Many ancient texts are the work of multiple authors that have been mashed up into one story over the course of generations. Works like The Iliad and The Odyssey ascribed to the blind poet Homer are ...

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What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...

The English we speak is an Anglo-Saxon language, unlike the Latinate ones (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), which are also called Romance languages. English is closer to Germanic. The form we ...