Will Johnson wrote:
You forgot to include one of the best resources ever.
_www.wikisource.org_ (http://www.wikisource.org)
I've never had much luck finding any relevant medieval material
there. Am I
missing something? There seems to be an index page here for medieval
texts:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Medieval_Texts:Titles
But most of the links are red, which seems to mean the page isn't present
yet.
Chris Phillips
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Sorry for the delay, but I did wish
to mention two pages:
List of Wikipedias
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
List of Wikipedias by language family - Meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... age_family
List of Wikipedias. You will note that
# 90., listed under 100+ articles,
is Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_language
"Old English was not static, and its usage
covered a period of some 700 years – from
the Anglo-Saxon migrations into England
of the fifth century to some time after
the Norman invasion of 1066, when the
language underwent a major and dramatic
transition." Additional connections go to
Anglo-Saxon literature, which includes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_literature
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
and further listings of Chroniclers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chroniclers
using 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Encyc ... Britannica
One such Chronicler is Nestor the Chronicler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_the_Chronicler
His site has a further external link
to a Russian text of the chronicle
http://www.imwerden.de/pdf/povest_vremennyx_let.pdf
I suggest to soc.genealogy.medieval members,
that entering a wiki search via the two Lists,
provides, by the time periods of language usage,
a methodology to clue into valuable primary
resources and information.
Respectfully yours,
Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] - 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, {both editions]
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/