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Old English links

To learn about Old English, consult some of the resources below.

About Old English

• Old English: Wikipedia entry. An encyclopedia entry about Old English.

Learning to read Old English

• The Instant Old English Phrasebook by Prof. Catherine Ball, Georgetown University.
• Hwæt! Old English in Context, also by Prof. Catherine Ball.
• The Electronic Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker
• Old English Made Easy by J. R. Johnson
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader. A public-domain OE textbook, not OCRed.
• Things to read:
  • Old English Wikipedia. An encyclopedia in Old English.
  • Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos.
  • Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies.
  • Beowulf in Hypertext at McMaster University.
  • Three poems: Deor, the Funeral of Scyld Scefing, and the Battle of Brunanburh.
• More things to read, on a lighter note:
  • Today in Old English by Prof. Catherine Ball.
  • Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor by Philip Chapman-Bell.
  • The New Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Language Resources

• Dictionaries
  • Old English Made Easy: Dictionaries by J. R. Johnson (MnE-OE, OE-MnE).
  • Bosworth and Toller's Dictionary (OE-MnE).
• Glossaries and other resources:
  • Old English Glossary by Michael Drout (OE-MnE).
  • Glossary from Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader (OE-MnE).
  • AnsaxDat Database (MnE-OE).
  • Circolwyrde Wordhord. A glossary of Old English computer terms, by Carl T. Berkhout (MnE-OE).
• Automated or somewhat-automated translation:
  • Verbix - conjugate verbs online in hundreds of languages.
  • EOW: A searchable OE-MnE Dictionary (MnE-OE, OE-MnE).

Composition in Old English

• The englisc list:
  • The englisc list webpage
  • more information
  • list archives
• Old English Wikipedia. An encyclopedia in Old English.