Old English Poetry, (re)Edited to Digital Facsimile, with a Methodology of Restorative Retention
-- directed by Martin Foys, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“We should feel happiest as editors when we have demonstrated that a manuscript reading, spurned and excised by previous editors, deserves to stand in the text.” — E.G. Stanley (1984, 273)
OEPF is a Medieval Academy of America Medieval Digital Resource, peer reviewed and formally recommended by members of the Speculum Review Board and the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee. Work on the project is ongoing, with estimated completion in 2028.
Recent Editions Published:
The Partridge (Exeter Book), July 2025
Resignation (Exeter Book), July 2025
The Husband's Message (Exeter Book), June 2025
The Panther (Exeter Book), June 2025
Exeter Riddle 93, June 2025
Wulf and Eadwacer (Exeter Book), June 2025
Almsgiving (Exeter Book), June 2025
Soul & Body II (Exeter Book), June 2025
Paris Psalm 148, June 2025
"The Capture of Ælfheah" (Old English Chronicle, 1011 CDEF), May 2025
• Total works edited in OEPF: 336
• Total lines edited in OEPF: 25,005
• % of poetic corpus edited in OEPF: 80.7%
• % of poetic corpus available in digital facsimile editions (OEPF, Beowulf and "Cædmon's Hymn" ): 91.0%
• OEPF work completed: 89.9%
• For Beowulf, see Kevin Kiernan, ed. Electronic Beowulf, 4th Edition (2015): http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/
• For "Cædmon's Hymn", see Dan O'Donnell, ed. Cædmon’s Hymn: A Multimedia Study, Edition and Archive (2005, 2018): https://caedmon.seenet.org/
• Note: Below are all completed OEPF editions; click on the link to directly open the desired edition. You can also link below to index pages for individual manuscripts or genres (where available), link directly to the project's index for all editions, or, once inside the OEPF project, open the different category folders to see edited works, digital facsimiles and translations.