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Anglo-Saxons

Here are entered works on the early Anglo-Saxons until approximately 1066. Works on the nations of Anglo-Saxon descent are entered under Anglo-Saxon race.

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• Saxons

• Anglo-Saxons -- Biography
• Anglo-Saxons -- England
• Anglo-Saxons -- Fiction
• Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers
• Anglo-Saxons -- Sources

• Anglo-Saxon Britain, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Vita Quorundum Anglo-Saxonum: Original Lives of Anglo-Saxons and Others Who Lived Before the Conquest (in Latin with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1854), ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)
• Aelfric: A New Study of His Life and Writings (Yale Studies in English #2; Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Caroline Louisa White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)

• The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Karen Louise Jolly (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Karen Louise Jolly (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure (research report of the Society of Antiquaries of London #80; 2019), ed. by Chris Fern, Tania Marguerite Dickinson, and Leslie Webster (PDF at OAPEN)

• Early Wars of Wessex: Being Studies From England's School of Arms in the West (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Albany F. Major, ed. by Charles W. Whistler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Story of King Alfred (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), by Walter Besant (PDF at djm.cc)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (v4 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (Los Angeles: Angelus University, c1908), by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Royal Lineage: Alfred the Great, 901-1901 (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, printers, 1901), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• In the Days of Alfred the Great, by Eva March Tappan, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for Girls (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1900), by Lucy Foster Madison, illust. by Ida Waugh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• History of King Alfred of England (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877), by Jacob Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• King Alfred of England (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1849), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hereward, the Last of the English, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

• In the Days of Alfred the Great, by Eva March Tappan, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)

• The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays Illustrative of the History, Arts and Manners of the 9th Century (2 volumes; London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1858), by King of England Alfred, ed. by J. A. Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Electronic Sawyer: An Online Version of the Revised Edition of Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters, Section One (S 1-1602) (Cambridge, UK: British Academy / Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1999), by P. H. Sawyer, ed. by S. E. Kelly, contrib. by S. M. Miller (HTML at trin.cam.ac.uk)

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