Frisian: Home

This guide is intended for students and researchers with an interest in Modern Frisian and Old Frisian at the University of Oxford, although students or researchers from any field may find it useful.

Use this guide to find out about books and online resources for Frisian Studies, including ebooks, ejournals and bibliographic databases.

This is a guide for Frisian language, literature and history, covering  Modern Frisian (West Frisian) and Old Frisian.

The Taylor Institution Library's Frisian Collection mainly consists of Prof. Alistair Campbell's library (Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford 1963-1974), which was donated to the Taylor Library in 1974.  The main Old Frisian text editions as well as more modern publications on the Old and Modern Frisian language serve scholars of Old Frisian, Modern Frisian as well as the wider field of Germanic languages. The collection also comprises J.R.R.Tolkien's copy of Richthofen's Altfriesisches Woerterbuch.

Old Frisian manuscripts are kept in the Bodleian Library in the Junius Collection (see page on manuscripts).