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Dictionaries & Word-Lists

Old English Made Easy (including two-way OE-MnE, MnE-OE dictionary) http://home.comcast.net/~modean52

Bosworth & Toller "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary" (scanned pages) http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm ; (pages of the above can also be accessed like this http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/B.htm , etc.)

Anglo-Saxon dictionaries of Bosworth & Toller, and of JR Clark Hall, together with works on Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Frisian, etc. at Sean Crist's Indo-European Language Resources: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html

Bekie Marett's digitisation of Bosworth & Toller "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary"--also under construction: http://dontgohere.nu/oe/as-bt/
http://bosworthandtoller.co.uk
http://bosworthandtoller.com

Thesaurus of Old English http://leo.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/

Middle English Dictionary (Skeat & Mayhew)
http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/MTC
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

 

Texts

The Orb (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies): A pageful of links (including several online editions, among them the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Wulf & Eadwæcer, etc.)
http://the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/asindex.html

Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright%27s_Anglo-Saxon_Reader

Labyrinth Library: Old English http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html ; A-Z of Old English poetry, http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/alpha.html

Old English Pages (The Labyrinth: Old English links)
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=English,%20Old

Resources in Old English (links including texts, fonts, courses, dictionaries) http://www.aprendelo.com/rec/resources-in-old-english.html

Anglo-Saxon Charters http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/charthome.html

Beowulf & other OE poems + edition, translation, notes, essays + massive collection of links on early Germanic languages and literature
http://www.heorot.dk

Beowulf in Hypertext http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/

Perseus (Beowulf (Klaeber edition, Garnet edition)) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection.jsp?collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGermanic

Beowulf + The Fight at Finnsburh (Harrison & Sharp edition) http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg/etext06/8bwlf10ha.htm

The Joy of Alliteration: Beowulf + Widsith + Gawain & the Green Knight (parallel texts & translations) http://www.earlypoetry.co.uk/

Physiologus + Beowulf (ed. Harrison) + Beowulf (ed. Sharp) http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ang

Readings of Old English Poetry (Sound files + OE text + translations of Deor, Brunanburh & The Funeral of Scyld Scefing) http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/readings.html

Old English Poetry Links http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/Petryrooms/uk_oldenglish.html

Riddles (OE text + translations) http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/

The Seafarer http://212.67.202.29/~cichw/main.htm#mi

Anglo-Saxons Net (maps, timelines, charters + texts & translations of The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor and the Old Norse Hávamál) http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/

Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (online edition + translation) http://english3.fsu.edu/~wulfstan/

Wulfstan's Eschatalogical Homilies (online edition + translation) http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/Wulfstan.html

The Blickling Homilies (links to text and translation may be invisible, in black on black background, but can be found just under the main title)
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mjtoswel/blickling%20homepage.htm

The Blickling Homilies (translation R Morris) http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Blickling_Morris.pdf

King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendious History of the World by Orosius (ed. Joseph Bosworth, 1859) Google Books

Þa halgan Godspel on Englisc: The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Holy Gospels (ed. Benjamin Thorpe, 2nd edition, 1884) Google Books

Wulf and Eadwæcer
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/wulf/

The Wife's Lament: Hypertext Edition http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/coursepack/wifeslament/index.html

The Dream of the Rood (Modern English, Old English + Runic) http://www.flsouthern.edu/eng/abruce/rood/ROODTEXT/ALL~1.HTM

The Dream of the Rood (OE text + verse translation) http://www.stephen-spender.org/SSMTrust/ssmt_evPrizeOver18_01.htm

The Voyage of Ohthere (Old & Modern English) http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/ohthtext.htm

Biblioteca Augustana http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html

Düsseldorf Chair of Medieval English Literature and Historical Linguistics: Online Library (Old and Middle English and other medieval texts) http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/html/online_lib.html

Ælfric's Natale Sancte Agnetis http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/5547/agnes.html http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/aelfric/agnes.html

Anthology of Middle English literature (1350-1485) http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/index.html

Middle English Texts http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/html/me_texts.html

