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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…

The first four pages of Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, CCCC MS 419, pp. 95-8. This manuscript contains fifteen Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others. Described by Ker (1957) pp. 115-6, and dated to the first half of the eleventh century.…

Miscellaneous entries: names written against runes, name glosses, a table of consanguinity, names of the months, names of the days of the week opposite chapter 8 of Bede's 'De temporibus ratione', names of fishes, and a charm 'Wid blodrine of nosu…

Glosses of a copy of Gregory the Great's 'Regula Pastoralis'. Described by Ker (1957, pp. 435-36, #361) and dated to the late 10th or early 11th century.

Ælfric's Grammar etc. Only complete copy, possibly the earliest. Contains Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary, Ælfric Bata's colloquy in Latin with occasional Old English glosses and marginalia in ink and drypoint, three further Latin colloquies and…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1836p.135.371.
Gold, rock crystal, enamel. Dated to the late 9th century. Gold tear-drop shaped frame holds an enamel base beneath a polished rock crystal, possibly a reused piece from an older object. The separate…

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…

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Nerthus. A lexical database of Old English. The initial headword list 2007-2009. Working Papers in Early English Lexicology and Lexicography 1 (www.nerthusproject.com/wpeelex)

Nerthus. Outline of…

AN00469340_001_l. Franks Casket. Lidded rectangular box made of whale-bone, carved on the sides and top in relief with scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. The base is constructed from four sides slotted and pegged into corner…

AN00227879_001_l. Iron seax, with a straight cutting edge and sharply angled back, the tang offset from the blade. One face of the blade was inset with eight decorative panels, but two are now missing. They are separated from each other by short,…