Note that the links for Books and Film go to Amazon. This is not
to endorse them as a seller but rather because their bibliographic
records are quite good.
Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
- a tremendous translation of the epic.
Gareth Hind's The
Collected Beowulf - Beowulf in the form of a graphic novel.
Bruce Mitchell's Guide to Old English - everyone's favorite textbook for learning OE.
Clark Hall & Meritt's Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - it's not that concise.
Barney's Word-Hoard - a more portable dictionary.
Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon
Primer - a resource for learning Old English.
John Gardner's Grendel
- a nihilistic retelling of the epic from the monster's point of view.
Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead - greatly influenced by Beowulf.