This new translation of the ancient epic poem drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, giving us tales of blood, guts and glory told as if over beers in a loud sports bar.

We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey.

Beowulf saves the Geats from the dragon, but the rider who distributes the news feels obliged to add that, as a people, they will shortly be under the heel of the murderous, unsupernatural Swedes.

Beowulf then rules the Geats as king for 50 years, until, as an old man, he sets himself the task of battling a flying, fire-breathing dragon.

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Like many other liberal arts students of the time, I first encountered “Beowulf” in a survey course of English Literature in college.

Beowulf becomes King of the Geats and reigns for 50 years - until he challenges a dragon that ravages his kingdom. Both Beowulf and the dragon die in this final battle.

Like the source material, the film follows Beowulf a hero of the Germanic tribe known as the Geats as he comes to the aid of the Danish king, Hrothgar, whose mead hall (known as Heorot) has been ...

And at poem’s end, after Beowulf, abandoned by the Geats and poisoned by a dragon, has died, a grieving woman unleashes ‘a wild litany/ of nightmare and lament: her nation invaded,/ enemies on ...

This raises some questions, including: Who are “the Geats”? And why would anybody want to be king of them? I mean, the word “Geat” sounds like an insult, doesn’t it?