Education on line

I found I'm spending too much time on line and with election season, the internet is full of "ain't it awful" stuff.

The monsoon season is coming, which means thunderstorms and it won't be as hot, so I will be spending less time (except early morning) on line.

Right now, I have switched from the Bronze age Greece to the English Dark Ages.

Professor Stuart Lee in Oxford has some lectures on line HERE.

Michael Drout (of Tolkien Encyclopedia) has some stuff on line LINK  and at iTunes....lthough right now his free ebook "King Alfred Grammar" is offline.

Lots of stuff on line about that time, including
Michael Woods has one series "In Search of the Dark Ages" along with a series on English History...




A related item are the Vikings, who wrecked the place.

Lot of BBC stuff on Vikings, not only in England but in Iceland and the sagas.


Spoken Lore has podcasts of various sagas.

Librivox has not only Tacitus but several audiobooks on the vikings and the sagas, a biography of King Alfred, and histories of England.

anglo saxon stuff includes:

1. Pound, Ezra. "Seafarer: From the Anglo-Saxon, The" (in "Long Poems Collection 002") · (readers)
2. Sharp, Robert. "Essay on Anglo-Saxon Literature" (in "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2") · (readers)
3. [Multilingual] Sweet, Henry. " Be manna cræftum, from First Steps in Anglo-Saxon" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 002") · (readers)
4. Sweet, Henry. "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Be þissum middangearde" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001") · (readers)
5. Sweet, Henry. "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Nouns section" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001") · (readers)
6. Sweet, Henry. "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon, Pronunciation section" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001") · (readers)
7. [Multilingual] Sweet, Henry. "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon: Adjectives, Numerals and Pronouns" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 002") · (readers)
8. [Multilingual] Sweet, Henry. "First Steps in Anglo-Saxon: Verbs" (in "LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 002") · (readers)
9. Various. "Selected works from Anglo-Saxon Literature" (in "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2") · (readers)
10. Bede, The Venerable. "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England" (Open) · (readers)

then there are lots of stuff about vikings:

1. [Multilingual] Anonymous. "Old Norse - Voluspa" (in "Multilingual Poetry Collection 001") · (readers)
2. Dasent, George W., Sir. "Popular Tales from the Norse" · (readers)
3. Hall, Jennie. "Viking Tales" · (readers)
4. Anonymous. "Eirik the Red's Saga" · (readers)
5. Magnússon, Eiríkr. "Völsungasaga" · (readers)

Dr. Vaughn has a course on the Vikings at Univ Houston. which probably goes into a lot  more information about them than you might want to know, (an upper level History course).




She also has courses on the Normans, the Middle Ages, and the Crusades which I am downloading to listen to later.