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Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1911-1920. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

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,…

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…

Pre-print extracts from E. Solopova and S. Lee's 'Key Concepts in Medieval Literature' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007) with illustrative essays on Old English and the Anglo-Saxons. Can be ordered (pb/hb) at:…

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1901-1910.

Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1899

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

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

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…

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…