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A handout breaking Beowulf down into a series of 'times' - i) the distant past; ii) just before the fight with Grendel (e.g. 20-50 years); iii) Danish episodes; iv) intervening period (50 years); v) time of Dragon, and future.

The handout breaks…

A filmed version of the Old English poem 'The Ruin'. Dir - S. Lee; Actor - J. Miller. Filmed at old cement works near Kirtlington, Oxford.

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…

Oxford University's Old English Coursepack. This online set of hypertext editions was designed for first-year undergraduates at Oxford to assist with the Mods 3a paper. It includes editions of 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The…

A series of recordings taken from various CDs produced by The Chaucer Studio. The Chaucer Studio has an extensive range of recordings across medieval literature and has a full catalogue and online ordering at…

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic records, Vols. 1-2, 5, edited by G.P. Krapp; v. 3 by G. P. Krapp and E.V.K. Dobbie; v. 4, 6 by E.V.K. Dobbie, contains the main extant fragments of A/S poetry.
This is text 1936 from the Oxford Text Archive…

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A poem inspired by Old English literature.

This is a translation of the first nineteen lines of the Old English poem The Seafarer; I chose this section as it forms a fairly coherent whole but still gives a strong sense of the atmosphere of the poem.