Dec 19, 2009

The Seafarer | Media Adaptations

Selected Readings in Old English, read by Edward N. Irving, Jr., in 1996 for Brigham Young University’s Chaucer Studios, contains “The Seafarer” among other poems in the original Old English. You can order this tape directly via the web at http://English.byu.edu/Chaucer. You can also download a sample of Old English poetry at the same web address with the suffix /oldeng.htm.

Also out of BYU’s Chaucer Studio comes another recording of Old English short poems along with riddles, made in 1990 by Rosamund Allen of the University of London under the title Old English...