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ITV Beowulf Epic Series

December 18, 2014 By Araby Greene

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ITV recently announced that it will produce a 13-episode series of Beowulf, about “courage, greed, betrayal, revenge, loyalty, power, man versus wilderness, and of course, love”. The battles between good and evil, heroes and villains take place in a mythical place named “Shieldlands,” and filmed in County Durham and Northumberland starting in April 2015. James […]

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Tolkien Translation of Beowulf Available May 2014

March 19, 2014 By Araby Greene

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J. R. R. Tolkien completed his 2000-page handwritten translation of Beowulf in 1926 but never published it. On May 22nd, eighty-eight years later, Harper-Collins will release the new edition, which includes commentary taken from his father’s Beowulf lectures by editor Christopher Tolkien. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is now available at amazon.com. Tolkien’s extensive academic […]

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4000 Staffordshire Hoard Pieces Reunited

March 12, 2014 By Araby Greene

For the first time since 2009, when the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered, all four thousand cleaned and studied pieces have been brought together and organized in one place. As a result, experts have made at least 600 new connections between fragments of broken or incomplete objects. […]

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A History of The Norman Conquest

February 7, 2014 By Araby Greene

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I just grabbed a copy of The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Marc Morris (2013) for next to nothing from a list of Kindle Books Monthly Deals. The book is well reviewed and from what little I’ve read so far this morning, it’s both scholarly and wonderfully […]

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