Class Notes

Beowulf's Date and Composition
Types of Literature or Figurative Speech to Which Beowulf Is Related or upon Which It Touches
Societal Values Evident in the Poem

Links to Beowulf Sites of Interest
Visit The Guide to the Electronic Beowulf to check out what has been done to digitize the Beowulf MS. Includes some interesting photos.
Hear selections of Old English poetry read aloud on the Chaucer Studio site.
Read Beowulf in a modern English translation by Dr. David Breeden

Just for Fun
Instant Old English: A Conversational Phrasebook Culled from the Old English Corpus for the englisc list, by Catherine N. Ball
Circolwyrde Wordhord: Old English computer terminology, by Carl Berkhout

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