Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

Handrit is a catalog of Icelandic manuscripts and provides digital images of much of the collection.

Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum is the home of the collection of Icelandic manuscripts gathered by Árni Magnússon.

The Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen also houses Icelandic manuscripts from Árni Magnússon’s collection as well as other manuscripts.

Text archives: Medieval Nordic Text Archive (MENOTA) publishes medieval texts and manuscripts in digital format; Icelandic Saga Database is a collection of Icelandic sagas and translations into a variety of languages; Heimskringla.no gives users access to out-of-print editions of Old Norse-Icelandic texts; Timarit is a digital repository of Icelandic magazines, newspapers, and journals; Bækur.is offers digital editions of books printed in Iceland.

Guide to learning and teaching Old Norse: Learn Old Norse

Dictionaries: The Dictionary of Old Norse Prose , An Icelandic-English Dictionary (compiled by Cleasby and Vigfusson in 1874), Zoëga, A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic.

Grammars: Alaric Hall’s Magic Sheet, A New Introduction to Old Norse, Viking Language Series.

The Norse Hagiography Network is a society for the study of vernacular and Latin hagiography in the Nordic region. The society organizes conference panels and other events.

A much longer list of digital Old Norse-Icelandic resources is available here.

Medieval English Literature

Manuscripts: The British Library has digitized many of its medieval English manuscripts. The Medieval Manuscripts Blog provides updated lists of digitized items. The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford has also digitized some of its manuscripts. The Bodleian database can be filtered by language. The University of Cambridge digital library allows users to search for digitized manuscripts in the various libraries in the Cambridge system. Digital images of manuscripts from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, can be found here.

The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry contains digital editions of most Old English poems; translations of many of the poems can be found at the Old English Poetry Project.

The Dictionary of Old English at the University of Toronto.

R.D. Fulk. An Introductory Grammar of Old English. 2014.

The Middle English Compendium provides users with access to the Middle English dictionary and a bibliography of Middle English prose and verse as well as the corpus of Middle English literature.

The Digital South English Legendary application allows users to view multiple versions of individual texts from this popular collection of saints’ legends.

The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS) publishes a Middle English Texts series.

The New Chaucer Society fosters teaching and research about Geoffrey Chaucer and his age. The society holds a biennial conference and publishes Studies in the Ages of Chaucer.

The Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English (LALME) allows users to locate linguistic varieties of written English in the late medieval period (c. 1325-1450).

General Resources

Primary texts archives and catalogs: The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, The Global Medieval Sourcebook, Online Medieval Sources Bibliography, Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (15th c. printed works), Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app, English Short Title Catalogue (printed works 1473-1800), Early English Books Online.

The Index of Medieval Art is a database of works produced between apostolic times and the sixteenth century.

The Global Middle Ages Project is an international collaborative project promoting the study of the whole world c. 500 to 1500 CE across disciplines and departments.

Medievalists of Color is a professional organization of a diverse group of scholars researching across disciplines in Medieval Studies.

In the Medieval Middle is a group blog encouraging conviviality and collaboration in medieval studies.

The Medieval and Early Modern Orients project promotes better understanding of the early interactions between England and the Islamic World.

The Medieval Academy of America is the largest US organization dedicated to the study of the Middle Ages and publishes the quarterly journal Speculum.

MEMSlib (Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent). “Unchaining the Library.” MEMSlib provides resources for manuscript studies and medieval literature, art, and history. The website also hosts forums dedicated to these subjects.

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship promotes study of the Middle Ages and Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist studies.

The Hagiography Society advances scholarship of holy people and their cults in all eras, cultures, and religious traditions.

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (at Arizona State University) hosts the RaceB4Race series, an annual conference, and publishes books and journals, including The Sundial.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance is a bibliography of 1.45 million citations for secondary source material.

The Once and Future Classroom is a collection of resources for teaching the Middle Ages as is the database The Middle Ages for Educators.

The Latin Word Study Tool

Medievalists.net publishes news items, articles, book reviews, and videos about the Middle Ages. The website also publishes The Medieval Magazine and hosts a podcast.