THE SIXTEEN RESOURCES

Searobend links together metadata from sixteen major corpora and resources of medieval English, making them interoperable for the first time.

This increases the visibility of what is available in machine-readable format, enables new quantitative and qualitative clarity about how much English survives from the period between 1000–1300. The selection of resources was motivated by considerations of economy, utility and authority.

C11DB

Scragg, Donald, Alexander Rumble and Kathryn Powell, eds. 2004. Manchester Eleventh-Century Spellings Database

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C11G

Scragg, Donald and Kathryn Powell. 2009. English Glosses in Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

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Cameron 1973

Cameron, Angus. 1973. ‘A List of Old English Texts’, in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English eds. Roberta Frank and Angus Cameron. Toronto: University of Toronto 
Press. 25-306

ESAWYER

Keynes, Simon et al. The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters. 2010

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Gneuss & Lapidge 2014

Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge. 2014. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100. Toronto: Toronto UP

Helsinki Corpus

Risannen, Matti et al. 1991. The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts

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Ker 1957

Ker, N. R. 1957. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Laeme

Laing, Margaret. 2013. A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, 1150-1325. Version 3.2

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Laing 1993

Laing, Margaret. 1993. Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer

Med Bibliography

Lewis, Robert and Mary Jane Williams. 2000. Middle English Dictionary Bibliography. 
Online Version

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Pelteret 1990

Pelteret, David A. E. 1990. Catalogue of English Post-Conquest Vernacular Documents. Woodbridge: Boydell

PPCME

Kroch, Anthony, Ann Taylor and Beatrice Santorini. 2016. Penn-HelsinkiParsed Corpus of Middle English. 2nd ed. Release 4

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Scragg 2021

Scragg, Donald. 2021. A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 700-1100. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer

TOXIIC

Faulkner, Mark. 2018. Trinity Old English from the XIIth Century. Release 1

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YCOE

Taylor, Ann et al. 2003. York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose

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YCOEP

Pintzuk, Susan and Leendert Plug. 2001. York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry

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HALL OF FAME

Browse our hall of fame of some of the more notable and surprising people, places and manuscripts in the Searobend knowledge graph, from Seamus Heaney, who translated Beowulf, a poem copied around 1000, to owls, foxgloves, and the city of Kilkenny, where at least one of our works was written.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney translated Beowulf, the most famous 
Old English poem.
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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien was a professor of Old English and Old English works were a major source of inspiration for The Lord of the Rings.
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Kilkenny

There's at least one surviving text of a Middle English 
work from Kilkenny.
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An Owl

In one early Middle English poem, an owl argues with a nightingale for over 1,000 lines about who's best.
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Foxglove

One reader added the English name of 'foxglove' to a Latin text about the plant.
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Sauce

One manuscript lists how much the ingredients cost for sauces served at royal banquets around 1300
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Kildare

There's a satire on the People of Kildare in one manuscript now in the British Library
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Thunder

There are prophecies that predict the future based on when it thunders
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Alfred Jewel

Some of the texts are shaped from metal or carved on bone or wood
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