Here is an overview of resources for teaching (and studying) Old English. Miss anything? Please write to us on Bluesky.
Online Old English courses/exercises/teaching resources
- Essentials of Old English (University of Glasgow)
- Hwider … ðū? Gap-Filling Exercises for the Old English Class (Fritz Stieleke; Heinrich-Heine-Universität)
- King Alfred’s Grammar (Michael D. C. Drout; Wheaton College)
- Nū ġē lā! A Pictorial Invitation to Old English (Fritz Stieleke; Heinrich-Heine-Universität)
- Old English Core Vocabulary (Christine Rauer; University of St Andrews)
- Old English Core Vocabulary Quizlet Flashcards (Christine Rauer; University of St Andrews)
- Old English Grammar (companion website to Murray McGillivray’s Gentle Introduction to Old English)
- Old English grammar exercises at ASNC Spoken Word (University of Cambridge)
- Old English Literature: A Hypertext Course Pack (University of Oxford)
- Old English Online (Tom Birkett with Victoria Koivisto-Kokko; University College Cork)
- Old English at the University of Virginia, including Old English Aerobics (University of Virginia)
- Playing with Old English: a Playful Pedagogy Resource (Megan Cavell and Renée Trilling; University of Illinois and University of Birmingham)
- ROEP: Resources for Old English Prose (Francis Leneghan and Niamh Kehoe; University of Oxford)
- Teaching Old English in Schools (Fran Allfrey, Beth Walley, Carl Kears; King’s College, London)
- Wordwynn: Wynsum weġ tō ealdum Englisce (Fritz Stieleke; Heinrich-Heine-Universität)
Online Old English dictionaries
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
- John R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edn (1916)
- Dictionary of Old English website (subscription required)
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- A Thesaurus of Old English (University of Glasgow)
Digital editions of Old English texts
- Beowulf on steorarume (Benjamin Slade)
- Electronic Beowulf 4.0 (Kevin Kiernan; University of Kentucky)
- Old English Poetry in Facsimile (Martin Foys with Kyle Smith and contributing editors; Digital Mappa)
- The Riddle Ages: Early Medieval Riddles, Translations and Commentaries (Megan Cavell with Matthias Ammon, Neville Mogford, Jennifer Neville, Alexandra Reider and Victoria Symons; University of Birmingham)
Digitized manuscript collections with Old English manuscripts
- Cambridge Digital Library
- Digitised Manuscripts (British Library)
- Free, Fully Digitized Manuscripts Containing Old English (overview by Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- Parker Library on the Web
Databases in the field of Old English studies
- Dictionary of Old Englich Corpus (subscription required)
- DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic
- Early English Laws (University of St Andrews)
- EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 (Stanford University)
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors
- Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English (Universidad de La Rioja)
- The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography (Christine Rauer; University of St Andrews)
- Old English Newsletter Bibliography Database
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
- Woruldhord (University of Oxford)
Blogs about Old English and early medieval England
- A Clerk of Oxford (Eleanor Parker; University of Oxford)
- For the Wynn (Kate Thomas; University of York)
- Medieval Fleming (Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- Old English Wordhord (Hana Videen; King’s College London – also on Twitter as @OEWordhord)
- The Medieval Monk (Christopher Monk)
- Thijs Porck Blog (Thijs Porck; Leiden University)
Old English video material (YouTube)
- Introducing Old English (Alaric Hall; University of Leeds)
- Old English Grammar Bytes (Thijs Porck; Leiden University)
Old English music videos (YouTube)
- Ġyrstandæġ “Yesterday” in Old English (Old English lyrics by Fritz Stieleke; Töchter Düsseldorfs and Cornelia Hornemann)
- Se ǣfen cymþ “As Tears Go By” in Old English, band version (Old English lyrics by Fritz Stieleke; MAY)
- Se ǣfen cymþ “As Tears Go By” in Old English, traditional Fritz version (Old English lyrics by Fritz Stieleke; MAY; sung by Maewa Oria)
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