Beowulf Resources (along with Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Germanic, Indo-European, & Mythological/Epic resources) HOME to Beowulf on Steorarume links last updated on 15 September 2019 Beowulf Resources Electronic Beowulf - electronic colour facsimile of Beowulf, Prof. Kevin Kiernan [Uni. of Kentucky] Wikipedia page on Beowulf - encyclopaedia entry - with hyperlinks etc.; entries in various languages (e.g., English, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Japanese, Greek, Hebrew, French, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto etc.) Beowulf @ Uni. of Nevada (Reno) Libraries - good introduction to Beowulf [Uni. of Nevada (Reno)] Wuffing Kingdom of East Anglia - Dr Sam Newton's site on the Wuffing royals, East Anglia, Sutton Hoo & Beowulf (w/ many good photos) [Uni. of East Anglia] Beowulf: study guide - self-quiz, books, web-resources [R. Liuzza, Tulane Uni.] Uni. of Kentucky Beowulf-resources - resources for class ENG619 [K. Kiernan, Uni-Kentucky] Cambridge Encyclopedia entry for "Beowulf" - Scandinavian Traditions; Personality of the Hero; Origin & Antiquity of the Poem; &c., &c. Norton -- Linguistic & Literary Contexts of Beowulf: an overview - Beowulf in the canon of Eng. Lit. [Norton Anthology of Eng. Lit. Online] Louis Rodrigues's intro to Beowulf - 'What is Beowulf?' [@ jagular.com] Seamus Heaney's introduction to Beowulf - reproduced from Heaney's trans. [Norton online] Net-Lexicon.de: Beowulf - Definition, Bedeutung, Erklärung im Lexikon (auf deutsch) [German] Beowulf @ Susning.nu: Berättelse - introduktion (i Svensk) [Swedish] Beowulf - innledning - innledning på norsk [Norwegian] Beowulf - door Boppo Grimsma - goede introductie in Nederlandze [Dutch] Beowulf (tiscali.nl) - nog een introductie in Nederlandze [Dutch] Antenate: Beowulf - l'introduzione (nell'italiano) [Italian] 'Why Read Beowulf'? - article by Robert Yeager [National Endowment for the Humanities, US Gov't] Why Bother with Beowulf? - by Melissa Snell [@About.com] Charles W. Kennedy's intro. to Beowulf: the Oldest English Epic - excerpt [January Magazine] Beowulf: Outline and Notes [Jonathan A. Glenn / Uni. of Central Arkansas] The ORB: Introduction to Beowulf - basic intro. [Teresa P. Reed / Orb.net] Some Thoughts on Reading Beowulf - online lecture [Lynn Harry Nelson, Uni. of Kansas] Brunswick Eng. Class Beo. page - high-school level questions & resources [Brunswick Sch., Connecticut, USA] Fu Jen Uni. Beowulf page - notes, resources & study questions [Fu Jen Uni., Taiwan] Angelcynn: Historical Background of Beowulf - some notes [Ben Levine, Angelcynn.org.uk] Beowulf Splash Page - some info & images [Brian Kinkead, Uni. of Tennessee] Unity of Beowulf: Tolkien & the Critics - online essay on the essential coherency of the poem [Bill Ramey] Alliteration.net's page on Beowulf - excerpts of trans. & links Legends.dm page on Beowulf - brief intro. & links Bulfinch's Mythology: Beowulf - very basic entry at extremely easy reading-level Beowulf Rap-Port - connecting Contemporary Youth to Old English poetry; OE poetry & rap-music Beowulf, König Schild, Hrodgar - Beitragen [auf deutsch] Altenglisch-Beowulf @ Uni-Basel - [auf deutsch] Old English Newsletter Online Bibliography - searchable version of the annual OEN bibliography Beowulf Bibliography, 1963-2001 [Uni. of Memphis Libraries (Tennessee)] - link not working Beowulf Bibliography, 1979-2001 [Uni. of Connecticut] - link not working Beowulf Bibliography, 1990-2003 [Uni. of Kentucky] another Beowulf Bibliography [Jonathan A. Glenn / Uni. of Central Arkansas] Anglo-Saxon Studies: a Select Bibliography (3rd ed.) [C.P. Biggam, Bocgetæl Engliscra Gesiþa / BUBL (Strathclyde Uni., Glasgow)] Beowulf Artwork [@ heorot.dk] & links Beowulf Read Aloud - audio renderings in Old English/Anglo-Saxon: Benjamin Slade reads Beowulf in Old English - selected passages, my own readings in the