Composed by an unknown bard sometime in the 8th century, Beowulf took on legendary status among the Anglo Saxon people as a folk tale describing a king, a culture, and the origins of a group that for centuries languished in the shadows, only to rise to world significance in the years to come.
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 202 – Beowulf – After Dark
— References —
– Book of the Dead, Unknown (1550 BC)
– Illiad, Homer (750 BC)
– Beowulf, Unknown (750)
– The Dream of the Rood, Unknown (751)
– Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede (731)
– Heliand, Louis (806)
– Historia Regum Britanniae, Monmouth (1136)
– The Secrete History of the Mongols, Unknown (1227)
– The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare (1599)
– Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction, Raffel (1963)
– The Silmarillion, Tolkein (1977)
– Beowulf, Baker (1999)
– Beowulf, Zemekis (2007)
– The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Princeton (2014)
– Beowulf: The Epic in Performance, Bagby (2020) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ
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