Old English Prose Lecture Handout
Old English literature
This is a handout with a brief bibliography of Old English prose.
Elaine Treharne
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200-2010
English
Old English Glossed Texts
Old English language
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 and choose 'Extract' in order to see the content.
Murray McGillivray
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Old English
The Coming of the English
Old English literature
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 glosses in present-day English. Please note that the *unglossed* version of the video is archived here: the glossed version is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/Leofwin2010#p/u/5/p2xBT9xyslo
Matt Love
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Old English
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1066 Read Aloud
Old English literature
Part of the entry for 1066 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, read in Old English. It describes the arrival of Duke William in Pevensey, the Battle of Hastings, and the death of Harold. The text was copied using an Old English hand. Please note that this is the *unglossed* version of the video: a glossed version is available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Leofwin2010#p/u/2/tjXmKOt7hns
Matt Love
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1066
Old English
Old English Coursepack
Old English language
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 Wanderer', 'The Wife's Lament', 'Beowulf - The Fight with Grendel, The Lament of the Last Survivor, Beowulf's Funeral', Ælfric's 'Life of St Edmund', and 'Bede's account of Cædmon'. This is a zipped file of the all the web pages. This version is as of July 2010, but the original version of 'The Dream of the Rood' was designed in the 1990s. Available online at: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/
Stuart Lee, Katharine Lindsay, Mark Faulkner, Brian Johnsrud
Contributors' own resources
Old English
Source notes for Life of St Christopher
Old English literature
This file was submitted by Prof. Jane Roberts on behalf of Pam Weisweiller, a King’s College London postgraduate who died while writing up her PhD thesis. Pam drew attention in her University of London M.A. dissertation (1985–86) to Ker’s identification of BHL nos 1768 or 1769 as closer to the Old English St Christopher than BHL no. 1766, the Acta Sanctorum text (25 July) supplied for comparison in Rypins edition (1924). In her preliminary examination of sources Mrs Weisweiller identified significant readings that point to a Munich text as perhaps being more closely related to the Old English fragment than any so far in print.
Pam Weisweiller
Pam Weisweiller
1985-1986
English
The Church and the Devils
Modern English literature
This is a novel, a murder mystery set in Northumbria around the time of the arrival of Christianity. It's loosely based on the history of Escomb church in Durham. I wrote it a long time ago; I don't know about its quality, but it was the fruit of a lot of research.
Contributor's own resource
English
Ælfric's Homilies on Esther, Judith, and the Maccabees
Old English literature
Zip file of S. D. Lee's editions of Ælfric's Homilies on Esther, Judith, and the Maccabees. These were originally my PhD thesis (King's College London, 1992) then mounted as online versions in 1997 and 1999. This is a compressed .zip file containing all the web pages and PDF documents of the site.
The homilies are, in effect, Ælfric's translations/paraphrases of the three Old Testament books. The editions contain introductory essays, explanatory notes, source tables, and glossaries.
Stuart Lee
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c.992-1005
English