and tells the story of Beowulf and Hrothgar and Grendel and Grendel's mom and the dragon and Wiglaf and everything. Except ... Except that Headley has made it modern, not in form or style or ...

She strings up the corpses of all of Beowulf’s men save for his trusted lieutenant, Wiglaf (Brendan Gleeson). Presented a sword by Unferth (John Malkovich), who initially doubted Beowulf’s ...

Beowulf with his faithful servant Wiglaf Credit: Alamy A note stated that an example is to be found in The Battle of Magh Tuireadh, the Irish mythological work, with a warning to students the text ...

Fifty years later Beowulf, now the aged king of the Geats, faces a dragon ravaging his land. Aided by the young Wiglaf, he kills the dragon, but dies of the wounds it has inflicted. The unknown ...

It has been 17 years since the legendary Hollywood director Robert Zemeckis leaped the integration of animation and motion capture in cinema through his film Beowulf. The adult animated fantasy ...

leading Beowulf to such ruminative last-act pronouncements as "The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf; the Christ-God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing but weeping martyrs, fear ...