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Google Book Search - http://books.google.com/
Google's collection of digitized books includes a large number of books related to Old English literature and language. Users can search for books by author, title, subject, and other criteria. If a search is limited to full view, the results will all be books that can be read in their entirety. Books may be viewed as page images or as plain text, and in many cases can be downloaded as a PDF file. |
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Intute Database - http://www.intute.ac.uk
Provides extensively cataloged descriptions of sites containing Old English texts, translations, studies, projects, and resources. Searches on "Old English" (in quotes) or "Anglo Saxon" (in quotes and without a hyphen) return large numbers of records. The title in each record is hot-linked to the corresponding site. |
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Anglo-Saxon Britain - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html#Anglo-Saxon%20Britain
Anglo-Saxon section of the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Includes modern English translations of a number of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Latin texts. |
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: from the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance - http://www.bartleby.com/211/
Covers every aspect of Anglo-Saxon literature, including discussions of important poems and prose works and accounts of individual authors. |
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Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: a Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England - http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk/
Aims to identify all written sources which were incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted anywhere in English or Latin texts written by Anglo-Saxon authors. Database includes search engine. |
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Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) - http://www.pase.ac.uk/
A searchable database of all recorded people who lived during the Anglo-Saxon period. The database supplies personal information about each historical person. In addition to searching by person, one can search by several other indexes such as sources, events, and relationships. |
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Internet Archive Search Engine - http://www.archive.org/search.php
The Internet Archive includes a large number of digitized books related to Old English literature and language. These books are available in PDF, plain text, and other formats. Use the search engine to retrieve books by creator, title, and other criteria. |
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Old English Resources - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/
Carl Berkhout's site at the University of Arizona provides images of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, a record of Anglo-Saxon scholars and scholarship past and present, and links to other Old English sites. |
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Old English Newsletter Online - http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/index.php
Online version of the OEN. Includes news, notices of publications, reports, and essays from the current issue and back issues. Also provides links to Internet sites for Anglo-Saxon studies. |
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Alphabetical Index of Old English poetry. - http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/alpha.html
An alphabetized list of links to the complete texts of all Anglo-Saxon poems. At Georgetown University. |
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Readings of Old English Poetry - http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/readings/readings.html
Sound recordings of selected poems. Includes Old English texts and modern English translations. |
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Anglo-Saxon England: a Guide to Online Resources - http://the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/asindex.html
Anglo-Saxon section of ORB: the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Offers resources for Anglo-Saxon studies: essays, bibliographies, images, electronic editions, and links. |
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Anglo-Saxon Civilization - http://www.netserf.org/Civilizations/Anglo_Saxon/
Anglo-Saxon section of the NetSERF medieval site. Includes subsections on Anglo-Saxon civlization, art, archaeology, laws, and chronicles. |
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The Anglo-Saxon Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505a.htm
Catholic Encyclopedia article on the role of the Church in Anglo-Saxon life. Covers the Anglo-Saxon occupation of Britain, the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, papal authority, ecclesiastical organization and observances, missions, and the religious basis of Anglo-Saxon art and literature. |
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Glossed texts at University of Virginia - http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/anthology
Includes a number of poems and prose excerpts. In each text, each Old English word is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary definition. |
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Anglo-Saxon Literature - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17101
A history and study of Old English literature by John Earle, Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. Project Gutenberg eBook. |
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Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature - http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com
An introduction to the idea of the apocalypse in Old-English, as part of an MA thesis. Includes Old English and modern English versions of several works with apocalyptic themes. |
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http://www.toebi.org.uk/ - http://www.toebi.org.uk/
Home page of Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland. Contains organizational news, a set of frequently asked questions about Old English, and lists of resources for learning Old English and studying Old English literature. |
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In Parentheses Old English Series - http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Old_English.html
Includes modern English translations of several Old English poems and selected prose works. |
