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Old English Language Study
Language CoursesOld English at the University of CalgaryThe University of Calgary courses in Old English language and literature constructed by Murray McGillivray are free for everyone, offer simple and more complex, fully glossed prose and poetry text excerpts, background reading, grammar exercises and much more.http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/
Old English Online
This website is designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner. It will introduce you, topic by topic, to the structure and sound of the Old English language in easy to digest chunks with plenty of opportunity to practice along the way.
https://oldenglish.info/
The Old English Companions Correspondence Course
A paid introduction to Old English created by the Old English Companions website. The first lesson can be accessed for free. The course comprises a series of eight lessons with exercises, grammar and vocabulary material. There are also pocket-sized drillbooks and an audio CD.
http:/www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/old-english-correspondence-course
Study aids
Wiktionary Old English
Wiktionary is an excellent resource for the etymology and inflectional paradigms of a great many Old English words. Type in any word to trace its history back through time, often all the way to the Anglo-Saxon period.
http://www.wiktionary.org
Old English Aerobics
Old English Aerobics provides on-line Old English texts, exercises and a glossary. It forms the supplementary materials of Peter Baker's book Introduction to Old English.
http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/
Other
Pragmatic Reasons to study Old English
Short article on Prof. Dr. Nokes's blog on why we should care to study Old English.
http://unlocked-wordhoard.blogspot.com/2008/08/pragmatic-reasons-to-study-old-english.html
TOEBI: Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
The professional organisation of Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) aims to support the teaching of Old English in British and Irish Universities and to promote the public image of Old English. The organisation offers a yearly newsletter, conferences and study resources.
https://www.toebi.org.uk/
Richard Rawlinson Center
The Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research at Western Michigan University fosters teaching and research on Anglo-Saxon England in particular and on the field of manuscript studies in general. It hosts the International Congress on Medieval Studies as well as other events and is involved in a wide range of research activities.
https://wmich.edu/medieval/research/early-england
Wikipedia in Old English
Wikipedia in Old English: Read articles about historical events, news or technology in Old English.
http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afodtramet
Old English News
Old English Newsletter
The online version of the University of Tennessee Old English Newsletter is a great source for news, announcements, and information on the world of Anglo-Saxon studies. It also provides a bibilographical database and a comprehensive link section.
http://www.oenewsletter.org
Old English Texts
Anthologies
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
An Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet (1845-1912) is one of the most widely used Old English anthologies in the world. In includes a selection of valuable prose and poetry in West-Saxon and other dialects.
https://archive.org/details/anglosaxonreader00swee
Beowulf
BeowulfTranslations.net
BeowulfTranslations.net is a comparative library presenting excerpts from over 100 English language translations of the epic poem Beowulf. It also contains a ton of information on the Beowulf manuscript, audio files, a huge bibliography and much more.
http://www.paddletrips.net/beowulf/
Beowulf in Hypertext
Beowulf in Hypertext presents the epic poem Beowulf in Old and Modern English, a search function, quizzes, links and much related material.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/%7Ebeowulf/
The Electronic Beowulf
The Electronic Beowulf is the manual to the state-of-the-art study guide Electronic Beowulf 3.0 DVD. It offers some free information on the Beowulf manuscripts, links and more.
http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ (the Electronic Beowulf manual)
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo8922014.html (page for DVD purchase)
Beowulf - Online Corpus of Old English Poetry
A fully glossed and annotated online version of Beowulf. The glossary opens in a separate frame. Ideal for everybody wishing to work with and translate Beowulf.
http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/ASPR/Beowfram.htm
West-Saxon Gospels
Anglo-Saxon versions of the Bible
Some articles, a small bibliography, and further links about the Anglo-Saxon versions of the bible.
http://www.bible-researcher.com/anglo-saxon.html
Old English Dictionaries
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language, using twenty-first century technology. It has published letters A-G and offers various paid and free services, such as the "word of the week" or the "variant phrase search".
