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)

Vercelli Book, Capitulary Library, Vercelli, Italy. The complete poem preserved in only one copy.

"Survive the Jive" documentary shot by Thomas Rowsell

video of the stone cross (in present-day Scotland) with part of the poem carved into it using runic characters (also some of the Bible in the Latin alphabet).

video of a metal cross (now in Brussels) with parts of the poem engraved on it. And the rood-maker's name, too.

not in as good shape: note lacuna in ms. Starts on the last line of the left-hand page.

beautiful handwriting and condition: note poetry written as if prose. In Cathedral Library, Exeter. Poem starts at top of right-hand page.

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)

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)

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.

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

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

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