Anglo-Saxon Links for the Heroic Age

Archaeology

Bath in the Saxon Period
Bristol
Bede's World
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in Durham University's Department of Archeology
The Cottom Project as a case study for the Archaeology Data Service
Council for British Archaeology
Dark Ages Site at the Dumfries Museum
Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitz Museum
The Kirkdale Sundial
Sutton Hoo National Trust Site
The Official Lindisfarne Site
Anglo Saxon search results at the British Museum
Anglo-Saxon Index at Trinity College, Cambridge
Sutton Hoo Society Page
The West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
Wharram Percy The Lost Medieval Village
Celtic & Saxon grave hills Thomas Bateman's book
Whitby Abbey an English Heritage site
East Anglian Achraeology
The Timeline of Britain in Current Archeology
Franks Casket
Anglo Saxon Ceramic Collecitons at the Ashmolean Museum
Wichamstow
Anglo-Saxon Derbyshire
The Discovery of Anglo-Saxon Churches
St. Laurence's Chapel
St. Peter's Church Baron on Humber
All Saints' Church Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex
Exeter Cathedral
Whittlewood Project Medieval Settlements and Landscapes in the Whittlewood Area
Sutton Hoo Bibliography
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Durham University
Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Fillingham Project A Late Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire
Post Roman Rural Archaology in East Anglia
Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children.
Account of the Society's Researches in the Saxon Cemetery at Sarr
The Jutish Cemetery at Lyminge
Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Excavations, Castle View, Mayfield Avenue, Dover
More Buckland from the Canterbury Trust
Crickdale Excavations in Wiltshire, 1975
Great Sites: Yeavering
Great Sites: Hamwic
A Gazetteer of Sub-Roman Britain (AD 400-600): the British Sites by Christopher A. Snyder
Roman Stone in A-S Churches
Saxon Churches in Sussex
ASKED—Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database
Words and Things: Food, Archaeology, and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England

Arts

Alfred Jewel at the Ashmolean Museum
Bayeux Tapestry
The Kingston Brooch
Corpus of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art
Exeter Cathedral
The Fuller Brooch
Representations of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Art by Eileen Harney
Ruthwell Cross from Dumfries Museum
The Saxon Lyre
The Saxon Lyre with images
The Sutton Hoo Helmet page at the British Museum
Sutton Hoo Purse Lid from the British Museum
Sutton Hoo, shield mount
The Visionary Cross Project
Rood and Ruthwell The Poem and the Cross
Anglo-Saxon Houses and Furniture on Regia Anglorum
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaology & History at University of Oxford's School of Archaeology

Bible

See Literature for texts such as Exodus and Genesis and other retellings of Biblical material

Aelfric's Preface to Genesis
Aldred's Glosses to the Gospels
The Bible in OE.
Eadwine's Psalter is being transcribed at this site
Genesis 3:1-19
Genesis 22:1-19
The Lord's Prayer in OE on Youtube read by Sondre Danielson
Polyglot Bible, includes some texts of Luke in Old and Middle English
The Prose Psalter prepared by Richard Strack
Translations and Translators of the Bible by Ian Williams
Gospel of Mark from Bright's 1905 edition
Glossary of the West Saxon Gospels by MATTIE ANSTICE HARRIS, 1889
Gospel of Luke taken from Bright's edition
The Authorship of the West Saxon Gospels by Allison Emery Drake, dissertation 1894
Old English Hexateuch

Bibliographies

The Anglo-Saxon Web Ring a bibliography of web sites
A Beowulf Bibliography
Bibliography on Adomnan
A Bibliography on Anglo-Saxon Scholars, 16c-20c by Carl Berkhout
C. P. Biggam's Anglo-Saxon Studies Bibliogarphy
Early Medieval Resources for Britian, Ireland and Brittany
An Anglo-Saxon Glossary by Carl T. Berkhout
General Anglo-Saxon Bibliographies on various subjects by Joseph Wittig of UNC
The Labyrinth: Anglo-Saxon Culture
Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History
Simon Keynes' Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon History
Sources for Late Roman Britain
Stanford's Reference for Anglo-Saxon history & Old English
UVa's Old English Language and Literature Bibliography
WEMSK Old English Literature Bibliography by James Marchand
Select Beowulf Bibliography
Weland the Smith Bibliography, Partially Annotated
Battle of Maldon
Beowulf: Bibliography
General Bibliography on Various Topics
Sancta Crux/Halig Rod: The Cross in Anglo-Saxon England Preliminary Select Bibliography
Walter J. Ong Bibliography

