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
• Vivien Ellis has a beautiful voice and an expressive way with narrative songs in particular. She sings medieval songs and traditional folk songs. Listen to her singing The Lover's Ghost. (And then buy her CDs and play them on a proper music system – or better still, hear her sing live if you can)