The Electronic Beowulf Project was developed by The British Library since spring 1993 in cooperation with the University of Kentucky and Western Michigan University. The first manuscript to digitize was the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and a huge collection of images was created. By 1998, the d...
Interesting facts about the English language No academy guides the English language, unlike the Real Academia Española for Spanish and L’Académie française for French. The Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung oversees the German language. In 100 words commonly used in English, 96 of them are of...
The 9-foot- (3-m-) long Viking age rock carving Sigurdsristningen (around A.D. 1000) illustrates the story of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer whose adventures are mentioned inBeowulfand the Icelandic sagas. It is also said that his story inspired Richard Wagner’sRing Cycleand JRR Tolkien’s Th...