http://tir.doe.utoronto.ca/index.html (homepage)
http://tir.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/wofw.html (word of the week)
http://tir.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/pub/web-corpus.html (webcorpus, paid)
http://tir.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/tools/varphrase.html (variant phrase searches)
Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
The digital edition of the bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary offers an easy-to-use search function for Old English to Moder English word translations. You can also download the dictionary directly to your PC.
http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/ (homepage)
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/app/downloads.htm (download page)
Gerhard Köbler's Altenglisches Wörterbuch
A comprehensive Old English to Modern German dictionary, now in its third edition. It includes reconstructed but unattested Old English words, references to scholarly articles, Proto-Indo-European reconstructions, Latin bases for Old English glosses and more.
http://www.koeblergerhard.de/aewbhinw.html
Clark Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
John R. Clark Hall's classic A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1916) online. Each page of the original is available as HTML, PNG, and TIFF files.
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_clarkhall_about.html
The Old English Aerobics Glossary
The Old English Aerobics glossary is a very convenient tool that allows searches for about 4,600 high frequency words by headword, attested form, or definition. Furthermore, it is also possible to perform advanced searches on the glossary like partial words or letters in a particular positions.
glossary.oldenglishaerobics.net
Thesaurus of Old English (TOE)
TOE Online is an electronic version of the second edition of A Thesaurus of Old English, first published by King’s College London in 1995. Old and Modern English words can be searched for in five different modes.
https://oldenglishthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/
Old English Corpora
Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (OCOEP)
The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry, hosted but the University of Calgary, aims at publishing all all known Old English poems and poetic lines in bare-bones editions with clickable glosses.
www.oepoetry.ca
ASChart
ASChart is an on-line publication of charters written in Anglo-Saxon England before A.D. 900. It allows users quick and easy access to a wealth of web-based infomation about Anglo-Saxon charters and history.
https://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk/
Dictionary of Old English corpus (DOE corpus)
The Dictionary of Old English corpus offers the most comprehensive electronic corpus of Old English texts in the world. Individuals can now purchase a license for online or CD searches. Some services are offered for free, such as variant phrase searches or a complete list of all text editions used for the compilation of the corpus.
https://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doecorpus/ (homepage of webcorpus, paid)
http://tir.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/index.html#varphrase (variant phrase searches)
https://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/#listoftexts (list of all texts)
Early English Laws
The Early English Laws project collects, re-edits, critiques and translates all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215.
http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/
The Electronic Sawyer
The Electronic Sawyer presents in searchable and browsable form a revised, updated, and expanded version of Peter Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters: an Annotated List and Bibliography (1968).
http://www.esawyer.org.uk/
Old English Literature
Overview
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The online version of the Cambridge companion to English literature contains detailed and insightful descriptions of Old English texts. There are chapters on various aspects of early English literature, including poetry, runes, manuscripts, Latin writing in England, early and late Old English, Middle English and comprehensive bibliographies for the respective chapters.
http://www.bartleby.com/211/index.html
Old English Projects
Nerthus - an online lexical database of Old English
Nerthus is a lexical database of Old English constructed by the University of La Rioja. It includes a word list of about 30,000 lemmata and connections between words that share a common morphological base.
http://www.nerthusproject.com (Project homepage)
Survey of Anglo-Saxon Plant Names
The Survey of Anglo-Saxon Plant Names (ASPNS) is a research project at the Institute for the Historical Study of Language (IHSL), based in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, U.K. The aim of the Survey is to study the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, in whatever medium they survive (e.g. manuscripts, inscriptions etc.), and from whatever language they originate. ASPNS offers news, an annual progress report, a Latin Plant-Name Associations Database and an exhaustive bibliography.
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/ihsl/projects/plants.htm/
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century. It is based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, Domesday Book and coins. The database can be searched for texts, persons, events, locationans and much more.
http://www.pase.ac.uk/index.html
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