Old Engli.sh

The Portal to the Language of the Anglo-Saxons

The Old-Engli.sh Media Archive



Watch documentaries on a variety of Old English topics. Learn about the Anglo-Saxons, their history, culture and language with entertaining video clips.

Produced in 1992
<i>Before Babel</i> documentary logo
Before Babel A BBC-Horizon documentary
A BBC documentary on language reconstruction, the discovery of the Indo-European language family (of which (Old) English is a member), the hypothesis of language superfamilies and the notion of a mother tongue of all human languages spoken today.


Produced in 2003
Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons DVD cover
DVD cover of the 2007 DVD release
A BBC4 documentary about one of the British Library's most valuable gems: the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. This 60 minute program explores the epic poem, its preservation and re-discovery by Tolkien.


Produced in 2012
Staffordshire gold hoard discovered in 2009
The Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard found in 2009
A 2012 BBC2 documentary on one of the largest treasures ever found: the Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon gold hoard.





Find here a collection of free, downloadable Old English text editions and translations, including Apollonius of Tyre. Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, Biblical Translations, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and many other texts. Continue...