Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Anglo-Saxon Poetry: recordings

I wish I'd had access to a resource such as this website, "Anglo-Saxon Aloud", when I was trying to memorise Anglo-Saxon poetry as a student at Oxford. It helps to make the poetry and language seem more familiar.

I remember trying to record the whole of Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon on a heavy Telefunken reel-to-reel tape recorder, in order to play it back at night as I was falling asleep, in the hope that I'd remember most of it!

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