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This is a zipped file of all the original material used in the computer-based 'Beowulf Workstation'. This was written in HyperCard on the Apple Macintosh, late c. 1990 by Professor Patrick Conner at West Virginia University to help students study and…

Scanned book.

Children's drawings from the Ashmolean Museum's 'Anglo-Saxon Discovery' exhibition and website.

'Embroidery in Anglo-Saxon England', an A5 book self-published by Elizabeth Norton in the 1990s. A catalogue record is available from the British Library, but the book is now out of print.
ISBN - 0 9521581 1 6.
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Author's own…

Traditionally, Old English grammars and manuals have focused too much on morphology and phonology, leaving quite aside the study of syntax (word order). Even today, very few publications contain exercises specifically designed to practise Old English…

This is a little tool for beginners to help them find the infinitive of OE verbs in a dictionary or glossary from inflected forms. The diagram is a very basic thing and therefore does not account for the many exceptions in the inflexion of OE verbs…

A handout breaking Beowulf down into a series of 'times' - i) the distant past; ii) just before the fight with Grendel (e.g. 20-50 years); iii) Danish episodes; iv) intervening period (50 years); v) time of Dragon, and future.

The handout breaks…

A short animated video clip presenting some basic phrases in Old English relating to the family. I hope to create more of these as time allows. Leofwin and his family are based on the characters of a book teaching everyday Old English as a living…

This project aims to explore aspects of Anglo-Saxon language and culture through the study of Old English vocabulary arranged in semantic categories. It was supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre

General…

A series of web pages based around using the Thesaurus of Old English for teaching purposes. The Thesaurus is at: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/
© University of Glasgow, and these pages were put together by Carole Biggam, Robyn…