Christianity

DILS, Directory of Individual Liturgical Sources
The Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Letters of Boniface
Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald
Life of St. Boniface by Willibald
St. Boniface and the Conversion of Germany
Anglo-Saxon Monasticism Carrie Couvillon's Master's Thesis for Southeastern Louisiana University
Anglo-Saxon Martyrs
Life of St. Gregory—A partial Latin and English edition of this text.
The Mission of St. Augustine to the English
The Development of Christian Society in Early England by Tim Bond
Pilgrimage of Arculfus
St. Benedict's Church, Cambridge history
A Brief Life and History of St. Cuthbert
The Anglo-Saxons from "The Religion of the Teutons" by P. D. Chantepie De La Saussaye, trans. by Bert J. Vos, page 149-162
Ephraim the Syrian in England
Miscellanea Theologica
Anglo-Saxon Penitentials by Allen Frantzen
Dr. Allen J Frantzen's page on Anglo-Saxon penitentials
The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

History

Æthelwulf, King of Wessex: Early British Kingdoms page
Alfred as Educator of his people and man of letters By Stopford Brooke, 1901
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great Official Website of the British Monarchy
Angelcynn site, a group devoted to living history, a good site with history and culture resources. DOWN
Anglo-Saxon Dooms 560–975
Anglo-Saxon Law an overiew by Anthony D'Amato & Stephen B Presser
Anglo-Saxon Recipes
Anniversaries by Anglo-Saxons.net
The Battle of Fulford
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Maldon poem in Modern English
Battle of Maldon in Old English
The Battle of Maldon
Bede and Gregory's allusive angles. (The Venerable Bede and Pope Gregory the Great—Critical Essay) by Stephen J. Harris, excerpt on project MUSE
Britannica's online site, The House of Wessex
Britannica's Online Anglo-Saxon history page.
Britannica's online translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Canute the Great: Granting of Fiefs, 1028
Anglo-Saxon Charters
Chronicle of Ethelward
The Complete Alfred the Great
The Directory of Royal Genealogy has information on Anglo-Saxon Kings
Earl Godwin's Manor at Drengham
Early Laws of the English at Yale Law School's Avalon Project
The Electronic Sawyer
English Historical Documents—a contents page for this excellent work
Hereward the Wake
History of the Kings of Britain Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by J. A. Giles
History of the Monarchy—a UK government sponsored page
Jorvik Viking Center in York
Kemble Anglo-Saxons Charters
King Alfred's Literacy Program by Erich W. Guthrie
Online Medieval and Classical Library has the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle online
Online Medieval and Classical Library has the 1904 translation of Asser's Vita
Oxford Text Archive has Walter de Gray Birch's Cartularium Saxonicum, Anglo-Saxon charters.
People—includes some biographies of important personages of the period
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Regia Anglorum A Living History Site
Sam Newton's East Anglia and the Wulfings Site
Simon Keynes' Anglo-Saxon Charter Page
Statutes of William the Conqueror
Ða Engliscan Gesiþas A society interested in Anglo-Saxon History
Timeline by Anglo-Saxons.net
Tom Kinsella brings us a site on the Battle of Brunanburh
Tony Jebson's edition of the Chronicle
Tribal Hidage
The Treaty of Guthrun and Alfred at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
William of Malmesbury Chronicle of Kings of England
From DOT to Doomsday a history of Britain
Collation of the Imperial reign length data from Bede’s Mai. Chron., Jerome’s Chronicle, Annals of Tigernach (AT) and Isidore's Chronicle by D.P. Mc Carthy
Early Medieval Record-Keeping and the Nero-Middleton Cartulary
Food and Drink by Allen Frantzen
Saxons and Vikings in England
Roman Inscriptions in Britain
Roman Britain after 410—in Archaeology
Alfred the Great: Viking Wars and Military Reforms.
VASLE—Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy Project
End of Roman Britain Part 1
Words and Things: Food, Archaeology, and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
Anglo-Saxon Charters Homepage
Anglo-Saxon Charter Boundaries Material
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at OMACL
The Kings of Wessex and England 802-1066

