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Napier Pamphlets Box LX-LXII Child Jesus-Judith-Old Kentish Glosses and Junius 27
These pamphlets formed part of the collection of Professor Arthur Napier, which was acquired by the University after his death. They are reproduced by kind permission of the Oxford University English Faculty Library. Please note that these are zipped…
Napier Pamphlets Box LXXIII-LXXIIIb Phonology, Consonants and Vowels
These pamphlets formed part of the collection of Professor Arthur Napier, which was acquired by the University after his death. They are reproduced by kind permission of the Oxford University English Faculty Library. Please note that these are zipped…
Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems - N. Kershaw
Scanned book.
Tuesday Poem – “Wulf and Eadwacer”
This is a blog post by writer Joanna Preston discussing 'Wulf and Eadwacer' from a poet's perspective. The translation provided is a composite made up of translations found on the web. Please note that this is a zipped file: in order to read it,…
The Colouring of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses
These notes describe a project carried out at the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester as part of the redisplay of the museum galleries in 1999-2000, to recolour a set of casts of the crosses at Bewcastle and Ruthwell churches acquired…
An Anglo-Saxon surname?
It seems likely that the surname Chessell arose from a place-name originally meaning ‘chest hill’. At least two places in England at one time were known as Chesthill or variations on that name in accordance with Old English (Anglo-Saxon)…
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…
"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'…