An electronic discussion group dedicated to writing and communicating in Old English. Includes event announcements and links.
Robert D. Stevick's account of the Old English sound system. Includes exercises.
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.
Explains the structures common to all Old English poems: half-lines, metrical patterns (Sievers’ types), alliteration, kennings, and variations
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.
Introduction to Old English from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Covers Germanic origins; Latin, Norse, and Celtic influence; dialects, phonology, and orthography; and grammar.
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.
Shows how selected literary texts exemplify characteristic features of Old English syntax.
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.
Robert Stevick's study of case and other grammatical elements of Old English.
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