General

Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury, by M. R. James
Anglo-Saxon Culture
Anglo-Saxon Education
Anglo-Saxon Maps, by Simon Keynes
Dragons in the Sky a collection of essays on Anglo-Saxon culture and language in comparison with today
Maps, both large and small at Anglo-Saxons.net
Maps of Anglo-Saxon England
The Study of Latin and English at Winchester by Charles Stone
Interactive Map of Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon Weights and Measures
Index Britanniae Scriptorum Quos Ex Variis Bibliothecis Non Parvo Labore ... By John Bale, Reginald Lane Poole, Mary Bateson
The Battlesfield Trust—a site that covers all English history, but preserves and comments on many Anglo-Saxon era battles.
Maldon at the Wuffings Site
Maldon and Moria—on the influence of the poem on Tolkien.
Jonathan A. Glenn'S TRANSLATION
Baker's Edition for his grammar
Anglo-Saxon Culture by Michael Delahoyde at Washington State University
Anglo-Saxonists from the 16th through the 20th Century, assembled by Carl T. Berkhout, Dept of English, University of Arizona

Language and Learning Old English

Bright's Old English Glossary Project
Carl Berkhout's Wordhord
Dictionary of Old English
The Electronic Introduction to Old English, by Peter Baker, housed at the Rawlinson Center site, WMU
The Englisc List homepage
Impact of Latin on Old English by Edward Moore
Introductory Glossary and Translation Guide
King Alfred's Grammar by Michael Drout and Steven Harris
Learning Old English by Tony Jebson
Linguistic Attractors an examination of Old English linguistics from this theoretical viewpoint
Modern English-Old English Wordlist
Murray McGillivray's Online Old English Course
Old English Graphotactics
Old English Historical Grammar
Old English Made Easy
Old English Paradigms
Old English Sound System by Robert Stevick
Paradigms in a color chart, PDF format, from Peter Baker
Steve Harris' ASPR Parser—very handy tool
Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact by Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor
First Lesson in Old English at Da Engliscan Gesidas
Online Old English Paradigms Project
Learning with the Thesaurus of Old English
Bosworth and Toller Online
B and T again
B and T Freeware—search Bosworth and Toller on your desktop.
Thesaurus of Old English
Golden Age of Northumbria
OEN's Concordance Tool, Concord-o-matic
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J. R. Clark Hall
Anglo-Saxon Primer, by Henry Sweet
Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book by C. Alphonso Smith
Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book by C. Alphonso Smith
Anglo-Saxon Primer, by Henry Sweet
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J. R. Clark Hall
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W Skeat

Literature

Complete Corpus of Old English Compliled by the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies
Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
Metric syntactic scan of the Anglo-Saxon poetic records
Anglo-Saxon Aloud—an online, audio reading of the Anglo-Saxon Poetric Records in Old English
Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project offers translations in an ongoing project
Words and Things: Food, Archaeology, and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England
Wessex Parallel Web TextsProject: Mostly Middle English, also has some early ME texts/translations
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Project Gutenberg
Anglo-Saxon literatureby John Earle
Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburh in Old English
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and The Dream of the Rood; Anglo-Saxon Poems translated by James M. Garnett, M.A., LL.D.,
Anglo-Saxon Riddles #23, 25, 43, in Anglo-Saxon and English

Authors

Aelfric

Aelfric's Homilies on Judith, Esther, and Maccabbees
On The Seasons of the Year
Life Of St. Edmund
On the False Gods
Life of St. Agnes
Life of St. Lucy
Alia Visio
The Colloquy
On the Seasons of the Year in modern English by Peter Baker
Preface to Genesis
Preface to the First Series of the Catholic Homilies

Alcuin

A Biography of Alcuin
Catholic Encyclopedia Entry on Alcuin
Life of St. Vedastus
Life of St. Willibrord
De Disputatio de Rhetorica
De Luscinia
Versus de Cuculo
Conflictus Veris et Hiemis
Dilectissimo Aquilae Albinus Matricularius Perpetuae Beatitudinis in Christo Salutem
Sequentia de Sancto Michaele
Epitaphium
Cella Alcuini
Propositiones
De Rhetorica a downloadable text from Angus Graham (the Halm text of 1863)

