Useful Old English Links

by Dr Davis on August 2, 2009

Judith beheading Holofernes by CaravaggioA collection from the University of Toronto for a sophomore class.

Beowulf Translations.net

E-Intro to Old English: Meter includes alliteration, rhythm, and hypermetric verses.

Bartleby on Judith

Literary Resources – Medieval by Lynch of Rutgers

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Judith

by Dr Davis on August 2, 2009

The Old English Aerobics Anthology has Judith with glosses of words, clauses, and idioms.

Since I want to go back through and re-translate Judith myself, this will be an interesting source to look at.

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OE Poetry

by Dr Davis on August 2, 2009

Building Blocks of Old English Poetry offers activities for students to work with, modeling and explaining Old English poetry.

Included are a discussion of alliteration and two exercises. A discussion of meter and Sievers’ type half-lines has another exercise. A final exercise in the “summing it up” section, as well as a bibliography are included.

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