General
Old English Reading List
Texts:
in
*B. Mitchell & F.C. Robinson A Guide to Old English, Oxford
2001.
Translations
R.K.
Gordon: Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Everyman 1954
R.F.
Hamer: A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, London 1970
Background:
P.H.
Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (CUP)
D.
Whitelock, The Beginnings of English Society(Pelican History of
England, 1952)
Tacitus,
Germania
(Penguin)
R.
Bruce Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, (British Museum), 2nd
ed. 1972.
If
you are in London, you should visit this display in the British Museum,
one of the most important witnesses of the rich and eclectic art of the
Anglo-Saxons.
*J.
Campbell (ed.) The Anglo-Saxons (Phaidon: Oxford, 1982), and now
in paperback.
M.O.H.Carver
(ed) The Age of Sutton Hoo (Boydell and Brewer)
Bede:
A
History of the English Church and People (Penguin)
Oxford
Illustrated History of Britain, relevant chapters.
Hrafnkels
Saga Freysgó?a in
Sagas
of the Icelanders,(Penguin)
General
Literature:
E.G.
Stanley ed. Continuations and Beginnings, London 1966
J.
Bessinger/S.J. Kahrl ed.: Essential Articles for the Study of Old English
Poetry 1968.
S.B.
Greenfield: The Interpretation of Old English Poems 1972
S.B.
Greenfield and D. G. Calder: A New Critical History of Old English Literature
(1986)
*T.A.
Shippey: Old English Literature (1972).
J.D.
Niles (ed.) Old English Literary Criticism in Context, (1980)
**M.
Godden and M. Lapidge, edd. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature(1991)
W.J.
Ong, Orality and Literacy, (London, 1982)
K.
O'Brien O'Keefe, ed.: Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge, 1997)
links
to the set texts for Paper 3
Battle
of Maldon
Dream
of the Rood
Wanderer
Beowulf
Other
Old English literary topics
Wife's
Lament
Women
Archaeology
more
Anglo-Saxon links
Cathy
Ball's OE compendium
Labyrinth-Old
English
TOEBI
AngloSaxonPoeticRecords
Peter
Baker's Old English aerobics
?a
Engliscan Gesi?as
Voice
of the Shuttle
English
Faculty reading list for Papers 5/6