Aldhelm

Aldhelm at the Britannia site
Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Aldhelm
Myrmicoleon Riddle in Latin and English

Alfred

CHEAL on Alfred's Translations of Bede
The Old English Orosious is available at Oxford Text Archive. Search for Orosious, or browse under Old English Language
Alfred's translation of Augustine's Soliloquies is also available at Oxford Text Archive
Laws of Alfred and Ine
Meters of Boethius in translation
Preface to the Pastoral Care
Sedgefield's Modern English translation of Alfred's Boethius.
Edition of King Alfred’s Old English Translation of Augustine's Soliloquies, with supplements
Or here

Asser

Life of Alfred, the 1904 translation at OMACL

Bede

Work on Bede

Bede.net
Bede's life at the ORB
Bede's World
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21)
A Brief Introduction to Bede
Plummer's Bede available at Google
Collation of the Imperial reign length data from Bede’s Mai. Chron., Jerome’s Chronicle, Annals of Tigernach (AT) and Isidore’s Chronicle by D.P. Mc Carthy
Theological Works of the Venerable Bede and their Literary and Manuscript Presentation,with Special Reference to the Gospel Homilies

Bede's Works

Bede's Ecclesiastical History at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, all 5 books.
Another translation of the Historia
Miller's translation of the OE Bede
Life of Cuthbert Also housed at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
The Lives of the Holy Abbots of Wearmouth-Jarrow
De Die Iudicii, a poem ascribed to Bede
The Death Song, Northumbrian Version
The Death Song, The Hague Version
The Death Song, The West Saxon Version
Bede's Commentary on the Apocalypse in Latin and English, from the ORB
Another Translation of the Apocalypse Commentary
OE Bede treatment of the Caedmon Story
Old English version by Heorot
Partial edition of the Latin
Letter to Ecgbert from the Oxford Text Archive, Latin text

Cynewulf

Christ I, II, III, Kennedy translation in PDF format
Elene, the Kennedy translation in PDF
Article on Cynewulf from Catholic Encyclopedia
Fates of the Apostles, Kennedy translation
Article on Cynewulf from Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Juliana, Kennedy translation in PDF
The Riddle of the Runes: the Runic Passage in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles by Raymond Gleason in Essays in Medieval Studies #9
Elene translated by Holt, available at Project Gutenberg

Wulfstan

Wulfstan by Melissa Bernstein
Eschatological Homilies by Joyce Tally Lionarons
Bibliotecha Augustana offers three versions of the Sermo

Works

Andreas

Kennedy's Translation in a PDF file.

Apollonius of Tyre

Battle of Burnanburh

Tom Kinsella's Brunanburh site. See also the Labyrinth and ASPR sites listed below for poem editions.
At the Stav Library-The Old English text
Modern English by John Osborne
The Battle of Brunanburgh on YouTube read by Michael DC Drout

The Battle of Finnsburh

Bibliotecha Augustana
Finnsburh at Beowulf on Steorarume
Cambridge History entry on the fragment
The Literary Encyclopedia

Battle of Maldon

Battle of Maldon site, includes commentary, maps, photographs, etc.
Bibliotecha Augustana edition of the poem
Battle of Maldon—the most complete site on the battle and poem.
Jame Grout on the poem and battle
Maeldune - Light on Maldon's Distant Past
Battle of Maldon at the UK Battlefields Resource Centre
Byrhtnoth's Challenge from the poem in Old English on YouTube

Beowulf

Electronic Beowulf Project
CHEL section on Beowulf
Ann Savage's Hypertext Edition, includes discussion of author, history, manuscript, interpretation etc.
Beowulf on Steorarume
Harvard Classics translation of Beowulf by Francis B. Gummere
Beowulf—a humorous treatment
Klaeber's edition of Beowulf online, sans notes
Roy Liuzza's online study guide
Readings from Beowulf
Why Bother With Beowulf an article at About.com
Finding Beowulf in Kent's Landscape an article by Paul Wilkinson
Annotated List of Beowulf Translations by Marijane Osborn, hosted at ACMRS.
Thorkelin's Translation of the poem into Latin
Beowulf: Bibliography
Concordance to Beowulf by A. C. Cook.
A Beowulf Timeline
Beowulf Notes and Outline
Christian Elements in Beowulf

