The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

“This is our mead hall, Heorot. Welcome to our mead hall, please,” sings King Hrothgar in this joyfully badass and silly music-filled play about Beowulf, Grendel, and company by the theatre group ...

"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades ...