Old English from its Indo-European Roots to the Norman Conquest

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Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,045 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating — 43,561 ratings
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language 3.94 avg rating — 5,091 ratings
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Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh
by: Unknown
3.87 avg rating — 3,295 ratings
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
by: Bede
3.83 avg rating — 4,778 ratings
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The Story of English
The Story of English 4.09 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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A History of the English Language
A History of the English Language 3.89 avg rating — 892 ratings
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The History of the Kings of Britain
The History of the Kings of Britain 3.72 avg rating — 6,789 ratings
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Grendel
Grendel 3.69 avg rating — 41,620 ratings
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The Cambridge Old English Reader
The Cambridge Old English Reader 4.03 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots 4.44 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle 3.98 avg rating — 963 ratings
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The English Language: A Historical introduction
The English Language: A Historical introduction 3.70 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Battle of Maldon
The Battle of Maldon
by: Anonymous
3.66 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Old English Exodus
The Old English Exodus 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Companion to Baugh & Cable's History of the English Language
A Companion to Baugh & Cable's History of the English Language 3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Anglo-Saxon Poetry 4.12 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth 3.98 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Guide to English Literature from Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama
Guide to English Literature from Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology 4.07 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts
Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Old English Literature: A Short Introduction
Old English Literature: A Short Introduction 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts
Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Battle of Maldon and Other Old English Poems
The Battle of Maldon and Other Old English Poems 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature
Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Widsith: A Study In Old English Heroic Legend
Widsith: A Study In Old English Heroic Legend 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages 4.29 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, #22)
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, #22) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Six Old English Chronicles: Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And Richard Of Cirencester
Six Old English Chronicles: Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And Richard Of Cirencester 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Guide to Old English
A Guide to Old English 4.14 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Poems and Prose from the Old English
Poems and Prose from the Old English 4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated
A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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An Old English Grammar
An Old English Grammar 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Aergeweorc: Old English Verse and Prose
Aergeweorc: Old English Verse and Prose 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Poems from the Old English
Poems from the Old English 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature 4.04 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion
Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England 4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Dating of Beowulf
The Dating of Beowulf 3.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Word Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary
Word Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary 4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, #248)
Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, #248) 4.11 avg rating — 372 ratings
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A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden 3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, #3)
The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 138 ratings
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A History of the English Language
A History of the English Language 4.29 avg rating — 294 ratings
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An Introduction to Old English
An Introduction to Old English 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Story of English in 100 Words
The Story of English in 100 Words 3.92 avg rating — 2,508 ratings
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Faces in the Fire (Women of Beowulf, #1)
Faces in the Fire (Women of Beowulf, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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History in English Words
History in English Words 4.10 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English 4.24 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 6)
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 6) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language 4.32 avg rating — 800 ratings
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Fanning the Flames (Women of Beowulf, #2)
Fanning the Flames (Women of Beowulf, #2) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Learn Old English with Leofwin
Learn Old English with Leofwin
by: Matt Love
4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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How Tradition Works: A MemeBased Cultural Poetics of the AngloSaxon Tenth Century (Volume 306) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
How Tradition Works: A MemeBased Cultural Poetics of the AngloSaxon Tenth Century (Volume 306) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cloak of Ashes (Women of Beowulf, #3)
Cloak of Ashes (Women of Beowulf, #3) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The History of the English Language: A Source Book
The History of the English Language: A Source Book 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode 4.01 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Old English minor heroic poems
Old English minor heroic poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A History of Old English Literature
A History of Old English Literature 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen 3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg Fourth Edition
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg Fourth Edition 4.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Language and History in Viking Age England: Linguistic Relations Between Speakers of Old Norse & Old English
Language and History in Viking Age England: Linguistic Relations Between Speakers of Old Norse & Old English 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The later Genesis and other Old English and Old Saxon texts relating to the fall of man
The later Genesis and other Old English and Old Saxon texts relating to the fall of man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose
Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury
Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works
Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature
The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature
by: John Hill
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation 3.38 avg rating — 458 ratings
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A History of Old English Literature
A History of Old English Literature 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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An Atlas Of Anglo-Saxon England
An Atlas Of Anglo-Saxon England 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England 3.57 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons 4.05 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Dream of the Rood: an Old English Poem Attributed to Cynewulf
The Dream of the Rood: an Old English Poem Attributed to Cynewulf
by: Cynewulf
3.72 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity
Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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First Steps in Old English
First Steps in Old English 4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings
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England before the Norman conquest
England before the Norman conquest 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Beowulf: an introduction to the study of the poem, with a discussion of the stories of Offa and Finn
Beowulf: an introduction to the study of the poem, with a discussion of the stories of Offa and Finn 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Man's Unconquerable Mind
Man's Unconquerable Mind 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: The Major Latin Texts in Translation, Volume 1. Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: The Major Germanic and Celtic Texts in Translation. Volume 2. 2 volume set.
Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: The Major Latin Texts in Translation, Volume 1. Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: The Major Germanic and Celtic Texts in Translation. Volume 2. 2 volume set. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Eight Old English Poems
Eight Old English Poems 4.48 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations (Warfare in History, 1)
The Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations (Warfare in History, 1) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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English Historical Documents, c. 500-1042
English Historical Documents, c. 500-1042 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Introduction to Old English
Introduction to Old English 3.84 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis saga'
The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis saga' liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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In the Foreground: Beowulf
In the Foreground: Beowulf really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Beowulf & Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures
Beowulf & Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Beowulf: An Edition
Beowulf: An Edition 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Exeter Book Riddles
The Exeter Book Riddles 3.88 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Cultural World in Beowulf
The Cultural World in Beowulf
by: John Hill
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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An Anthology of Old English Poetry
An Anthology of Old English Poetry 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Language, Sign and Gender in Beowulf
Language, Sign and Gender in Beowulf really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Beowulf: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series)
Beowulf: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Old English: Grammar and Reader
Old English: Grammar and Reader 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition
Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Rereading "Beowulf" (The Middle Ages Series)
Rereading "Beowulf" (The Middle Ages Series) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Reading of " Beowulf "
Reading of " Beowulf " it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Introduction to Beowulf
Introduction to Beowulf 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Teach Yourself Old English
Teach Yourself Old English 4.06 avg rating — 93 ratings
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