AdvertisementBeowulf In The Suburbs? 'The Mere Wife' Is An Epic RetellingJuly 22, 2018Korva ColemanfacebookEmail"This text has long been perceived as a masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. "It's been perceived as: Oh that's about men and war. But I think this text is as much about domesticity ... it's a text about home." The Beowulf manuscript above is thought to be approximately 1,000 years old. (The British Library)