Krupina E.A.

The article discusses Internet resources and electronic publications, such as Beowulf in Hypertext, Gutenberg E-book of Beowulf, Beowulf in Cyper-space, CliffsNotes, Old English Aerobics, as well as K. Kiernan's "Electronic Beowulf", created for independent reading and studying the Old English poem "Beowulf". Particular attention is paid to the educational aspects of these electronic and Internet manuals.

Key words: Old English epic literature, Beowulf, electronic edition, learning resource, self-study, distance learning.

The article presents the results of the analysis of the glossaries to the Old English poem “Beowulf”. They are glossaries by B. Thorpe (1855), A. Wyatt (1894), J. Sedgefield (1910). R. Chambers (1914), F. Klaeber (1922). The purpose of the work is to observe the macrostructure of the dictionaries given above. The lexicographic analysis showed the main principles of proper names presentation in the given dictionaries. The main meaningful elements of Anglo-saxon culture on the basis of the names of a person were defined with the help of the statistical analysis.