Directory of Beowulf Resources

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Beowulf is a 3,182 line epic poem which was written in Old English and which has been translated in various ways many dozens of times in the past 200 years. Old English scholars are in almost unanimous agreement that Beowulf is the greatest literary monument surviving from the Anglo-Saxon period.

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• Beowulf Aloud

  http://acadblogs.wheatoncollege.edu/mdrout/category/beowulf/
  Sound recordings of selected excerpts from the poem. By Michael Drout.

• Beowulf Images

  https://www.google.com/search?q=beowulf+manuscript+pdf&biw=1280&bih=834&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir14mLzPPJAhUG9WMKHZpGDqMQsAQINA&dpr=1
  Displays images of pages from the Beowulf manuscript and illustrations from books about Beowulf.

• Beowulf Manuscript

  http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/beowulf
  Provides background information on the poem and its manuscript. From the British Library.

• Beowulf: a Summary in English Prose

  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beowulf.html
  A synopsis of the poem by D.L. Ashliman.

• Eight Videos about Beowulf

  http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/02/ten-videos-beowulf/
  A selection of videos in which the speakers discuss the Beowulf poem.

• Readings from Beowulf

  http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Beowulf.Readings/Beowulf.Readings.html
  Contains sound files for selected passages of the poem. Each sound file is accompanied by the Old English text.

• Sound Recording from Beowulf

  http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/stella/readings/OE/BEOWULF.HTM
  Sound recording of lines 64-125 (life in Hrothgar's hall). The recording is accompanied by the Old English text and textual notes.

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