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This image depicts a sparrow in flight across Yeavering to provide us with a bird's eye view. The analogy of a sparrow flying through a Great Hall was first documented by Bede (II.13). Paulinus had tried to persuade Edwin to become a Christian, but…

Oxford University's Old English Coursepack. This online set of hypertext editions was designed for first-year undergraduates at Oxford to assist with the Mods 3a paper. It includes editions of 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The…

A series of extracts from S. Lee and E. Solopova's 'The Keys of Middle-earth' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). The books sets out to attract fans of Tolkien's fiction to the original medieval texts by providing analysis, texts in their original, and…

Zip file of S. D. Lee's editions of Ælfric's Homilies on Esther, Judith, and the Maccabees. These were originally my PhD thesis (King's College London, 1992) then mounted as online versions in 1997 and 1999. This is a compressed .zip file containing…

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…

From Videmus, the online magazine for medieval stained glass (http://www.vidimus.org/index.html): This feature supports the launch of a major campaign by the Wearmouth – Jarrow Partnership to have the remains of two Anglo-Saxon monasteries at…

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…

1066 (October 14th) is etched on every English persons' mind as the date in which the English under King Harold Godwinson lost the battle of Hastings to William Duke of Normandy who went on to conquer England.
What is less well known is just 19 days…