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3.6 Further and optional reading and resources

Books

Goring, P., Hawthorn, J. and Mitchell, D. 2003 Studying Literature: the Essential Companion, London, Arnold.

Royle, N. and Bennett, A. 2004 An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 3rd edn, Harlow, Longman.

Websites

Peter S. Baker. Introduction to Old English,  chapters 13 and 16.

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.

British Library, British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.

British Library learning resource Fathom.

Ða Engliscan Gesiðas (the society for people interested in all aspects of Anglo-Saxon language and culture).

Georgetown University, preparation of manuscripts, the Old English Excel Database and the Old English Manuscripts Online Database.

Home.comcast.net, Old English dictionaries.

Tony Jebson, Learn Old English (a basic introduction).

Barry Laga at Mesa State University, the Critical Reading website.

John Lye, Critical Reading: a Guide (online guide to literary criticism).

Omniglot.

Anne Savage, McMaster University, Beowulf in Hypertext.

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