original language [@ Jagular.com-Beowulf] Peter Baker reads Beowulf in Old English - selected passages in the original language [Uni. Virginia] Stephen Pollington reads Beowulf in Old English (Scyld Scefing's funeral) - selected passage in the original language [Ða Engliscan Gesiþas] B. Bagby's Beowulf info on performances (no audio online) B. Bagby's Beowulf, programme notes in Modern English (translation): Stephen Pollington reads Beowulf in translation - Scyld Scefing's funeral read from the Gummere translation [Ða Engliscan Gesiþas] Seamus Heaney reads Beowulf in translation - selected passages read from Heaney's own translation [Norton Online] Listings of Beowulf Readings available on CD (Compact Disc) - list & links to buy Beowulf Music The Water Burns - classical/Chinese music, inspired by Beowulf, composed by Joyce Beetuan Koh Beowulf Films Beowulf & Grendel - upcoming movie filmed on south coast of Iceland (Sturla Gunnarsson) The Blade of the King - another Beowulf movie (William Blesch) Other Beowulf editions & translations Annotated List of Beowulf Translations - from 1800-present day Beowulf: Two Centuries of Translations, Paraphrases & Adaptations - intro. to above list of Beo. trans. [Marijane Osborn / Arizona Center for Medieval Studies & Renaissance Studies, Arizona State Uni.] Syd Allan's Beowulf site - alternative Beowulf translations compared Kiernan's Edition of Beowulf - Old English text (only) edition, based on Prof. Kiernan's important re-examination of the Beowulf MS. [Uni.-Kentucky] Köberl's dual-language (OE & mod. Eng.) edition - Dr. J. Köberl's ed. & trans. (Adobe .PDF file) [Uni.-Klagenfurt] Project Gutenberg's Beowulf - Harris & Sharp - online version of Harris & Sharp's 4th critical edition (1883) Beowulf in Hypertext - public domain OE text, Gummere translation, edited by Dr. Anne Savage [McMaster Uni.] Interlinear Beowulf - OE public domain text with interlinear translation (Gummere), [Uni. of Toronto] Prose Beowulf trans. by Child - in Adobe .pdf format [Clarence Griffin Child, York Uni.] Beowulf auf deutsch - OE text (Bolton/Wrenn) with facing German translation, [Uni-Düsseldorf] Beowulf in Nederlandze - proza - Dutch prose translation by Jan Jonk [in Dutch] Beowulf in Nederlandze - stafrijm - Dutch verse translation by Jan Jonk [in Dutch] Beowulf in Russian - Russian translation only Beowulf en español - traduccíon de Luis Lerate Beowulf, a new verse translation by Seamus Heaney - excerpts & reviews Beowulf 'aesthetic' translation - Tim Romano's artful (but expurgated) translation (in progress)-new English translation only, no OE Beowulf: el despertar de la épica germánica - con extractos de la traducción de Luis y Jesús Lerate [español] Beowulf: An Online Introduction - issues of modern eds. & trans. [L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College] Other Old English Texts & Anglo-Saxon Literary resources (in progress) Partial Listing of OE texts available online (heorot.dk) Old English Text Archive - onsite OE texts, and links to other sites hosting OE poems [Georgetown Uni.] Old English Editions online - e-texts [Med. Inst.] Old English Manuscripts Database [John Herrington, Georgetown Uni.] some Old English texts, with hyperlink glossary [Norwegian Uni. Science & Tech.] Old English Literature (Intro & Resources) - good overview material [Dr. Scott DeGregorio, Uni. of Michigan-Dearborn] Bifrost - anglosassone - risorse di vario tipo per quanto riguarda l'Inghilterra del periodo anglosassone [Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Università di Torino] ORB Introduction to Beowulf [Teresa Reed, the-ORB.net] ORB Introduction to Judith [Teresa Reed, the-ORB.net] ORB Introduction to the Exeter Book [Laura Blanchard & Carolyn Schriber, the-ORB.net] ORB Introduction to the Junius Manuscript [Laura Blanchard & Carolyn Schriber, the-ORB.net] ORB Introduction to the Vercelli Book [Laura Blanchard & Carolyn Schriber, the-ORB.net] Useful bibliography for Old English Literature Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture - [Western Michigan Uni. Medieval Center] Using Computer Technology to Teach Medieval Texts [Kathryn Wymer, Uni. N. Carolina] Old English & Old Germanic language/linguistic resources Old English Newsletter (OEN) - quarterly publication - news on teaching & research in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies [Medieval Inst., Western Michigan Uni.] Old English Bibliography: the First Fifty Titles to Know About - good listing [James Earl/Kip Wheeler; Carson-Newman College] The Electronic Introduction to Old English - An on-line analogue of book of same title (Peter S. Baker, Uni. of West. Michigan) Old English Grammar, Uni of Sydney - Sydney (Australia) Old English: an introductory course (online) - complete text [Murray McGillivray, Uni. of Calgary / the-Orb.net] Old English Paradigms - useful tables of OE noun, verb, pronoun, adjective paradigms [K. Kiernan, Uni.-Kentucky] King Alfred's Grammar - Old English language resource [Michael Drout, Wheaton College] Old English Made Easy - grammar resources & dictionary Online Old English Course - Uni. Calgary - Dr. Jenny McKenney's Online OE course [Uni. of Calgary] Altenglisch online - lernen altenglisch (auf deutsch) [Guillaume Schiltz, Uni-Basel] Hwaet! Old English in Context - Dr. Catherine Ball's online OE course, with audio files [Georgetown Uni.] Old English Aerobics - another online OE course [Uni. of Virginia] Instant Old English - an OE phrase-book by Dr. Ball [Georgetown Uni.] Folcspræc - Old English names and other resources Conversational Old English - more OE phrases by Mary K Savelli Dictionary of Old English Project - project for a new, exhaustive OE dictionary & corpus (Angus Cameron et al.) [Centre for Medieval Studies, Uni-Toronto] Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - massive dictionary of Old English (1898) Bosworth's main dictionary scanned image files [K. Kiernan, Uni-Kentucky / digitalisation by S. Crist] Toller's supplement to dictionary scanned image files [K. Kiernan, Uni-Kentucky / digitalisation by S. Crist] Bright's Anglo-Saxon Glossary (OE->NE) - short glossary of OE [Uni. of Pennsylvania] Old English Glossary-Sydney [Uni. of Sydney (Australia)] A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - scanned image files, John R. Clark Hall [Uni-Pennsylvania] OE -> Modern English dictionary [OE Made Easy] - (J.R. Johnson) Altenglisches W�rterbuch (Old English->German dictionary) altenglisch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Variant Word/Phrase Search (Dictionary of Old English) - [DOE, Uni. of Toronto] Modern English to Old English Glossary - New English to Old English dictionary [Memorial Uni. of Newfoundland] Modern English -> OE dictionary [OE Made Easy] - (J.R. Johnson) Circolwyrde Wordhord - Prof. Carl Berkhout's (post)modern OE calques (ie 'random access memory' in OE) [Uni. of Arizona] Old English Flash Cards 1 - 1500 words (340K PDF) [York Uni. (Canada)] Old English Flash Cards 2 - 1500 words in 10th century script (360K PDF) [York Uni. (Canada)] Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic - Old Norse->English; Geir T. Zoëga (1910) [Sean Crist et al, Northvegr.org] Heyne's Gothic Dictionary - Gothic->Deutsch [Uni-Pennsylvania] Old High German Glossary - Old High German->modern English (Joseph Wright 1888) [Sean Crist, Uni-Pennsylvania] Altfriesisches W�rterbuch (Old Frisian->German dictionary) altfriesisch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Althochdeutsches W�rterbuch (Old High German->German dictionary) - althochdeutsch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Altniederfränkisches W�rterbuch (Old Low Frankish->German dictionary) - altniederfränkisch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Altnordisches W�rterbuch (Old Norse->German dictionary) - altnordisch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Altsächsisches W�rterbuch (Old Saxon->German dictionary) - altsächsisches->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] Gotisches W�rterbuch (Gothic->German dictionary) - gotisch->deutsch [Gerhard K�bler] American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Appendix: Indo-European Roots Indo-European & the Indo-Europeans - introductory essay [Calvert Watkins] Indo-European Family of Languages - chart of linguistic affinities of the IE-languages Guide to App. I: Indo-European Roots of English [Calvert Watkins] - how to use the IE-root glossary (see below entry) Indo-European Root Index - index of IE-root forms [Calvert Watkins] Online Etymological Dictionary - useful free online etymological dictionary, for modern English [Douglas Harper] Fordsmender's Dictionary of Proto-Germanic Roots - English -> Proto-Germanic Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit - Fick, Falk & Torp (1909) [Sean Crist, Uni-Pennsylvania] The Norse Language (language of the Vikings, almost) - grammar & language-learning resources for Old Norse [Peter Pettersson] Old Norse for Beginners - free online course in Old Norse for beginners [Haukur Þorgeirsson & Óskar Guðlaugsson] GR Burgess's Old Norse Page - good resources [Uni. of Miami (Florida)] An Introduction to Gothic - language grammar and exercises [David Salo] A Brief Collection of Old High German (& Links) - Althochdeutsch resources [Brian Zahn / Springfield Public Schools, Montana] Proto-Germanic language - brief info page [Marisa Lohr] A Brief Germanic Linguistics page [Brian Zahn / Springfield Public Schools, Montana] North-Germanic to Western-Germanic References - mainly name correspondences between W. Germanic & Nordic [Hrodger Fr�jawin] Germanic Numerals - development of the numeral-words in Germanic langs. Lowlands-L - germanic languages of the low countries, e.g. Dutch, Frisian, Low Saxon *Þeuðiskôn - the Proto-Germanic project Great Vowel Shift [Melinda Menzer, Furman Uni.] Syntax of Old English Poetry - position of heads in noun and prepositional phrase [S. Pintzuk, Uni.-York] fuþorc & fuðark - Runic alphabets - excellent page at Omniglot.com Some Thoughts on the Origin of the Fuþark - [Stephen Pollington, Engliscan Gesiþas page] Die altenglischen Zaubersprüche - (auf deutsch [OE charms]) [Guillaume Schiltz, Uni-Basel] Zaubersprüche aus dem Mittelalter - (auf deutsch, [charms of the Middle Ages]) [Guillaume Schiltz, Uni-Basel] RuneScribe - convert roman into runic [Evert Mouw] Runic Founts - links to runic founts [Engliscan Gesiþas page] Thundrune's Free Fonts page - listing of Runic & scribal-calligraphy founts Arild Hauges Runes - great source of runic resources across the Germanic world (Norwegian & English) [Arild Hauge] Futhark - resources on Germanic runes Mál Viking - excellent online resource for Runic Old Swedish (English & modern Swedish versions) [Peter Pettersson] Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150-700; texts & contexts - online book (in PDF format) [Jantina Helena Looijenga / Uni. Groningen] Rune database Runes - another page on Anglo-Saxon runes Franks Casket - Dr. Alfred Becker's site w/ excellent images/info on the casket (English/deutsch) An English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark - corpus of inscriptions [Judith Jesch, Uni. of Nottingham] Rood & Ruthwell - Dr. A. Bruce's images & info of runic Ruthwell Cross [Florida Southern College] Metre: Building Blocks of Old English Poetry - some basic notes on OE poetic structure [M. Wendy Hennequin, Uni. of Connecticut] Glossary of Poetic Terms - guide for study of poetry, definition of term. [Robert G. Shubinski] Accentual Verse - basic introduction to the verse-type of Beo. & other OE poems [Dana Gioia] Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters - Kari Ellen Gade & R.D. Fulk [W. Michigan Uni.] Corpora: York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry - selection of OE poetic texts, annotated to facilitate searches on lexical items and syntactic structure [Uni.