Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People: the Story of Caedmon - http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/caedmon/index.html Hypertext edition. Includes Old English text with running glossary and notes, reading list, modern English translation, contextual information, and electronic resources.
The Lindisfarne Gospels - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/euromanuscripts/lindisfarne.html An introduction to the manuscript and an explanation of its significance. From the British Library.
Anglo-Saxon Charters Online - http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/kemble/pelteret/2%20Index.htm Contains the complete Old English or Latin texts of the charters in the British Academy "Anglo-Saxon Charters" series. Includes bibliographic information for each charter and translations of some charters.
Anglo-Saxon Charters: the Electronic Sawyer - http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/eSawyer-intro.html A catalog of extant Anglo-Saxon charters, based on the printed work by Peter Sawyer. Each entry summarizes the contents of the charter, lists the manuscripts that contain the charter, and cites any printed editions, translations, and commentaries.
Eadwine Psalter: Manuscript Image - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/ Picture of besieged psalmist from the original in Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.17.1, fol. 66.
Lindisfarne, Rushworth, and West Saxon Glosses - http://www.bartleby.com/211/0707.html Describes the continuous Old English glosses of Latin words in the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels. Also covers the complete Old English translation known as the West-Saxon Gospels.
Anglo-Saxon Law: Extracts From Early Laws of the English. - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/saxlaw.htm Provides modern English translations of excerpts from important legal documents, together with a commentary on each document.
Anglo-Saxon Dooms - http://www.constitution.org/sech/sech_.htm Modern English translation of the laws of the Anglo-Saxon kings from Aethelberht (601-04) to Canute (1020-34).
The Paris Psalter - http://www.aug.edu/augusta/psalms/ Edition of the prose portion of the Paris Psalter (Psalms 1-50) by Richard Stracke. The Latin originals and the Old English prose translations appear in parallel columns.
St. Mary of Egypt - http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyengl2001t00018/html/lcantara.htm Linda Cantara's textual study of an Old English prose saint's life. Compares and contrasts two versions of the life and describes variant readings in three major categories: spelling, vocabulary, and syntax. Also touches on religious, cultural, and literary aspects of the life.
The Gospel of Luke - http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/polyglot/ Old English version of Luke from the "Polyglot Bible" site. Allows comparison with translations of Luke in several languages and in several different stages of the English language. Includes full-text search capability.
The Gospel of Matthew - http://home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_texts_bible_nt_matthew_excerpts.htm Three excerpts from Old English version of Matthew: 13:24-30, 18:23-24, and 25:1-12.
The Blickling Homilies - http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Blickling_Morris.pdf Modern English translation by R. Morris.
Acts in Old English: Selections - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4506/Acts-Compilation.pdf A compilation of quotations from the Acts of the Apostles by Old English prose writers.
The Gospel of Mark - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4506/mark-ws.html Old English version of Mark. Table of contents is a set of hyperlinks to each "scene" in Mark.
The Paris Psalter - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4506/psalms.html Edition of the prose portion of the Paris Psalter (Psalms 1-50) by the Bible Translation Project. Work in progress.
The Gospel of Luke - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4506/luke-ws.html Old English version of Luke.
Old English Glossaries: Creating a Vernacular - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/healey/ Scholarly introduction to Old English glossaries. Covers the origin and purpose of OE glossaries, describes the different types of glossaries, and explains their relationship to later English dictionaries.
The Laws of Aethelberht: a Student Edition - http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/essays.php?file=essays/oliver38_1.txt Lisi Oliver's complete edition of the laws, the oldest text in Old English, probably recorded between 597 and 604. Includes introduction, historical background, overview of manuscript and chronological layering, the original Old English text, textual notes, and glossary.
Lindisfarne Gospels: Manuscript Image - http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/staff/johannesson/!oemac/texts/oedial/aldred.htm This detail from an ornamented page in the Lindisfarne Gospels clearly shows the continuous Old English glosses above the Latin words.
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