| Cithara |
| Germanic Harp |
| Hearpe |
| Hearpa |
| Lyra |
| North European Lyre |
| Rote |
| Rotta |
| Saxon Lyre |
| The Sutton Hoo Instrument |
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| Busy Mole Harps £150, (€225) |
| Coog Early Instruments $500 but BEAUTIFUL! |
| The Early Music Shop £ 293.75 kit £479.11 complete |
| Markland Strings $200-235 |
| Michael J King £500-700 replicas based on specific archaeological finds. |
| Orphic Airs $125-150. The Saxon lyre shown is their old lyre that was built for a customer who desired 4 strings. Their current lyre is "an almost exact replica of the Sutton Hoo lyre, down to the brass nails and bone bridge". - Danae for Orphic Airs |
| Silvershell Musical Instruments $200 |
| Theod $270-785 Harps, Owner's Manual, CD Tutorial |
| Thurau-Harfenmanufaktur These folks make custom historical harps in addition to their catalog. They made Benjamin Bagby's lyre. |
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| Interview with Benjamin Bagby by Andante Magazine |
| Biography of Benjamin Bagby on the site for Sequentia, an ensemble he directs |
| Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf He performs Beowulf accompanying himself on a lyre. I got to see this in Eugene, Oregon in 2005 and it was amazing. He will perform the whole thing at the Lincoln Center in 2006. I believe a DVD of his performance will be available after that. |
| Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper by Sequentia |
| The Rhinegold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Revenge from the Medieval Icelandic Edda by Sequentia |
| EDDA: An Icelandic Saga, Myths from Medieval Iceland by Sequentia |
| Harp Runes From Allfather's Hall |
| Songs of the Elder Trow |
| The Wita |
| Songs of the Ancient Goths |
| The Art of Theodish Galdorcraft |
| Kaingk by Bragod Welsh Lyre and Crwth music. |
| Avanti Musick |
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| Prittlewell, England |
| Sutton Hoo, England |
| Snape, England |
| Bergh Apton, England |
| Morning Thorpe, England |
| Taplow, England |
| Scole, England - Bridge and tuning peg in the British Museum |
| Oberflacht, Germany - The most interesting is a real specimen of wood found in an Alamannic tomb of the 4th to the 7th century at Oberflachtf in the Black Forest, and now preserved in the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin (Picture of replica of it in the Met) |
| Abingdon, England |
| Cologne, Germany |
| Kerch, Germany |
| Hedeby, Germany |
| Bridges for the instrument have also been found at places as far apart as York and Sweden. |
| Trossingen, Germany |
| Anglo-Saxon Lyre Tuning Key with Boar terminal, possibly mid 7th-century, from Gayton, Norfolk, private collection |
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| The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction, and Playing Techniques by Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson and Þóra Sharptooth |
| Making a Simple Lyre By Patrick Woolery |
| The Beowulf Bardic Board: a Lyre by Lavrans Reimer-Møller |
| The Anglo-Saxon Hearpe by Peter C. Horn (Wiðowinde Issue 115, page 22) |
| Tuning the Sutton Hoo Instrument by Master Orrick of Romney |
| Sutton Hoo Cithara by Sir Andras Salamandra |
| Floregium - instruments contains notes by Þóra Sharptooth on the Sutton Hoo lyre |
| Tuning the Lyre and Crwth by Bragod |
| Anglo-Saxon Lyres by Michael J King Several pages with links to archaeological information, lyres he makes, mp3s to hear what they sound like, and how to tune an play them. |
| Hexachords, Solmization, and Musica Ficta by Margo Schulter Section 1 has information on tuning a 6 string lyre. |
| North European Lyre Bragod tunes and plays the lyre MP4 Quicktime video |
| The Lyre Project by Catnip |
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| Savelli, Mary. The Lyre Handbook: Playing Styles of the Anglo-Saxon Lyre with Directions for Construction. This contains a good bibliography and exercises in modern musical notation. |
| Taylor, Ronald Zachary. Making Early Stringed Instruments. |
| Lawson, G. "Stringed Musical Instruments: Artefacts in the Archaeology of North-West Europe 500 B.C. - A.D. 1200." University of Cambridge Doctoral Dissertation, 1980 (unpublished). |
| Ælfric (Michael Moell). The Germanic Harp Owner’s Manual This is written for someone who cannot read music. The exercises are explained in words, and it contains a song based on Cædmon's Hymn written in tablature. |
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| Bruce-Mitford, R. L. S. "The Sutton Hoo Musical Instrument." Archaeological News Letter 1 (1948). |
| Wrenn, C. L. "Two Anglo-Saxon Harps." Comparative Literature 14 (1962). |
| Bessinger, J. "Beowulf and the Harp at Sutton Hoo." University of Toronto Quarterly 27 (1957). |
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| David Playing the lyre Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A. i, f. 30v-31) |
| David Rex Durham Cassiodorus (Durham, Cathedral Library Ms B. II. 30, fol. 81v) |
| David Playing His Lyre Clonmacnois, Ireland. Cross of the Scriptures. South Side. Panel S2 |
| Man Seated playing a lyre Sockburn, England. Cross fragments |
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