Beowulf on the Web

A Google search on the word “Beowulf” yields approximately 12,000,000 results. I cannot claim to have visited them all, but I suspect that not all of these sites are equally useful to a reader of the poem. The internet is a vast and unruly place, and the quality and relevance of its information varies widely. All the sites here are recommended with complete confidence, but when you venture out into other sites, be sure to evaluate the content carefully before you use it as a reference. Advice on how to do this can be found here and here.

Each of these links will take you to more resources, including images of the manuscript, artifacts from Anglo-Saxon England, aids to language study, and even more links:

Beowulf sites

• A bibliography by Peter Baker: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/courses/Beo.Criticism.html
• Ann Savage’s Hypertext edition of Beowulf http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html
• Benjamin Slade’s Beowulf site http://www.heorot.dk
• Araby Greene’s excellent resources for Beowulf study (U of Nevada, Reno): http://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/guides/beowulf.html
• Rachel Zirkelbach’s student pages on Beowulf: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/eliot/722/index.htm#mainmenu
• Study plans and lessons for teaching Beowulf (for high school teachers): http://www.webenglishteacher.com/beowulf.html
• Beowulf in Old English: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html
• Peter Baker reads selections from the poem in Old English: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Beowulf.Readings/Beowulf.Readings.html
• Grettir’s saga, an analogue to Beowulf, is online at http://omacl.org/Grettir/

Aids for learning Old English

• Peter Baker’s site, with sound files, fonts, bibliographies, links, and more: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/index.html
• Hwæt! Interactive learning: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/hwaet/hwaet_toc.html
• OE lessons from Murray McGillivray at the University of Calgary: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/
• The Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is online at http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm
• A searchable database of the past thirty years of Old English scholarship has been placed online by the Old English Newsletter; use is free, but registration is required: http://www.oenewsletter.org/OENDB/index.php

Organizations

• International Society of Anglo-Saxonists: http://www.isas.us
• AnsaxDat Database - the searchable archives of the discussion list ANSAX-L: http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/
• Homepage of the Dictionary of Old English: http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/
• International Congress on Medieval Studies Home Page: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html
• TOEBI: Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/

General Medieval Links

• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: http://www.the-orb.net/
• Andy Holt Virtual Library (University of Tennessee, Martin) – large and well-maintained site with links to texts and resources in the humanities and fine arts: http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml
• James Marchand’s “WEMSK: What Every Medievalist Should Know,” an outstanding series of bibliographical essays: http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/wemskmenu.html
• Carole Biggam’s Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Select Bibliography: http://bubl.ac.uk/docs/bibliog/biggam/
• Simon Keynes, Anglo-Saxon History: a Select Bibliography: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/keynesbib/index.html
• The home page of Simon Keynes, Trinity College, Cambridge http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html
• Humbul Humanities Hub http://www.humbul.ac.uk
• Michelle Ziegler, Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany http://members.aol.com/michellezi/resources-index.html
• Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon.net http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/
• Paul Halsell’s Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
• The works of the Early Church Fathers: http://www.ccel.org/
• 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html

Beowulf: a household name?

• Beowulf the computer cluster: http://www.beowulf.org/
• Beowulf the comic book graphic novel: http://www.thecomic.com/beowulf.html
• Beowulf the English Mastiff: http://beowulfmastiffs.com/
• Beowulf the brewery in Birmingham, England: http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/589
• Beowulf Performance Products, makers of cool motorcycle parts in Halifax, Yorkshire: http://www.beowulf-performance-products.com/services.asp
• Beowulf Galleries, featuring erotic and ethnographic fine art, antiquities, ceramics and photography, in Sydney, Australia: http://www.beowulfgalleries.com.au/
• Beowulf Lodge, Fish Creek, Wisconsin: http://www.beowulflodge.com/
• Beowulf Farm Bed and Breakfast (sleep tight!): http://beowulffarm.com/
• BeoWulf, the hardest-rockin’ band in Detroit, Michigan: http://www.beowulf-band.com/