Anglo-Saxon and Viking Resources
The Anglo-Saxon-Viking Resource Page
Explore these on-line resources in order to get more, in-depth background
on the Old-English language and literatures and their backgrounds. Briefly
summarize the content of each link and post your results on the Bulletin Board (WebCT). You may "click" on the image or the text to get to the
www page resources.
The Beowulf Project
The History of the English Language
Celtic Literature
Anglo Saxon Page
Bulfinch's
Mythology: the Age of Fable--Chapter 42, BEOWULF
The Viking Home Page
The Battle of Maldon

The Magnificent Book of Kells
"Look closely at it and you will penetrate the innermost secrets of art; you will
find
embellishments of such intricacy, such a wealth of knots and interlacing links that you might
believe
it was the work of an angel rather than a human being."
-Giraldus Cambrensis
13th century scholar


We shall be reading