Electronic Texts Archive (Middle English texts) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html

Days of the Moon (Middle English poems) http://www.lnstar.com/literature/middle_english/toc.htm

York Mystery Plays http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/yorkplays/york.html

Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawain.htm

The Alliterative Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/Morte.txt http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/alliterative_morte_arthure.htm

http://quartet.cs.unb.ca/tapor/cgi-bin/view-works.cgi?c=middleen.1448&pos=37

The Stanzaic Morte d'Arthur and the Alliterative http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/alstint.htm

Alliteration: A Treasury of Alliterative and Accentual Poetry http://alliteration.net/

Records of Early English Drama http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/#r_and_r

 

Grammars & Lessons

University of Calgary Old English Lessons, Grammar & Texts http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/lessons/index.htm

Online book: "(The Electronic) Introduction to Old English" by Peter S Baker http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/

Old English: An Introduction, Professor Raymond Saint-Jacques http://137.122.151.29/ENG3316B/index.htm

Swathmore College: OE lessons based on five riddles (45, 76, 25, 23, 27) http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/english/oldenglish/

 

Articles, Essays & Academic Papers

A History of Old English Metre (RD Fulk) http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=43171171

Diccionario sintáctico del léxico verbal del inglés antiguo: Verbos de habla (Marta González Orta) ftp://tesis.bbtk.ull.es/ccssyhum/cs136.pdf

The Origins of Old English Morphology (Stefan Höfler) http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s0450313/3dpaper.pdf

The Syntax of Genitive Constructions in Old English:
placement of genitive phrases in Ælfric’s second series of
Catholic Homilies (Helen R McLagan) http://eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00002603/01/Thesis_HMcLagan_new_distilled.pdf

Alliteration & Sound Change in Early English (Donka Minkova; book extract) http://assets.cambridge.org/052157/3173/sample/0521573173ws.pdf

Reconstructing an Oral Tradition: Problems in the Comparative Metrical
Analysis of Old English, Old Saxon and Old Norse Alliterative Verse
(Douglas Simms) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2003/simmsdpa036/simmsdpa036.pdf

Loss and Consequence: An examination of the Old English Case Marking System as Opposed to that of Other Old Germanic Languages (Denise E Walters) http://www.colorado.edu/ling/CRIL/Volume17_Issue1/paper_WALTERS.pdf

An alliterative study of the sound values of initial h + sonorant' clusters in Beowulf: Is the initial h a diacritic mark or not? (Tomonori Yamamoto) http://www.flet.keio.ac.jp/~colloq/articles/backnumb/Col_26_yamamoto.pdf (Argues that h can't be a mere diacritic in these letter combinations, since they alliterate with each other and with h + vowel. But this doesn't take into account the power of tradition, by which for example the velar variants of g and c each alliterate with their platalised variants, in spite of having different sounds (e.g. line 1), while at the same time palatalised g also alliterates with the OE reflex of Proto-Geramnic [j] (line 1075). Further, any vowel could alliterate with any other. Contrariwise, in some combinations the same sound might be forbidden from alliterating (sp, st). Such conventions, which go back to a time long before the poem was composed, mean that the rules of OE versification can't by themselves be used in this way to establish how the poet spoke.)

Studies in the Dialects of the Kentish Charters of the Old English Period (William Frank Bryan) http://www.archive.org/stream/studiesindialect00bryarich#page/n3/mode/2up

 

Miscellaneous

Resources in Old English (links including texts, fonts, courses, dictionaries) http://www.aprendelo.com/rec/resources-in-old-english.html

Google Anglo-Saxon literature links http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/British/Anglo-Saxon/

Syd Allen's Beowulf Pages (background information) http://www.jagular.com/beowulf/index.shtml

Old English at Royal Holloway, University of London http://www.rhul.ac.uk/English/Old-English/index.html

Ða Engliscan Gesiðas http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk

Englisc List http://www.rochester.edu/englisc/

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe http://www.heroicage.org/

Manuscript Images http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Tour/Manuscript.images/Manuscript.Images.html

 

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