Beowulf
The story of King Hrothgar, the monster Grendel, and the hero Beowulf is one of Europe's greatest epics. Benjamin Bagby takes us back in time more than 1,000 years to hear Beowulf in the original Old English. The co-founder and director of the Sequentia ensemble for medieval music, he accompanies himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp. "Mr. Bagby comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has"—New York Times. 1 hour 38 min., with optional modern English subtitles.





