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Beowulf in Cyberspace
Providing translations, maps, essays, and resources, this is a good online resource for students, particularly advanced students, reading and studying the Anglo Saxon poem, "Beowulf." The "Old English" glossary included at this website...
Other
Lone Star Internet: Culture Cafe: The Adventures of Beowulf
This site provides background information and the complete text of the Old English translation by Dr. David Breeden of Beowulf.
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature Library: "Beowulf" Study Guide [Pdf]
Introduce yourself to Anglo-Saxon literature by reading "Beowulf" and exploring its plot, themes, and characters with the help of this study guide. Check out a helpful "family tree" of the epic poem's characters, study new vocabulary...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: "Beowulf" Full Text
This site from the University of Toronto offers "Beowulf" in its entirety with the original Old English lines and their modern English translations alternated, line by line.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Contains plans for two lessons that examine different translations of "Beowulf" in order to study the nature of translation and examine the verse structure of the original text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Introduction to Beowulf Language and Poetics
Contains plans for one to two 50-minute sessions about the poetic form of the original Old English "Beowulf." In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf Introduction
This is an introduction to Beowulf, an epic and alliterative poem in the Old English from the 11th century. It features a link to the British Library with an image of the manuscript and information about Beowulf.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Background of the Epic
This lesson focuses on the definition of the epic and how Beowulf fits the definition. It provides links to a variety of translations of Beowulf, commentary on the translations, the complete text, an abridged text, and an audio version...
Other
Librivox: Beowulf, Translated by Francis Barton Gummere
This is the Eight-book audio version of Beowulf as translated by Francis Barton Gummere.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: The Fight With Grendel's Mother
This lesson focuses on Beowulf's fight with Grendel's Mother. It features links to the text in Old English or Modern, the reading of Chapters XIX-XXI, and a British Library exercise in translating Old English.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: The Final Battle and Burial
This lesson focuses on Beowulf's final battle and his funeral. It features links to various translations of Beowulf, the reading of Chapters XXXII - XXXVIII and XLIII, audio of "The Last Survivor's Speech" from Beowulf (lines 2241b-70a)...
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Digital Collections: Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery
This resource contains not only the full text of Beowulf, but also an audio stream of the translator, Dick Ringler, reading the poem.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: Prologue and Grendel
This lesson focuses on the Prologue of the epic poem Beowulf and the character Grendel, a monster of a giant race. It features links to several translations of Boewulf, cpmplete text, audio, and abridged versions. This lesson focuses on...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Beowulf by Anonymous
This is the full text of the Old English epic poem Beowulf by an unknown author. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, who has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf...
W. W. Norton
Norton Anthology: The Linguistic and Literary Contexts of "Beowulf"
Use these online resources from the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" to provide both depth and breadth to your understanding of the poem "Beowulf," whether you are a student reading it for the first time or a teacher preparing to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: The Fight With Grendel
This lesson focuses on Beowulf's fight with Grendel. It features links to the text in Old English or modern translation; audio, complete and abridged text; the article "Monsters and the Moral Imagination" by Stephen T. Asma; and a...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Monsters
Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, young scholars create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Genre and the Research Paper
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing a research paper. This guide explains to choose an appropriate research paper topic.
Sacred Text Archive
Ista: Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry
The Internet Sacred Text Archive offers the Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry. All of the titles link to primary documents, written in their original language.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: "Beowulf" (In Old English)
This Fordham University site offers the Klaeber edition of the Old English Beowulf in its entirety, with a link to a modern English translation.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghous: Lit2 Go: Beowulf
This is a poetic translation of "Beowulf," complete with footnotes. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "Beowulf" [Pdf]
Ideas for each section of the poem, discussion questions, project suggestions and other resources can be found in this 13 page .pdf guide.
McMaster University
Beowulf in Hypertext: Introduction Hwaet!
This site gives facts about the original Beowulf manuscript, its authorship, and its ties to archeology and culture. One may also read Beowulf in Old English or its translation to Modern English along with summaries of text portions and...
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: A Beowulf Test
The test can serve as a model for your own assessment of your students' understanding of the Old English epic poem.