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This is the second part of the study pack created especially for anyone coming to Anglo-Saxon from an original interest in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Like Part 1, it has been available on the Tolkien Society website and in hard copy since it…

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic records, Vols. 1-2, 5, edited by G.P. Krapp; v. 3 by G. P. Krapp and E.V.K. Dobbie; v. 4, 6 by E.V.K. Dobbie, contains the main extant fragments of A/S poetry.
This is text 1936 from the Oxford Text Archive…

British Museum presentation and notes on the Anglo-Saxons and the discoveries at Sutton Hoo. All these notes are © Trustees of the British Museum.

Notes to support class visits to Bishops Wood Centre in Worcestershire for the Saxon Settlers programme. While particularly relevant to Worcestershire and supporting the activities that pupils carry out during their visit to the centre much of this…

British Museum set of visit notes for teachers, on the Anglo-Saxons, Sutton Hoo, and the Vikings. All these are © Trustees of the British Museum.

This is the text and translation of the earliest romance in English, Apollonius of Tyre. It is contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, and appears in edited form in Treharne, Anthology of Old and Middle English, 890-1450, 3rd ed.…

Article by Francis Leneghan (was Trinity College Dublin, now St Peter's College, Oxford). Originally published in the Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Postgraduate Conference (March 2005).

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…

This is from Treharne, Old and Middle English, 890-1450: An Anthology, 3rd ed. (Blackwell, 2009)

An account of the Battle of Maldon, with a present-day English introduction, images from the site and extracts in Old English from the poem with present-day English translations.