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from the North East England
Pages
history website
command of the written word,
in addition to a well-developed
oral tradition, was of tremendous
importance. this website shows
us the development of the written
word in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
Ohthere
, fl. 880, Norse explorer.
His account of his voyage around
the North Cape, along Lapland, and
into the White Sea was incorporated
by Alfred the Great in the
introduction to his Anglo-Saxon
translation of Orosius' universal
history and was requoted by
Hakluyt in his Principal Navigations.
Another voyage of Ohthere southward
along the Norwegian coast and to
Denmark furnished additional
information on the geography
of Northern Europe.
this remarkable set of pages
is to be found on the
Suffolk - Heritage, Coast
and Countryside website
a forum for composing
in Old English
The English Companions
the society for people interested
in all aspects of Anglo-Saxon
culture and language
repository of the
Lindifarne Gospels
thought to have been a Welsh
monk writing about Britain in the
5th century
an online course from the
University of Calgary, Canada
the great archeological dig
in England
the Anglo-Saxon royal cemetery
at Sutton Hoo, in Sufflok, England
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