Summary: The oldest story in the English language, Beowulf is the Norse epic saga of good vs. evil and man vs. monster. The famous Viking warrior battles invaders, monsters, and a fire-breathing dragon. This episode of Clash of the Gods examines Norse mythology’s greatest hero and the intriguing possibility that he may have been a real-life warrior. Recently unearthed burial mounds and ancient carvings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BEOHinds, Gareth
Summary: The epic tale of the great warrior Beowulf has thrilled readers through the ages — and now it is reinvented for a new generation with Gareth Hinds’s masterful illustrations. Grendel’s black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats the monster and his hideous mother, while somber hues overcast the hero’s final, fatal battle against a raging dragon. Speeches filled with courage and sadness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC HINSummary: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonate throughout the ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With the intensity and commitment of an ancient Norse warrior, Benjamin Bagby brings the epic poem Beowulf to incandescent life. This program documents Bagby's brilliant iteration of the saga before a live audience in Helsingborg, Sweden-demonstrating the spellbinding qualities of both the poem and the performer. Reciting the entire 1,062-line Grendel story in the original Old English and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Fajardo, Alexis E
Summary: Presents the origin of the young brothers Beowulf and Grendel from their birth and separation to their reunion and banishment from Daneland, in this story that includes a short adaptation of the Old English epic poem upon which the main story is loosely based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andews McMeel Universal 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Fajardo, Alexis E
Summary: Banished from their homeland, twin brothers Beowulf and Grendel seek refuge with their Uncle Holger, but find France in turmoil and the nation's hero Roland, lacking motivation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAJSerraillier, Ian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Z. Walck, Inc. 1961
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 SERSummary: Beowulf and Grendel are in war-torn Spain, where honor is hard-fought, allegiances are dubious, and the bulls run wild. Amidst it all comes a young knight named Rodrigo, who fights for the name he's lost, the land he loves, and the virtue they've both forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAJSummary: Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry HeaneySummary: Recently re-translated by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Beowulf has caused a sensation in both the U.S. and the U.K. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks with Heaney about his attraction to that epic poem, the probable background of the bard who created the original, similarities between Old English and bits of Anglo-Saxon that still crop up in rural Ireland, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This spectacular drama reimagines one of literature's most enduring heroes, the great warrior Beowulf. Featuring an ensemble cast of fascinating and fantastical characters, this epic drama follows Beowulf as he strives to be a man as well as hero, challenging the notions of good and evil, heroes and villains, and the rule of law against one's moral code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEORumford, James
Summary: A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 RUMMcMan, Ann
Summary: "English professor and aspiring novelist, Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of "Beowulf for Cretins" to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's "hidden ivy" colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bywater Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMSummary: Beowulf is the oldest written epic in English literature. In this program, Dr. Robert DiNapoli-teaching fellow in Old and Middle English at the University of Birmingham, England-and Professor John Burrow of Bristol University examine the symbolism and the influence of Christianity in Beowulf and other masterpieces of English and Germanic poetry. The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Nickerson, Heidi
Summary: A teenage waitress discovers she can turn into a monster, and uses her new ability to search for missing schoolmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Fiction 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NICTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 829.3 TOLRaven, Nicky.
Summary: A modern, illustrated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RAVSummary: Cultivating an appreciation of the English classics requires studying the mother tongue as it was originally spoken. In this program, Dr. Joseph Gallagher brings language to life by reciting examples of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English in their original dialects. In addition, he discusses the evolution of English syntax and morphology. A dramatization of a portion of Beowulf is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Weinersmith, Zach
Summary: "Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy's clarion call! Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and staving off the shadow of adulthood. One day, these brave warriors find their fun cut short by their nefarious neighbor Grindle, who can no longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 WEIBarnhouse, Rebecca.
Summary: Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010