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This page, (presently uncategorised) provides links to additional websites providing information and resources which may interest scholars of Aelfric of Eynsham and the Old English/West Saxish language of his time. 

 

Works by Aelfric and Works about Aelfric

In addition to biographical accounts of Aelfric, these sites provides links to forty Homilies of ÆlfricÆlfric's 'Lives of the Saints' and Ælfric's 'Colloquy'.

Plant Names in Aelfric's Glossary and Colloquy


Old English Faculty -University of Virginia

This academic institution offers digital access to Old English texts and a collection of on-line exercises; an Introduction to Old English; Junicode Font; Old English Font Pack; On-Line Bibliographies; and additional resources.

The Old English Anthology lists text that are free and available in digital format (e.g. The Fall of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3)A Selection of RiddlesWulf and EadwacerÆlfric on 'The Book of Job'William the Conqueror, and A Lyric for Advent).

The Workbook offers 15 useful online chapters providing exercises in Old English grammar.

The Glossary contains information about 32,000 instances of 4,600 words.

 

Linguistics Research Center (University of Texas at Austin)

This website offers detailed translations of excerpts from ten Old English texts where line by line the translation and grammar is given for every individual word. Links to these ten lessons are provided below.

Lesson 0 : Introduction to Old English

Lesson 1 : Beowulf: Prologue

Lesson 2 : Bede's Account of the Poet Caedmon

Lesson 3 : Cynewulf and Cyneheard

Lesson 4 : The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

Lesson 5 : Alfred's Wars with the Danes

Lesson 6 : The Battle of Maldon

Lesson 7 : Genesis A: the Flood

Lesson 8 : The Wanderer

Lesson 9 : The Seafarer

Lesson 10 : Beowulf: the Funeral

Furthermore, the scholar will also find 45 lessons on points of Old English grammar, together with similar studies for a range of other old languages, e.g. Old French, Old Irish, Old Russian, Old Slavonic, Old Norse, Gothic and Classical languages.

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