Viking Stuff! (well, Anglo-Saxon stuff)

The starting place of English literature. An epic poem difficult to translate and even harder to adapt.

Paul Talks Beowulf. The poem, it's themes, its characters and monsters, its influence. As well, Paul discusses some noteworthy (not always good!) film and novel versions. 

Donaldson, E. Talbot. Beowulf: A New Prose Translation. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1966.

Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Tolkien, J.R.R. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. London, Harper Collins, 2014.