Tutorial: P. Smith Old English Re-imagined

designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations. For best results, use your browser's full screen. Enjoy!

An article by curators at the British Library on art and illumination, making manuscripts, and Christian religion and belief.

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Translations of almost 79% of all extant Old English poetry can be found here (that’s 23,662 lines out of about 30,000 extant lines). There’s more to early English poetry than Beowulf—
and it is just as engaging, vital, and important to the classroom and scholar.

Visit a British Museum gallery and take a virtual tour. The gallery's centrepiece is the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk – one of the most spectacular and important discoveries in British archaeology.