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Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project - http://anglosaxonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Provides modern English translations of Old English narrative poems. By Aaron Hostetter. Work in progress. |
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Glossed Texts at University of Calgary - http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/index.htm
Includes a number of Old English poems and prose excerpts with glossaries. Text and glossary appear in different frames. Each word of text is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry. Site also provides links to electronic editions of other poems and prose. |
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A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon England - http://www.regia.org/history.htm
A short survey of Anglo-Saxon history by Ben Levick and Andrew Nicholson. Includes illustrations. |
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The Engliscan Gesižas - http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/index.html
Historical society's site covers various aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies. The online community area provides discussion forums, news, announcements, articles, and book reviews. Other pages include sound recordings of Old English poetry, a bibliography, an excerpt from an Old English course, and studies of the Anglo-Saxon calendar, ornithology, and runes. |
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Old English Texts and Translations at Brindin Press - http://www.brindin.com/pwpoth.htm#anglos
Contains several Old English poems and poetic excerpts, each with a facing modern English translation. |
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Old English Literature and Culture Resources - http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/english/E_Old.html
Links to electronic texts and online resources. At the University of Adelaide. |
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Supplemental Texts at heorot.dk - http://www.heorot.dk/beo-suppl.html
Benjamin Slade's Beowulf site provides texts and translations of several Old English poems and prose works. |
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Early Britain - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16790
A history of Anglo-Saxon England by Grant Allen. Project Gutenberg eBook. |
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The Heroic Age: Anglo-Saxon Links - http://www.heroicage.org/as.php
Index to Anglo-Saxon studies. Provides links to Anglo-Saxon biblical materials, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, archaeology, art, bibliographies, journals, Old English language, literary texts, translations, and manuscripts. Site also provides links to other early medieval categories and displays current and back issues of "The Heroic Age" online journal. |
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Old English Literature: a Hypertext Course Pack - http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/index.html
Provides hypertext editions of selected poems and prose works. Apparatus includes primary texts with running glossary and notes, reading lists, modern English translations, contextual information, and electronic resources. |
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Anglo-Saxon Calendar - http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/ASCalendar/ASCalendar.html
An online calendar created by Simon Keynes and based on a secular picture cycle, the "Labors of the Months," found in two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Each month of the calendar includes a corresponding image from each manuscript. |
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Labyrinth Library: Old English - http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=English,%20Old
An annotated list of links to electronic texts, bibliographies, and other online resources for Anglo-Saxon studies. Includes links to the complete texts of all Anglo-Saxon poems. |
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The Anglo-Saxon Bible - http://wordhord.org/nasb/
Includes authentic Old English translations of certain books of the Bible as well as translations of certain books into Old English by modern authors. Also includes Old English prayers, religious texts, and religious poems as well as Old English glosses of Latin prayers and religious texts. |
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Codex Junius 11: Biblical Anglo-Saxon Translations - http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/CodexJunius11/toc.html
Charles W. Kennedy's modern English translations of the Old English poems in the Junius Manuscript. |
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Matheliende - http://www.english.uga.edu/~mathelie/home.html
Online journal of medieval studies, published 1993-1998. Includes numerous articles on Old English literature. Full text of all issues available online. |
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Online Corpus of Old English Poetry - http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEPoetry/
Includes texts of all Old English poems. When the project is complete, each text will include a word-for-word glossary and textual notes. |
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Index to Articles by Graduate Students - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/
The filenames on this site that begin with the number 1001 are links to a set of articles on Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and culture written by graduate students at the University of Toronto. |
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Anglo-Saxon Versions of Scripture - http://www.bible-researcher.com/anglo-saxon.html
A collection of articles on the Old English versions of the Bible. Covers the history of Biblical translations in Anglo-Saxon England and includes bibliography. |
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AnsaxDat - http://raptor.library.mun.ca/LuceneSearch/?collection=ansax§ion=all&searchopt=basic
The full-text database for the Anglo-Saxon Listserv discussion group ANSAXNET. Includes all posted messages going back to 1990. Search engine enables search of subject fields of messages, search of message bodies, sender searches, date searches, searches of all fields, and combination searches. |
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Anglo-Saxon Literature - http://www.bartleby.com/65/an/AnglSxLit.html
Article on Old English literature from the Columbia Encyclopedia. |