Anglo-Saxon Discovery: Journey Through Anglo-Saxon Life and Death
Archaeology
A complete web site based around the material held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - and the work of E. T Leeds. The site was created in 2005 by the Ashmolean (Sarah Glover), Pegasus Primary School, and St Mary and John Church of England School. It was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Access to Archives initiative (A2A).
The site is aimed at primary schools (UK Key Stage 2) and covers 'Anglo-Saxon Arrival', 'Anglo-Saxon Death', 'Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire', 'Anglo-Saxon Life', 'Anglo-Saxon Kings and Kingdoms', and 'Edward Thurlow Leeds and Archaeology'.
Instructions: There are three files. Download and unzip 'Archive.zip' and you will see a folder inside called 'discovery'. This is your main folder. In that create a folder called 'discover_images' and then download and unzip 'images1.zip' and 'images2.zip' and place their contents into 'discover_images'.
Ashmolean Museum, Pegasus Primary School, and St Mary and John Church of England School
Ashmolean Museum
English
Learning with the online Thesaurus of Old English
Old English Language
This project aims to explore aspects of Anglo-Saxon language and culture through the study of Old English vocabulary arranged in semantic categories. It was supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre
General editors: Carole Hough and Christian Kay
Computing consultant: Jean Anderson
Web programmer: Flora Edmonds
Units written by: Carole Biggam, Robyn Bray, Carole Hough, Christian Kay, Cerwyss O’Hare, Rosie Robertson, Kate Wild
The first four units are essays contextualising the project:
How (and why) to use TOE
Life in Anglo-Saxon England
A Short Description of Old English
The Vocabulary of Old English
The remaining ten units are interactive sessions for class or individual use. The screen is split so that you can toggle between the Unit and TOE. Each unit has three sections. Section 1 offers a guided tour through the material, interspersed with questions inviting you to discover things for yourself. Once you have tried each question, you can click on the answer. Section 2 is a short essay on the topic, reinforcing and giving more detail on points raised in Section 1. Section 3 consists of suggestions for reading, relevant websites, and ideas for essays or projects based on the topic. Projects in particular invite you to explore TOE further.
Key terms are linked to an online glossary and can be clicked for further information. Within an entry, * indicates an item which also appears in another entry. Since the glossary is far from comprehensive, it is not available as a whole.
The ten topic units are:
5. Clothing 10. Food and drink
6. Colour 11. Landscape
7. Death 12. Plants
8. Families 13. Time
9. Farming 14. The Universe.
http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oeteach/oeteach.html
Carole Hough, Christian Kay et al.
Carole Hough, Christian Kay et al.
English
Ancestral Voices: the Earliest English Literature (Course)
Educational resource
A complete course providing an accessible introduction to the earliest extant English literature. The aim of this course is not for participants to learn to read or speak Old English; the texts explored will be offered in translation. Optional activities and directions for further exploration, however, enable those who wish to learn some Old English grammar and vocabulary to do so. This course aims to dispel the popular myth that Old English literature is either dreary or solely concerned with battles, and will introduce participants to the range of Old English literature, from stirring tales of heroism, courage, and fellowship, to poignant elegies of love and loss; from passionately devout to earthily humorous. Areas covered include: Anglo-Saxon history and culture; an introduction to Old English texts; in-depth exploration of selections from Old English texts in translation; an introduction to and taster of a variety of Old English; Old English script and runes; manuscripts; tools for close critical analysis; the heroic tradition; Beowulf; women in Anglo-Saxon culture. This submission contains all the files needed to run the course locally. Please note while every effort has been made to clear all content on the course, any items attributed to another user must be cleared for use. It can also be downloaded from http://openmoodle.conted.ox.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=18
Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
English
Old English Nerthus Lexical Database (Updated Version July 2014)
Old English language
For the latest version please see the following:
Nerthus. A lexical database of Old English. The initial headword list 2007-2009. Working Papers in Early English Lexicology and Lexicography 1 (www.nerthusproject.com/wpeelex)
Nerthus. Outline of a Lexicon of Old English. Working Papers in Early English Lexicology and Lexicography 3 (www.nerthusproject.com/wpeelex)
The aim of the Nerthus project is to provide an exhaustive description of the lexicon of Old English on the grounds of a functionally oriented linguistic theory. In its present state, the lexical database Nerthus contains ca. 30,000 entries, which can be accessed online by a web browser (www.nerthusproject.com). In the short run, Nerthus will be
concerned with word-formation phenomena mainly: while the current version offers the historical dimension, the synchronic part of the project, involving a detailed analysis of zero-derivation, affixation and compounding, is still in progress. In the medium run, the description of the lexicon of Old English will expand further into syntax by relating meaning definitions to logical structures of linguistic expressions containing lexical and syntactic information, as proposed by functional theories of language.
Javier Martín Arista (project leader), Elisa González Torres, Roberto Torre Alonso, Gema Maíz Villalta Carmen Novo Urraca, Raquel Vea Escarza, Raquel Mateo Mendaza
Nerthus Project, Universidad de La Rioja
2010
English
Yeavering Saxon Royal Palace
Archaeology
Zipped html files of the Past Perfect website, a New Opportunities Fund grant-aided project, run jointly by Durham and Northumberland County Councils. It uses the latest in virtual reality interactive technology to bring the archaeology and history of the two counties alive. The Northumbrian royal seat at Yeavering is one of seven sites featured on the website. Past Perfect provides a detailed overview of the history and archaeology of the site, including historical and cultural contexts, site maps, digital reconstructions, audio and video clips, and an archive of material relating to Yeavering.
These files are reproduced here with the kind permission of Durham and Northumberland County Councils.
For more information visit:
http://www.pastperfect.org.uk/index.html
Past Perfect Project
Past Perfect Project
Seventh century
English
Saxon House
Reconstruction
Link to website www.saxonhouse.co.uk.
A recreation of a 7th century building using authentic tools and materials. Costumes and artefacts.
Further information at www.saxonhouse.co.uk.
Steve Jones
Steve Jones
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
Learning with the Online Thesaurus of Old English (Web Archive)
Old English Language
A series of web pages based around using the Thesaurus of Old English for teaching purposes. The Thesaurus is at: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/
© University of Glasgow, and these pages were put together by Carole Biggam, Robyn Bray, Carole Hough, Christian Kay, Cerwyss O’Hare, Rosie Robertson, Kate Wild, Jean Anderson, and Flora Edmonds.
University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
English