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Old English in Middle earth Study Pack
This study pack was designed especially for anyone coming to the Anglo-Saxon language from an initial interest in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is a short and very informal introduction to Anglo-Saxon, but for many people their first…
Anglo-Saxon in Middle earth (part 2)
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…
British Elegies
These are poems that take inspiration from the Old English Elegies, transferring them to twenty-first century contexts. They have been previously published in various UK poetry magazines.
"Anglo Saxon Voices"
A two-part project, containing alliterative verse tranlations of all nine of the "elegies" and a selection of battle poems. The elegies were published in a separate chapbook in 2005, and both parts together as "Anglo Saxon Voices" in 2006, by Pipers'…
Saint and City
A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.
Poems by Maureen R. Davis
Two poems inspired by Anglo-Saxon history and literature.
On ‘Translating’ the Old English THE WANDERER and other texts
PDF introduction and link to the website of poet Michael Gibson, where he discusses his recent translations of 'The Wanderer' and 'Cædmon’s Song'. Includes a discussion of metrics, scansion and the theory of translation, and audio clips of the…
Middle Earth in Old English
In the early stages of his subcreation, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a number of new texts in Old English, in which he described the creation of the world in the Elder Days. This is my own calligraphic interpretation of one of these texts, which I made in…
Pre-print Extracts - The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
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…
The Unknown Warrior - a poem written in response to the Staffordshire Hoard displayed at Stoke-on-Trent Museum
The poem is an attempt to personalise an Ango-Saxon warrior from the fragments of archeological material available.