Blickling Homilies

The Blickling Homilies Morris' translation
Blickling X
CHEL on the homilies
Princeton Digital Collections of the mss

Caedmon's Hymn

Caedmon's Hymn the Old English Account
Old English version by Heorot
Bede's treatment of the Caedmon Story with Latin and Old English examples

Charms

Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms in Anglo-Saxon and Modern English
Karen Jolly's Charms page

Christ and Satan

Christ and Satan Kennedy translation

Daniel

Daniel Kennedy translation in PDF format

Deor

Ða Engliscan Gesiðas has an edition and translation of the poem.
Anglo-Saxons.net offer an edition and translation
Deor an edition and new translation from Heorot

Dream of the Rood

Edition and glossary from Dr. Murray McGillivray
Dream by Jonathan Glenn with notes.
At Apocalyptic Theories
The Earliest English Poem
The Literary Encyclopedia article by Elaine Treharne
An Electronic Edition
The Dream of the Rood and the Image of Christ in the Early Middle Ages By Jeannette C Brook
Rood and Ruthwell

Exodus

Exodus in the Kennedy translation, PDF format

Guthlac

Guthlac A and B , the Kennedy translation in PDF format

Husband's Message

Husband's Message

Judgement Day I

Judgement Day I Old English version and translation

Judgement Day II

Judgement Day II

Judith

St Mary of Egypt

New Textual Evidence on St. Mary of Egypt—a thesis by Linda Miller Cantara

The Physiologus

The Old English Physiologus and the Homiletic Tradition by D. R. Letson
The Old English Physiologus in the Exeter Book by David Badke

Phoenix

Phoenix, Kennedy translation in PDF format

Riddles

A translation of Riddles 14, 16, 26, 42, and 60
Riddles of the Exeter Book
Riddles, an introduction by Hazel Brewer
The Riddle Group provides text, Craig Williamson's translation, and other materials for the study of the Riddles
Riddles 45, 76, 25, 23, and 27 from Craig Williamson's site for his Old English classes, each comes with text, translation, and commentary as well as translation helps in the text, and audio files

The Ruin

Text and translation
Text and translation by Sian Echard

Rune Poem

Rune Poem
The Rune Poem
Translation by Bruce Dickens
Rune Poems at The Viking Page, includes Old Norse versions
Rune Poems at Northvegr

Seafarer

Anglo-Saxons.net offer an edition and translation
Apocalyptic Themes has the ASPR text and Bradley's translation online
Cambridge has provided a selection in pdf format of Richard Marsden's newish reader, includes The Seafarer with an introduction, the text, with vocabulary and explanatory notes.
A translation by Gavin Bantock
Ezra Pound's translation
The Seafarer, a good site including the Old English, modern translations, essays, criticism, et al.
Literary Encyclopedia on Wisdom Poetry, including this one
Celtica has some issues online with articles in pdf, this one titled The Seafarer and the birds: An Irish Parallel" by Nicholas Jacobs
Translation with notes

Soul and Body I

Soul and Body I

The Voyage of Ohtere

Ohtere

Waldere A and B

The Wanderer

Tim Romano's E-edition of the poem.
Anglo-Saxons.net offers an edition and translation
Edition and glossary from Murray McGillivray
Wanderer Project
Edition by Peter Baker
An Introduction useful for teaching
Audio reading at the Norton site
An Edition with notes

Widsith

Bella Millet offers a translation
The Norton Anthology's page on the poem
The Myth of the Anlgo-Saxon Oral Poet by John Niles
CHEL on the poem

Wife's Lament

Wulf and Eadwacer

Wulf and Eadwacer In Intermediate Saxon at Georgetown
Wulf and Eadwacer 1934 translation by W.S. Mackie
Wulf & Eadwacer read aloud by Michael D.C. Drout

Codex Junius 11

Online Medieval and Classical Library hosts translations of the contents of Junius 11.
Genesis Genesis A & B)
Exodus
Daniel
Christ and Satan
Codex Junius 11 with Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan, translated into English

