Here is an overview of resources for teaching (and studying) Old English. Miss anything? Please send an e-mail to webmaster@toebi.org.uk
Online Old English courses/exercises/teaching resources
- Playing with Old English: a Playful Pedagogy Resource (Megan Cavell, Renée Trilling; University of Illinois and University of Birmingham)
- Old English Literature: A Hypertext Course Pack (University of Oxford)
- Old English grammar exercises at ASNC Spoken Word (University of Cambridge)
- Old English at the University of Virginia, including Old English Aerobics (University of Virginia)
- Essentials of Old English (University of Glasgow)
- Old English Grammar (companion website to Murray McGillivray’s Gentle Introduction to Old English)
- King Alfred’s Grammar (Michael D. C. Drout; Wheaton College)
- Old English Core Vocabulary (Christine Rauer; University of St Andrews)
- Teaching Old English in Schools (Fran Allfrey, Beth Walley, Carl Kears; King’s College, London)
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)
- A Thesaurus of Old English (University of Glasgow)
- Online Etymology Dictionary
Digital editions of Old English texts
- Electronic Beowulf 4.0 (Kevin Kiernan; University of Kentucky)
- Beowulf on steorarume (Benjamin Slade)
- Old English Poetry in Facsimile (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
- Free, Fully Digitized Manuscripts Containing Old English (overview by Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- Digitised Manuscripts (British Library)
- Parker Library on the Web
- Cambridge Digital Library
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
- Old English Newsletter Bibliography Database
- Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English (Universidad de La Rioja)
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
- Woruldhord (University of Oxford)
- The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography (Christine Rauer; 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
Blogs about Old English and early medieval England
- Old English Wordhord (Hana Videen; King’s College London – also on Twitter as @OEWordhord)
- Medieval Fleming (Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- For the Wynn (Kate Thomas; University of York)
- Anglo-Saxon Monk (Christopher Monk)
- A Clerk of Oxford (Eleanor Parker; University of Oxford)
- 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)
Additional resources/links