Gillian Spraggs

Sappho

• The Divine Sappho: very good site with Greek texts and many translations
• Aoidoi.org has a useful commentary on the text of the recently reconstructed Sappho poem (fragment 58)

Renée Vivien

• Cristie Cyane’s excellent Renée Vivien site (in French)
• English biography of Renée Vivien by Karla Jay on the glbtq site

Riddles, Charms and Invocations

• The text of the Anglo-Saxon riddles from the Exeter Book, with suggested solutions and Craig Williamson’s translations. I own a copy of Williamson's book A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs; it has a fine essay on riddles by way of introduction.
• Carmina Gadelica, Gaelic folk poems from the Western Isles of Scotland, collected by Alexander Carmichael; one of the e-texts in the Internet Sacred Text Archive. I own and treasure a copy of the English-only edition published by Floris Books.

Bestiaries

• The Medieval Bestiary – magnificent illustrations
• Mythical creatures in the Encyclopedia Mythica

Images

• The Lewis chessmen at the British Museum
• The Splendor Solis images on Adam McLean's Alchemy website.

More Images: Illuminated Manuscripts

• The Cambridge Illuminations: an online exhibition of illuminated mss in Cambridge libraries
• Illuminated mss at the British Library
• Illuminated mss in the Bodleian Library
• Illuminated mss in French municipal libraries (English version)

Poetic Tradition

• The complete corpus of Anglo-Saxon poetry
• Maureen S. O’Brien’s Medieval Irish poetry site, with translations and a section on poetic forms
• William Skene's Victorian translations of Dark-Age Welsh poetry (unreliable but evocative)
• The Child Ballads project
• Another Child Ballads site

Contemporary Poetry

• The Poetry Magazines Archive maintained by the Poetry Library
• Poetry Archive: recordings of poets reading their work
• Gillian Clarke's website

Folklore

• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, edited by David Ashliman; an amazingly rich site
• Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas, again edited by David Ashliman
• Apotropaios, Brian Haggard's folk magic in Britain site
• Tam Lin Balladry, dedicated to variants of the Tam Lin ballads and story
• Folklore, the periodical published by the Folklore Society
• At the Edge, discontinued folklore journal; some excellent articles

Stories of Other Worlds

• Sir Orfeo, the finest of the mediaeval fairy romances
• The Endicott Studio for the Journal of the Mythic Arts
• Women on Fire: the Plaid Adder's compelling series of fantasy novels

Music

• The site for Alia Vox, the recording company of Hesperion XXI, probably the finest early music ensemble in the world