The Vercelli Book

digital Vercelli Book
The Vircelli Book Georgetown's website
Andreas in Anglo Saxon
Andreas Charles W. Kennedy's translation
Fates of the Apostles in Anglo-Saxon
The Fates of the Apostles Charles W. Kennedy's translation
Soul and Body I in Anglo-Saxon
Homiletic Fragment I in Anglo-Saxon
Dream of the Rood in Anglo-Saxon
The Dream of the Rood Jonathan A Glenn's 1982 translation
Elene in Anglo-Saxon
Cynewulf's Elene translated on Project Gutenberg

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records

Table of Contents By Poem:

The Complete corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry at the New Northvegr Center
Aldhelm
Andreas
Beowulf BL Cotton Vitellius A XV.
Judith BL Cotton Vitellius A XV.
The Battle of Brunanburh
The Battle of Finnsburh
The Battle of Maldon
Bede's Death Song: Northumbrian Version
Bede's Death Song: The Hague Version
Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version
Caedmon's Hymn: Northumbrian Version
Caedmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version
The Capture of the Five Boroughs
Christ and Satan
The Coronation of Edgar
The Death of Edgar read in Anglo-Saxon from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicale Entry for 975 AD
The Creed
Daniel
The Death of Edward
Dream of the Rood
Elene
Genesis A, B
Exodus
The Fates of the Apostles
Soul and Body I
Homiletic Fragment I
Christ A, B, C in the Exeter Book
Guthlac A, B in the Exeter Book
Azarias in the Exeter Book
The Phoenix in the Exeter Book
Juliana in the Exeter Book
The Wanderer in the Exeter Book
The Gifts of Men
Precepts
The Seafarer
Vainglory
Widsith
The Fortunes of Men
Maxims I
The Order of the World
The Riming Poem
The Panther
The Whale
The Partridge
Soul and Body II
Deor
Wulf and Eadwacer
Riddle 1
Riddle 2
Riddle 3
Riddle 4
Riddle 5
Riddle 6
Riddle 7
Riddle 8
Riddle 9
Riddle 10
Riddle 11
Riddle 12
Riddle 13
Riddle 14
Riddle 15
Riddle 16
Riddle 17
Riddle 18
Riddle 19
Riddle 20
Riddle 21
Riddle 22
Riddle 23
Riddle 24
Riddle 25
Riddle 26
Riddle 27
Riddle 28
Riddle 29
Riddle 30
Riddle 31
Riddle 32
Riddle 33
Riddle 34
Riddle 35
Riddle 36
Riddle 37
Riddle 38
Riddle 39
Riddle 40
Riddle 41
Riddle 42
Riddle 43
Riddle 44
Riddle 45
Riddle 46
Riddle 47
Riddle 48
Riddle 49
Riddle 50
Riddle 51
Riddle 52
Riddle 53
Riddle 54
Riddle 55
Riddle 56
Riddle 57
Riddle 58
Riddle 59
The Wife's Lament
The Judgment Day I
Resignation
The Descent into Hell
Alms-Giving

The Labyrinth Old English Library

Their Table of Contents By Work:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

The Kentish Hymn

L

M

O

The Order of the World

P

R

S

T

Thureth

V

Vainglory

W

Manuscripts

Studies

Book Production and Distribution by Nikki Hessell
British Library's Manuscript Catalogue Main page
British Library's Tour of Medieval Manuscripts Online
Daniel O'Donnell: Manuscript Variation in Multiple Recension Old English Poetic Texts: The Technical Problem and Poetic Art"
Glossaries, a short introduction by Antonette diPaolo Healey
Iron Ink Gall Corrosion
The Iron Gall Ink Website
Corrosive Media a page on Iron Gall Ink Corrosion from the Library of Congress
Medieval Writing
Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books by Ernest A. Savage
New Textual Evidence on St. Mary of Egypt—a thesis by Linda Miller Cantara
Symbols of the Evangelists a page by Felix Just, of Loyola, not directly Medieval, but very useful, with images from medieval manuscripts, listed below
Kristeller Latin Manuscripts Books Before 1600, online
Evolution of the Medieval Book at Cornell Library
'Their Present Miserable State of Cremation': the Restoration of the Cotton Library by Andrew Prescott
Doomsday Book
Early Insular Illuminated Manuscripts: Merging of Oral and Literate Cultures
MANCASS—Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies: An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English

