then having to live on physically & psychically exposed in that exhausted aftermath It is not hard to draw parallels between this story & the history of the twentieth century nor can Heaney&s Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing But it also transcends such considerations telling us psychological & spiritual truths that are permanent & liberating ...

The translation of Beowulf by JRR Tolkien was an early work very distinctive in its mode completed in 1926 he returned to it later to make hasty corrections but seems never to have considered its publication This edition is twofold for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; & from these lectures a substantial selection has been made to form also a commentary on the translation in this book From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy & clarity of his vision It is as if he entered into the imagined past standing beside Beowulf & his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot But the commentary in this book

Includes:: also much from those lectures in which while always anchored in the text he expressed his wider perceptions He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf snuffling in baffled rage & injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is a mere treasure story' just another dragon tale' He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago & observes that it is the feeling for the treasure itself this sad history' that raises it to another level The whole thing is sombre tragic sinister curiously real The treasure is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time or marry the princess It is laden with history leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song but not beyond the reach of imagination' Sellic Spell a marvellous tale' is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form & style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf in which there was no association with the historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms

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This spectacular drama re-imagines one of literature’s most enduring heroes the great warrior Beowulf Having left the rugged frontier town of Herot some twenty years before he returns seeking a sense of purpose & belonging & to say goodbye to it’s dying Thane Hrothgar Although quickly & wrongly accused of murdering Herot’s Reeve shortly after his arrival Beowulf once again finds a home in the town & after driving off the beast Grendl he becomes the enigmatic & unconventional Reeve whose job it is to uphold the law & protect the town from the external & internal dangers which constantly threaten its existence What he doesn’t plan on however is falling in love with Herot’s beautiful if secretive healer Featuring an ensemble cast of fascinating characters this epic drama follows Beowulf as he strives to be a man as well as a hero whilst defending those he loves from an increasingly hostile world Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

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