キーワード Beowulf

呪われた王国へ、男は海の向こうからやって来た。どんな戦士もかなわなかった怪物グレンデルを倒し、名を馳せるために。鎧も武器も要らない。相手が素手なら、こちらも生身で戦うまで。そんな恐れ知らずの勇者に仕掛けられた甘い誘惑……。手にしたものは莫大な富、永遠の力、そして偉大なる王の称号。しかし、栄光の先には恐るべき代償が待っていた――！

Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.

Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages. Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.