Images

Beowulf Manuscript: Images at The Electronic Beowulf Project
MS. Auct. F. 4. 32: St. Dunstan's Classbook
MS. Bodl. 572: Codex Oxoniensis Posterior Bodleian Library
The Leofric Missal
Lindisfarne Gospels: The Lindisfarne Gospels at the Turning the Pages site of the BL
MS Junius 11: Cædmon manuscript at the Bodleian Library
MS. Rawl. Q. e. 20Life of St. Basil in Old English, Bodleian Library
Corpus Christi College MS. 197Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English
Corpus Christi College MS. 279BOld English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
St. John's Oxford has 2 manuscripts containing Martyrdoms of Saints Peter and Paul in Anglo-Caroline script and Gregory I's Regula Pasotralis in Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
St. John's College MS. 154: Aelfric's Grammar
Carl Berkhout provides links to Anglo-Saxon manuscripts on his web page
CEU provides a general web page on manuscripts, paleography, and codicology at Medieval Manuscript Manual
Cambridge MS R .17.1 (The Eadwine Psalter): Folio 66 at Karen Jolly's Medieval History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa site
BL Cotton Julius A.vi: Calendar & Labours of Months, posted by Simon Keynes
St. Petersburg Gospels: Incipit to St. John's Gospel, posted by Simon Keynes
Athelstan Psalter: Folio 2r (Christ Enthroned) posted by Simon Keynes
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. B. 11. 2 (241): Initials from The Trinity Amalarius (mid-tenth century), posted by Simon Keynes
Lichfield, Cathedral Library, 'Gospels of St Chad': Folio 71r and detail, posted by Simon Keynes
London, BL Add. 49598, the Benedictional of Aethelwald: Folios 4v–5r (Godeman), Folios 90v–91r (St Æthelthryth) and Folios 91v–92r (Blessing for St Æthelthryth), posted by Simon Keynes
Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS. Y.7 (369): Pentecost from the 'Benedictional of Archbishop Robert' (c. 980), posted by Simon Keynes
London, British Library, MS. Stowe 944: Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester (1031) has its own separate page with links to images, posted by Simon Keynes
London, British Library, MS. Add. 33241, The Encomium Emmae Reginae (1041-2): Queen Emma and Folio 1v–2r (The opening), posted by Simon Keynes
Anglo-Saxon Charters contains images of several charters, posted by Simon Keynes
Cotton Ms. Vespasian A. i.Folio 30v
Cotton Vitellius A.xv, Beowulf at the Old English Manuscripts Database
Life of St Edward the Confessor at the Cambridge Digital Library

Popular Manuscripts

Many sites have images of popular and well known manuscripts such as Durrow and Kells. Rather than list the sites and then the images, I have opted to list the folio's with links to the various sites, hopefully avoiding confusion.

Introduction to the Junius MS. from ORB—no images, just information and bibliography
Exeter Book—also from ORB
Vercelli Book—also from ORB
The Domesday Book Online
Life of St. Edward the Confessor at the Cambridge Digital Library

Codex Aureus

The inscription—the Old English inscription on the Christi Autem Page
Early Medieval Art page with front and back covers of the Codex Aureus among other images
Several Images from Aureus
Several images here.
Fol 6rAdoration of the Lamb and at an alternative site
The Old English Inscription magnified

Lindisfarne Gospels, London, British Library, Cotton Ms. Nero D. 1. v

British Library has an exhibit in connection with Michelle Brown's new book on the Lindisfarne Gospels
Lindisfarne Gospels Lindisfarne Gospels has a link on the British Library's Turn The Pages feature
Carpet Page
Matthew
Image of Matthew
Fol 93v Mark
Fol 137v Luke
Fol 209v John
Carpet Pages at the Lindisfarned Gospels Tour on the British Library website

Organizations and Research Projects

Ambrose in Anglo-Saxon England with Pseudo-Ambrose and Ambrosiaster (SASLC)
Anglo-Saxon Plants
Fontes Anglo Saxonici
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Royal Historical Society
Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
Venerable English College, Rome
Langscape
Department of ASNC: Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at Cambridge

Pre-Christian Religions

Links last verified and checked 25 September 2012.

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