-York / S. Pintzuk] York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose - 1.5 million word syntactically-annotated corpus of Old English prose texts [Uni.-York] Dictionary of Old English Corpus Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts General Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Mediaeval resources Trinity College Anglo-Saxon Index - Prof. S.D. Keynes' excellent site [Trinity College, Cambridge] ORB : Anglo-Saxon England - Online Reference Book of Medieval Studies resource page [Rhodes College] International Society of Anglo-Saxonists - founded in 1983 to further all aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies Richard Rawlinson Center Anglo-Saxon & Manuscript Research - fosters teaching and research in the history and culture of Anglo-Saxon England and in the broader field of manuscript studies; online resources [Western Michigan Uni.] Haskins Society - international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, & early Angevin history [Cornell Uni.] Anglo-Saxon links of The Heroic Age - A-S resources of the online journal The Heroic Age TOEBI Internet Resources - Teachers of Old English in Britain & Ireland internet resource page [Oxford Uni.] VoS Anglo-Saxon page - Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) A-S resources [Uni. of California, Santa Barbara] Anglo-Saxon Sources [Medieval Studies] - resources & links [Stanford Uni.] Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Anglo-Saxon Studies: a select bibliography [C.P. Biggam, BUBL] ANSAX-l Database- the archives of the ANSAX listserver & guide to joining ANSAX-l [QE2 Lib., St. John's, Memorial Uni. of Newfoundland] Gegaderung, forum þara engliscan gesiða - forum for Ða Englisc Gesiðas association & discussion of A-S related topics The Boar's Helm Pub - Open Forum for discussion of Beowulf & related topics Theudawurdò (Words of the Tribe) - Germanic-L for Discussion of the Early Germanic Peoples Germanic History Clique - community of Germanic-related sites [Evert Mouw] Wiðowinde periodical - journal of ða Englisc Gesiðas (some avail. online) The Heroic Age - online journal of mediaeval northwestern Europe [Memorial Uni. of Newfoundland] Maþeliende - online journal of A-S studies [Uni. of Georgia] Dragons in the Sky - English communities at millennia-ends, ed. Prof. Patrick Conner, Dr. Stuart Lee [Oxford Uni.] Ura Tide / Our Times - tracking Anglo-Saxon literature & culture in the mass media Æstel - Journal of Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Uni.-Seattle, Washington Envoi - journal, mainly reviews The Digital Medievalist Project - community of practice for medievalists working with gigital media [Uni.-Lethbridge] What Every Medievalist Should Know - great basic resource [James Marchand, Uni-Illinois Urbana-Champaign / the-ORB.net] Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University - established in 1961 as a center of instruction and research in the history and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Academy of America - founded in 1925 Internet Resources for Medievalists [Columbia Uni.] A Basic Bibliography in Medieval History [Columbia Uni.] The Labyrinth: resources for medieval studies [Georgetown Uni.] Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany - [Michelle Ziegler] Medieval Monsters, images - in the Wonders of the East and other mss. [Heather McAlpine, Uni. of W. Ontario] Anglo-Saxon, Viking, & Germanic History & Culture The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English - MS A only, (Toby Jebson), [Georgetown Uni.] in New English translation - Rev. Ingram (1823), trans, (Dougla… truncated (21,744 more characters in archive)