ENG 263: Old English

Hatton ms., Bodleian Library, Oxford

St. Petersburg ms., National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg

a poetry video

Cotton Tiberias ms, British Library, London (note the fire damage from 1731)

ms. Cotton Vitellius, British Library, London

electronic edition with a short recitation (U of Kentucky)

masterful reconstruction of how the poem might have been presented (Unferth's taunt is at minute 45)

Vercelli Book, Capitulary Library, Vercelli, Italy.

"Survive the Jive" documentary shot by Thomas Rowsell

video

video

BBC

Cotton Nero ms, British Library, London

Cotton Nero ms, British Library, London

MS58_001r, Trinity College, Dublin (created on Iona, off the coast of Scotland, c. 800)

beautiful handwriting and condition: note poetry written as if prose. In Cathedral Library, Exeter

not in as good shape: note lacuna in ms.

Where did the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians come from?

academic article. "The Old English terms overwhelmingly preferred by insular writers were 'Englisc' or 'Angelcynn.' Since 'Anglo-Saxon' had never been in common use in England, it disappeared entirely following the Norman Conquest,
not reappearing until it was re-coined in the early modern period" (34).

Fonts to choose, how to access ALT codes for use in Microsoft Word.

Embroidered to commemorate the Battle of Hastings (the "translate" button mostly works); a "graphic narrative"

Box decorated with Roman, Germanic, and Christian imagery plus runes. British Museum, London

Make your own narrative in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry.

everyone needs these