First Year English Course
 
 

Paper 3
 
 


 

The Excavation of Mound One at Sutton Hoo

A) OLD ENGLISH

Poetry
The Dream of the Rood
The Wanderer
The Battle of Maldon
Extracts from Beowulf

Prose
Ælfric's Life of Edmund
Bede's account of Cædmon

Here is a link to the English Faculty Old English Coursepack Page. This will help you with translation, comprehension and many other vital things:
Old English Coursepack


information about other Old English texts

links to some Old English websites
Cathy Ball's OE compendium
 Labyrinth-Old English
TOEBI
Peter Baker's Old English aerobics
?a Engliscan Gesi?as 
 
 


 
 

B) MIDDLE ENGLISH

 Fragment A of The Canterbury Tales (Riverside edition)
Patience (ed. M. Andrew and R. Waldron, 1996)
The Tale of Gareth (in Malory, Worksed. E. Vinaver, 1971)
Mankind (ed. G. Lester, 1999)