Beowulf - After Dark (Myth20c - Ep202)

Composed by an unknown bard sometime in the 8th century, Beowulf took on legendary status among the Anglo Saxon people as a folk tale describing a king, a culture, and the origins of a group that for centuries languished in the shadows, only to rise to world significance in the years to come.

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-- References --

- Book of the Dead, Unknown (1550 BC)
- Illiad, Homer (750 BC)
- Beowulf, Unknown (750)
- The Dream of the Rood, Unknown (751)
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede (731)
- Heliand, Louis (806)
- Historia Regum Britanniae, Monmouth (1136)
- The Secrete History of the Mongols, Unknown (1227)
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare (1599)
- Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction, Raffel (1963)
- The Silmarillion, Tolkein (1977)
- Beowulf, Baker (1999)
- Beowulf, Zemekis (2007)
- The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Princeton (2014)
- Beowulf: The Epic in Performance, Bagby (2020) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