Old English literature (also known as Anglo-Saxon literature) refers to prose and poetry written by English authors up to the year 1100. This body of writing includes both works in Old English and works in Latin.- Category ID : 10165
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.
Includes a number of Old English texts, each with a glossary. 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.
Online translations by undergraduates at Baldwin-Wallace University. Each translation is accompanied by a preface that gives background information about the poem or prose work being translated.
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.
The Old English Newsletter. 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.
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.
Index to Anglo-Saxon studies. Provides extensive 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.
A site dedicated to editions of Old English texts that include the graphotactics of original manuscripts and to studies of these texts. Graphotactics concerns the incidence and measure of spacings between strings of written symbols of a text. In such texts both the graphic symbols and the spacings carry linguistic information. Work in progress.
Collection of freely reusable resources for learning and teaching Anglo-Saxon literature, language, history, archaeology, and other facets of the Anglo-Saxon period. Includes photographs, films, texts, presentations, databases, and course material. At Oxford University.
Volume 1, Chapters 1-7. Covers every aspect of Old English literature, including discussions of important poems and prose works and accounts of individual authors. Includes search engine.
Provides modern English translations of Old English poems. Work in progress. Ultimate goal is to translate all Old English poems. Site already contains more translated poems than any other Old English site.
An anthology of Old English poems and prose. Each word in each Old English text is linked to a Modern English definition. A free registration step is required. You must enter a user name and password to access most of the glossed texts.