Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780955767920
Published by : Guy Points
This book enables rapid access to the events recorded in any one year in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which was created in the late ninth century. Multiple copies were made and sent to monasteries in England where they were then inde... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781781591482
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. Without these vital accounts, we would have virtually no knowledge of some of the key events in the h... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898281672
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
This is a new approach to learning old English – as a living language. Leofwin and his family are your guides through six lively, entertaining, topic-based units. New vocabulary and grammar are presented in context, step by ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407309224
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally discovered by Leif Erikson c. 1000 CE, is described in two sagas written in the thirteenth century: the Saga... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780156033978
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199235599
Published by : Oxford University Press
This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898281467
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
This set of two CD-Roms is comprised of readings in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) by Stephen Pollington of texts and lessons found in the audiotape First Steps in Old English .


CD 1 Tracks include: 1. Deor. 2. Beowulf - The Funer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897808
Published by : The Exeter Press
Drawn from Ælfric's Old English Lives of the Saints , this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria.


As well as the Old English original te... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859896306
Published by : The Exeter Press
Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book , this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. The interactive edition will be an invaluable acquisition of historical and literary s... .... Learn More