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In addition, some Old English text survives on stone structures and ornate objects. [6] The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study, preserving a chronology of early English history.
Translations are from Old and Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Latin, Arabic, Greek, Persian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, and Hebrew, and most works cited are generally available in the University of Michigan's HathiTrust digital library [1] and OCLC's WorldCat. [2] Anonymous works are presented by topic.
The earliest history of Old English lexicography lies in the Anglo-Saxon period itself, when English-speaking scholars created English glosses on Latin texts. At first, these were often marginal or interlinear glosses; however, they soon came to be gathered into word-lists such as the Épinal-Erfurt , Leiden and Corpus Glossaries.
The Old English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people (1890–1898). [402] A version of Ecclesiastical history of the English people by Bede, edited with a translation and introduction by Thomas Miller. Published for Early English Text Society, Original series, 95, 96, 110, 111.
Crusade Texts in Translation. A book series of 27 volumes of English translations of texts about the Crusades. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations. [113] Series of 23 volumes of medieval Latin texts, with English translations, from 500 to 1500, representing the whole breadth and variety of medieval civilization. Early English Text Society ...
A modern translation can be found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles translated by G.N. Garmonsway. Seth Lerer has published a more recent modern translation of "The Rime of King William" in his article, "Old English and Its Afterlife," in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.
Published for the Early English Text Society, Extra series, Volumes 11, 21, 29, 55. Selections from Barbour's Bruce (1900). [88] Books I–X, with the notes thereto, and the preface and glossarial index to the whole work of twenty books. As edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat. Published for the Early English Text Society, Extra series, Volume 80a ...
Photolithograph of Blickling Homilies (Princeton, Scheide Library, MS 71), leaf 141. The Blickling homilies are a collection of anonymous homilies from Anglo-Saxon England. . They are written in Old English, and were written down at some point before the end of the tenth century, making them one of the oldest collections of sermons to survive from medieval England, the other main witness being ...