Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926. Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation became a bestseller, and children's author ...

New people have come to settle here, these are the Anglo-Saxons. They told some of the very first English stories. Storyteller: There once was a king called Hrothgar, who ruled a land far away ...