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The account (abridged) by Bede of the coming of the English to Britain in the 5th century. He wrote in Latin in the 8th century, and his work was rendered into Old English a century later. The text is copied using an Old English hand, with pop-up…

'Deor' read aloud at West Stow, with accompaniment on Anglo-Saxon lyre.

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.

Scanned book.

Scanned book.

Scanned book.

Introduction
The Ruthwell Cross stands in a small church in the town of Ruthwell, just south of Dumfries, in south-west Scotland. The Cross is seventeen feet four inches tall and must sit in a well four feet deep to serve as the high cross for the…

Old English texts with frame glosses, originally hosted at the University of Calgary http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/index.htm. Please be aware that these texts are zipped files: after downloading them, you will need to right-click on them…

From Professor Murray McGillivray's online Old English course, originally located at http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/grammar/index.htm

Oxford University English Faculty examination papers for Trinity Term, 1898.