Why Read Beowulf? It's a great story, and it takes you places.
At this site you'll find some of the geographical places where my love of Beowulf has taken me. But Beowulf Country goes beyond those sites in the UK and Scandinavia where things like Anglo-Saxon treasure or Viking burial ships and swords can be found.
It now includes Hollywood, which has based three movies on it in the last eight years, schools and universities all over the world where the poem is studied, and hundreds of different editions, translations and adaptations including computer games and comic books.
These pages are for anyone studying or teaching this grand old Anglo-Saxon epic, and for those who (like me) just love it.
Are you looking for resources for an essay? Help yourself to my
translations and images -- but don't forget to credit your source! 
This epic has been a passion of mine since I first read it in
translation as a teenager in 1957. I also love to breathe free air, and my quest for relevant images has just taken me on a great trip to four of the 10 most democratic countries in the world.
Welcome! Look around, have fun, leave a message. Come again -- I'll be
updating frequently.
Mike Walton
Poems for Beowulf Study, translations intros and notes
Beowulf study, connected poems - 6 translations, intros, notes, Finnsburg to Maldon...
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England: Anglo-Saxon Treasures,<br>Maldon Battle Site,<br>Burial Mounds at Sutton Hoo
For Anglo-Saxon treasures, weapons, battlefields, the Beowulf pilgrim must of course go to England. We visit the British Museum to see the Sutton Hoo treasures, then the Maldon battlefield and on to the Sutton Hoo burial mounds.
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Denmark: Ancient Treasures, Viking Ship Building and an Iron Age Village in Grendel Country
Denmark's where Beowulf fought Grendel and his mother. We visit Copenhagen to see ancient treasures, Roskilde for viking shipbuilding, and an iron-age village near Lejre, in Grendel country.
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Sweden-Beowulf resources
Sweden is rich in Beowulf resources. It was home to Beowulf's people, the Geats. The mounds at Gamla Uppsala confirm some of Beowulf's claim to historical accuracy.
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Versions of Beowulf
Describes many available editions, translations and adaptations of Beowulf. These rated in quality from disgraceful (PU!) to brilliant (*****).
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Contact
Mike
Contact Mike to comment, ask questions or order The Book of Beowulf.
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