Many people may not associate one of the most remarkable storytellers of the twentieth century, J.R.R. Tolkien, with Beowulf, the first great heroic poem in English literature. But as a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, he probably taught it every year of his working life, culminating ...

Beowulf is an epic poem written somewhere between 750-1000 A.D. Exact year is not known because the poem was anonymously written but from what historians have learned from style of writing and language suggest that it was written during or after seventh century. The language is a form of England...