BEOWULF (2 DVD)

RUNTIME: 114 MINS

CAT: AWA246
UPC: 881482324699
RRP: $19.95

Collects the two high-selling Beowulf programs produced by ArtsmagicDVD... BEOWULF & THE ANGLO-SAXONS and LIFE IN THE AGE OF BEOWULF.

BEOWULF & THE ANGLO-SAXONS
This program sets out to trace the origins of the tribes that brought the epic story of Beowulf 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. 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. 

LIFE IN THE AGE OF BEOWULF
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village is set in 125 acres. Here in the 1960s and 1970s, a series of archaeological digs revealed the remains of a substantial settlement of over seventy houses of which eight have been reconstructed. The earliest remains, going back as far as 420 B.C., coincide with the period during which the Roman legions withdrew from Britain, leaving it open to the Anglo-Saxon invasions.