Medieval
Epic
- The Electronic Beowulf Now primarily advertisements and help pages for the 2 CD Electronic Beowulf from the University of Michigan Press.
- Beowulf Francis Gummere's familiar translation.
- Beowulf speaks Listen to well-chosen snippets of Beowulf (Wave and TrueSpeech files). Part of the extensive Old English site at the University of Virginia.
- The original text A quick-loading text of the Anglo-Saxon.
- Bulfinch's Mythology A quick synopsis of Beowulf, with some useful links and images.
- An evening with Beowulf A review of Beowulf live on stage with Benjamin Bagby. A brief description of a highly effective performance.
- Song of Roland Moncrief's translation of the brilliant Old French epic.
- Epic, Romance, and the Love of God: Medieval France and England Daniel Tucker's interdisciplinary course in medieval studies
- Course on Genre in Medieval Literature Emphasis on epic forms
- The alliterative Morte Arthure Valerie Krishna's critical edition of the underread Middle English epic.
- Layamon's Brut (MS Cotton Caligula) (2: Brut (MS Cotton Otho))
- Nibelungenlied Shumway's 1909 translation.
- The Story of Burnt Njal (DL SunSITE) DaSent's 1861 translation.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) Translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson
- Volsungs and Niblungs. With material from the Elder Edda. The Bartleby version of the Morris and Magnusson translation
- Heimskringla Laing's 1844 translation of Snorri Sturleson
- The World of Dante With an impressive magnifying glass for the Infernal World
- La Divina Commedia An attractive and fast loading Italian site
- Troilus and Criseyde Windeatt's edition
- The Lay of Igor's Raid Wonderful Russian epic of Igor, Vsevolod, and Boyan, "nightingale of old", in a prosy older translation.
- Ethnography in Dede Korkut Memmed Dadashzade's substantial essay on Azerbaijani aspects of the 14th century Turkish epic (or dastan,"the principal repository of ethnic identity, history, customs and the value systems of its owners and composers").
- The Lay of the Cid 1919 translation by Rose and Bacon
- Legends: The Cid Brief description and commentary
- Mapas para El poema de Mío Cid Useful maps for reading or teaching the great Spanish epic