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An electronic discussion group dedicated to writing and communicating in Old English. Includes event announcements and links.
www.rochester.edu
Robert D. Stevick's account of the Old English sound system. Includes exercises.
www.hcu.ox.ac.uk
A site dedicated to editions of Old English texts that include the graphotactics of original manuscripts and to studies of these texts. Graphotactics concerns the incidence and measure of spacings between strings of written symbols of a text. In such texts both the graphic symbols and the spacings carry linguistic information. Site includes text and syntactical study of Beowulf.
faculty.washington.edu
Building Blocks of Old English Poetry
Explains the structures common to all Old English poems: half-lines, metrical patterns (Sievers’ types), alliteration, kennings, and variations
www.sp.uconn.edu
Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact
Studies the position of the verb in Old English word order and shows the influence of this “V2” (verb-second) syntax on the word order of Middle English dialects.
www.ling.upenn.edu
Introduction to Old English from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Covers Germanic origins; Latin, Norse, and Celtic influence; dialects, phonology, and orthography; and grammar.
en.wikipedia.org
Shows the form and pronunciation of each letter in the Old English alphabet. Includes a sample text from a manuscript, a transcription of this text, and a modern English translation.
www.omniglot.com
Old English Syntax: Some Literary Illustrations
Shows how selected literary texts exemplify characteristic features of Old English syntax.
www.chass.utoronto.ca
Old English Compared to Modern English
Merriam-Webster Online article uses a passage from Aelfric's Homily on St. Gregory to show the similarities and differences between Old English and Modern English. Also compares Middle English to Modern English and describes the Germanic roots of Old English.
www.m-w.com
Robert Stevick's study of case and other grammatical elements of Old English.
faculty.washington.edu
Old English Manuscripts Database
Gives descriptive information for each of the approximately 200 Old English manuscripts containing a significant amount of Anglo-Saxon. Includes a brief introduction to Old English manuscripts.
www.georgetown.edu
Covers the origins of Old English words, including West Germanic, Latin, Scandinavian, and Celtic borrowings. Also provides a diagram of the family tree of the Germanic languages, which shows all the stages of descent from Proto-Germanic to modern English and other modern Germanic languages. By Tony Jebson.
lonestar.texas.net
Answers the questions: What is old English, Why learn Old English, and Why is Old English so different from modern English. By Murray McGillivray
www.ucalgary.ca
A Brief History of Old English
Explains how political and cultural events changed the Anglo-Saxon language into the English spoken today. By Michael Drout.
acunix.wheatonma.edu
Tricks for Translating Old English
Gives tips for making the translation of Old English easier. These tricks involve an understanding of certain grammatical constructions that are very common in Old English: modal plus infinitive, partitive genitive, locative dative, and the "ge" prefix of verbs. By Michael Drout.
acunix.wheatonma.edu