Beowulf on the Web

A Google search on the word “Beowulf” yields approximately 10,400,000 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 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 at http://www.studygs.net/evaluate.htm and http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/evaluate.htm.

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

• The manuscript of Beowulf (London, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.xv) is available online from the British Library website, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV
• Kevin Kiernan's excellent Electronic Beowulf 4.0 is now a free resource: http://ebeowulf.uky.edu
• 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 collection resources for Beowulf study (U of Nevada, Reno): http://beowulfresources.com
• Study plans and lessons for teaching Beowulf (for high school teachers): http://www.webenglishteacher.com/beowulf.html
• Beowulf in Old English: https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf-oe.asp
• Selections from the poem read aloud in Old English: http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/hear-beowulf-read-in-the-original-old-english.html
• Grettir’s saga, an analogue to Beowulf, is online at http://omacl.org/Grettir/
• Benjamin Bagby’s performance of Beowulf, available on DVD: http://www.bagbybeowulf.com

Aids for learning Old English

• Peter Baker’s site, with sound files, fonts, bibliographies, links, and more: http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/
• 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://bosworthtoller.com
• The Dictionary of Old English is in progress at the University of Toronto; A-G is online as of 2015: http://doe.utoronto.ca
• Old English Core Vocabulary (Christine Rauer, U of St Andrews): http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cr30/vocabulary/
• 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.isasweb.net
• International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U: http://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress
• International Medieval Congress, Leeds U: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125137/international_medieval_congress
• TOEBI: Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland: http://www.toebi.org.uk

General Medieval Links

• 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
• Simon Keynes, Anglo-Saxon History: a Bibliographical Handbook for Students of Anglo-Saxon History (large pdf file): https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/resources/ASHistBib06.pdf
• Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon.net http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/
• Paul Halsell’s Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp
• 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 Lodge, Fish Creek, Wisconsin: http://www.beowulflodge.com/
• Beowulf Farm, Victoria, BC: http://beowulffarm.com/