| 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. |
| About Old English: Answers the questions: What is old English, Why learn Old English, and Why is Old English so different from modern English. By Murray McGillivray |
| An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Richly illustrated online seminar by Michelle Brown. Sessions include: Anglo-Saxon England and the Book, Reading and Writing the Manuscripts, Spiritual and Secular Worlds, Materials and Techniques, and Illustration and Ornament. |
| Anglo-Saxon Book Production and Distribution: Explains the roles played by monasteries, the royal court, and the laity in the book trade in Anglo-Saxon England. By Nikki Hessell. |
| ASPR Search Engine: This online tool finds all occurrences of a specified word or phrase in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (ASPR), which contain the complete body of Old English poetry. |
| 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 |
| Case in Old English: Robert Stevick's study of case and other grammatical elements of Old English. |
| Changes in the English Language: a Comparison of Old, Middle, and Modern English: For each verse of Luke 2:1-19, displays an Old English, Middle English, and Modern English version of the verse. |
| Englisc Composition Listserv: An electronic discussion group dedicated to writing and communicating in Old English. Includes event announcements and links. |
| Junicode Font Page: Junicode is a font for medievalists created by Peter Baker. If a computer is unable to display certain characters that can appear in online Old English texts, the Junicode font supplies the needed characters. Site describes the font and includes a link to a page from which the font can be downloaded. |
| MANCASS C11 Database Project: A tool for searching for variant forms of words used in eleventh-century English manuscripts, and for finding the manuscripts in which the variants occur. Each occurrence of a word in a manuscript shows the linguistic context in which the word is used. Database includes a number of additional tools, all developed and maintained by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS). |
| Medieval Writing: Literate English: Study of the history of written English, with emphasis on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the culture that produced them. Includes numerous illustrations and photos. |
| Meter in Old English Poetry: Describes the use of alliteration in Old English poems and the rhythmic patterns employed in the individual lines of these poems. By Peter Baker. |
| Old English Alphabet: 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. |
| 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. |
| Old English Graphotactics: 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. |
| Old English Language: Introduction to Old English from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Covers Germanic origins; Latin, Norse, and Celtic influence; dialects, phonology, and orthography; and grammar. |
| 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. |
| Old English Syntax: Some Literary Illustrations: Shows how selected literary texts exemplify characteristic features of Old English syntax. |
| Old English Verb Conjugator: Online tool that accepts the infinitive form of an Old English verb as input and displays the complete conjugation of that verb as output. Also summarizes Old English verb groups and classes. |
| Poetic Style in Old English: Explains the stylistic characteristics of Old English poems, including a vocabulary found only in poems, the use of variation in poetic sentences, and the formulaic nature of poetic phrases and themes. By Peter Baker. |
| Reading Old English Manuscripts: Provides essential information for reading Old English manuscripts as opposed to the transcriptions used in edited texts. Covers the Old English alphabet, manuscript abbreviations, punctuation, capitalization, word and line divisions, and errors and corrections. By Peter Baker. |
| Runes and Manuscripts: Studies the development of the alphabet and writing in Anglo-Saxon England. Topics include: the national Germanic alphabet (runes), the use of runes in literature, the influence of the Roman and Irish alphabets on the English hand, the tools of book-making, and the role of scribes and scriptoria. |
| Runes in Anglo-Saxon England: A summary of how the Anglo-Saxons used runes in art, literature, and daily life. |
| The Anglo-Saxons and Their Language: Explains who the Anglo-Saxons were, where their language came from, and what their language was like. Also describes the relationship of Old English to other Germanic languages and to modern English. By Peter Baker. |
| The Grammar of Old English Poetry: Describes the features of grammar in Old English poetry that distinguish it from the grammar of prose. Covers inflections, syntax, and word order. By Peter Baker. |
| The Influence of Latin on Old English: Shows how Latin influenced the Old English alphabet, syntax, and vocabulary. By Edward Moore |
| The Origins of Old English: 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. |
| The Runic Alphabet: Shows the entire set of Anglo-Saxon runic symbols. Includes the name of each symbol and the equivalent English letter for that symbol. |
| The Sounds of Old English: Robert D. Stevick's account of the Old English sound system. Includes exercises. |
| The Study of Latin and English at Winchester: Shows how a standard literary Old English developed at Aethelwold's Winchester School. By Charles Stone. |
| Today in Old English: Displays the current day, date, and time in Old English. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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