Online Resources
In May 2003 the Old English Newsletter went online with the OEN Bibliography Database. As its website says, "the Bibliography records recent work on Anglo-Saxon literature, language, history, art, archaeology, and other topics. This site presents the annual OEN Bibliography in a searchable database." Access is free, but it is currently searchable only through 2006.
For the convenience of users the Third Edition of Electronic Beowulf provides here an updated online Beowulf Bibliography, 1990-2010. The Project History from 1991-99 is also archived online, including a series of articles giving the wider context of the project.
Under the direction of Antonette diPaolo Healey, the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is preparing The Dictionary of Old English, a monumental lexicon of the first 600 years of the English language. As of March 2011, the project had published fascicles A-G, which are available online by subscription and on CD.
Still important and accessible is the famous nineteenth-century Bosworth-Toller Dictionary, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth ... Edited and Enlarged by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1882-98). Charles University in Prague has recently provided a searchable version.
The massive Supplement, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth: Supplement by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921), is also available for online research.
Resources for the Study of Beowulf offers general readers, students, and scholars a carefully compiled, well-organized, and continually maintained gateway to Beowulf studies.
