Anglo-Saxon resources for Twice-Told Tales

Anglo-Saxon language and literature in general:

• Old English Pages of Prof. Catherine Ball
• Directory of /WWW/obi/Anglo-Saxon An FTP site for Old English texts
• Voice of the Shuttle English Literature: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval pages

Beowulf

• Readings from Beowulf,  by Peter S. Baker, Professor of English, University of Virginia
• The Electronic Beowulf project

Shorter Poems and their Translators:

• The Seafarer
• Ezra Pound --At the Academy of American Poets, with links and recording of Pound reading
• Imagism Definition of the term
• Another discussion of Imagism
• The Battle of Brunanburh
•  Battle of Brunanburh web site, by Thomas Kinsella, Stockton College (includes OE and ME versions, Tennyson's translation, and various supplementary items)
•  The Battle of Brunanburh --The Old English text, from the Labyrinth
• Ša Engliscan Gesižas  has a readings page, with
• The Old English Text and Real Audio reading
• Another Modern English translation, by John Osborne
• Tennyson's Translation of "The Battle of Brunanburh" --comments by Suzanne Hader (Brown '97) from the Victorian Web--includes Hallam Tennyson's prose version
• The Battle of Maldon
• The Battle of Maldon, A Verse Translation by Douglas B. Killings
•  The Battle of Maldon--The Old English text, from the Labyrinth
• The Battle of Maldon, 991 A.D. --Particularly nice pictures and maps, with a brief account of the historical setting and consequences.
• Images from Anglo-Saxon England, by Prof. Michael Hanly, Department of English, Washington State University--includes maps and pictures of the causeway with the tide coming in.
• The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page

Course syllabus
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This page last revised on August 19, 1998.
Background textures in these pages are used by courtesy of WebGround.
The decorative motifs are from Eva Wilson, Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Craftspeople, Dover Books, 1983.