Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons

History Documentary hosted by Peter Morgan Jones, published by Artmagic Films in 2010 - English narration


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Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons
This documentary goes beyond the text of the epic poem and examines the history behind its writing. With interviews and travels in Europe, BEOWULF AND THE ANGLO-SAXONS dives into the culture of the people who created the classic myth. This title also explores the warrior society of the ancient people.
Miraculously preserved over the centuries, its artistic importance was unrecognized until an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) revealed its unity and multi-dimensional structure. Beowulf is now regarded as the most important manuscript the Anglo-Saxons have handed down to us, of immense linguistic as well as poetic value. This program sets out to trace the origins of the tribes that brought this epic into being, the war-like Norsemen from Sweden, Denmark and Germany who were to conquer and settle regions of a more clement and fertile island that would become known as England, named after the tribe of the Angles. Using 3-D animation, location footage, archive materials and interviews, the Beowulf epic is examined in the light of the civilization that created it. It investigates their religious beliefs as well as their everyday life, and suggests that, old as the poem is, it may have roots in an even more ancient fertility cult.

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Technical Specs
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 * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
 * Video Bitrate: 1770 kbps
 * Video Resolution: 704x400
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.760
 * Frames Per Second: 29.970
 * Audio Codec: (Dolby AC3)
 * Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
 * Audio Streams: 2
 * Audio Languages: English
 * RunTime Per Part: 63.mins
 * Number Of Parts: 1
 * Part Size: 895 MB
 * Subtitles: None
 * Ripped by: Harry65
 * Source: DVD



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1)  Further Information 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf#First_battle:_Grendel 
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/play/weststow-asv.cfm