Bibliography

Beowulf

Clark-Hall, John R: Beowulf, a metrical translation into modern English: Cambridge University Press: 1914

Donaldson, E. Talbot : Beowulf : Longmans : London : 1966

Gray, David: Beowulf Facsimile: Devon: 1986

Kennedy, Charles W. : Beowulf, the oldest English epic translated into alliterative verse with a critical introduction : Oxford University Press: 1940

Magnusson, M. : Mackie, S : Glover, J. : Beowulf, an adaptation by Julian Glover of the verse translation of Michael Alexander and Edwin Morgan: Alan Sutton: Gloucester: 1987

Moncrieff, C. S. : Widsith, Beowulf, Finnesburgh, Waldere, Deor, Done into common English after the old manner : Chapman & Hall: London: 1921

Rodrigues, L. J. : Beowulf & The Fight at Finnsburh: Runetree: London: 2002

Swanton, Michael: Beowulf: Manchester University Press: 1982

Tolkein, J.R.R; Tolkein, Christopher (ed): Beowulf, a translation and commentary together with a Sellic spell: Harper Collins : London: 2014

Wrenn, C. L. : Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment : George G Harrap & Co : London: 1958

Wright, D. : Beowulf, a prose translation with an introduction by David Wright: Penguin: Bungay: 1960

Wyatt, A. J. & Chambers, R. W. : Beowulf with the Finnsburg Fragment : Cambridge University Press ; 1925

 

Renditions for Children

Mobie, H. W. : Beowulf : in "Brave and Bold" : pp 135-159 : James Nisbet & Co Ltd. : Welwyn : 1968

Nye, R. : Beowulf : Beaver: London: 1988

 

Books about Beowulf

Chambers, R. W. & Wrenn, C. L. : Beowulf, an introduction to the study of the poem with a discussion of the stories of Offa and Finn: Cambridge University Press: 1959

Grigsby, John : Beowulf & Grendel : Watkins : London : 2005

Newton, S. : The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia : D S Brewer : Suffolk : 1993

Tolkein, J. R. R. : Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. : Proceedings of the British Academy, 22 (1936), 245–95 {offprint} signed by author

Whitelock, D. : The Audience of Beowulf: Oxford University Press: 1967

Wilkinson, Paul & Mussett, Griselda Cann : Beowulf in Kent : Faversham Paper No. 64 : The Faversham Society : Faversham : 1998

 

Other Texts

Hamer, R. : A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse : Faber and Faber : London : 1981

 

Old English Readers, Gramars and Wordbooks

Barney, Stephen A. : Word Hoard : An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary : Yale University Press : New Haven and London : 1977

Biddulph, Joseph : A Shippen o'Sheep : An Introduction to the West Saxon of King Alfred's Day : ISBN 0 948565 10 1 : Languages Information Centre : Pontypridd : 1986

Biddulph, Joseph : A Handbook of Mercian : Remarks on the Midland Dialect of Late Anglo-Saxon : ISBN 0 948565 01 2 : Languages Information Centre : Pontypridd : 1986

Biddulph, Joseph : Gurt Tots and Tussicks : Illuminating the oldest English of the South : ISBN 0 948565 11 X : Languages Information Centre : Pontypridd : 1986

Biddulph, Joseph : The Language of the Old North: A portrait of the Northumbrian dialect of early English & of the Celtic, Norse & other tongues once used in the north of England : ISBN 0 948565 13 6 : Languages Information Centre : Pontypridd : 1986

Bosworth, Rev. Joseph : A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary : Gibbings and Company, Limited : London : 1901

Bright, James W. : An Anglo-Saxon Reader and Grammar : George Allen & Unwin : London : 1917

Brook, G. L. : An Introduction To Old English : Manchester University Press : Manchester : 1978

Harrison PhD, Thomas Perrin :  The Separable Prefixes in Anglo-Saxon : McGrath Publishing Company : Maryland : 1970

Jember. J K: English-Old English, Old English-English Dictionary : Westview Press : Boulder: Colorado : 1975

Mitchell, Bruce and Robinson, Fred C. : A Guide to Old English : Basil Blackwell : Oxford : 1986

Pollington, S. : Wordcraft : New English to Old English Dictionary and Thesaurus : Anglo Saxon Books : Swaffham : 1993

Quirk, R. and Wrenn, C. L. : An Old English Grammar : 2nd Edition : Methuen & Co. : London : 1965

Skeat, Rev Walter W. : An English - Anglo-Saxon Dictionary : Cambridge University Press : Cambridge : 1879

Sweet, H. & Davis, N. (Ed) : Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer : Ninth Edition : Clarendon Press : Oxford :

Sweet, H. & Hoad, T. F. ( ed.) : A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader : Archaic and Dialectical : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1979

Sweet, H. & Whitelock, D. (Ed.) : Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1967

Wright, J. & Wright, E. M. : Old English Grammar : Third Edition : Oxford University Press : Oxford : 1984

Wyatt, Alfred J. : An Anglo-Saxon Reader : Edited with hotes and glossary : Cambridge University Press : Cambridge : 1948

Wyatt, Alfred J.: An Elementary Old English Grammar (Early West Saxon) : Cambridge University Press : Cambridge : 1921

 

Anglo-Saxon History

Abels, Richard P. : Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England : British Museum Publications : London : 1988

Adema, Kendra : The Brilliance of Comitatus : Aesthetics and Society in Early Anglo-Saxon England : MA Thesis : Trent University : 2000

Hodgkin, R. H. : A History of the Anglo-Saxons  Vol. I : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1935

Hodgkin, R. H. : A History of the Anglo-Saxons  Vol. II : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1967

Myres, J. N. L. : The English Settlements : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1988

Stenton, Sir Frank :  Anglo-Saxon England : Clarendon Press : Oxford : 1987

 

General History, Philology etc.

Elliott, R. W. V. : Runes : Manchester University Press : Manchester : 1980

Glover, Judith : The Place Names of Kent : Meresborough Books : Chatham : 1992

Mills, A. D. : The Popular Dictionary of English Place Names : Oxford University Press : Oxford : 1991