/OldEnglish

Website for aggregating and sharing Old English language learning resources

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Old English Resources

[this list is currently being moved to englisc.info]

Just a collection of resources and thoughts

How this website works

All the code is hosted here on github at https://github.com/aleitner/OldEnglish The website URL is http://englisc.info/

I'm very cheap so I am using github's hosting service to put the code onto the web for free. I also decided to use their issue system as a backend for the blogs. Blog front end: http://englisc.info/news.html Blog back end: https://github.com/aleitner/OldEnglish/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Anews Essentially any issue created by us with the news tag will move to the /news.html page for the frontend. This is however limited to 60 views per hour per user since I am cheap and not spending any money.

To post an issue just go to the backend and create a new issue with the news label.

Old Grammar Textbooks

Siever's Old English Grammar - lists dialectal forms; one of the very few books to do so

Old English Grammar, 3rd ed. 1925 by Wright & Wright

A First Book In Old English, 3rd ed. 1921 by Cook

An Old English Grammar, 2nd ed. 1957 by Quirk and Wrenn

An Old English Grammar, 1922 by Wardale. The 1922 edition is the only one, though it has been reprinted many times.

An Introduction to Old English, 1955 by Brook

The Elements of Old English, 10th ed. 1955

Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and Reader

Carpenter's Old English Grammar

Historical and Comparative Grammars (need links)

Deutsche Grammatik by Grimm

A Comparative Grammar of the Teutonic Language, 1870 by Helfenstein

A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1888 by March

Comparative Germanic Grammar, 1939 by Prokosch

Germanische Sprachwissenschaft bI-III by Krahe and Meid, 1960s

Early Germanic Grammar by Voyles

A Linguistic History of English v1: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, 2nd ed. 2017 by Ringe

A Linguistic History of English v2: the Development of Old English, 2014 by Ringe and Taylor

A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages, 2018 by Fulk

West Germanic Derivation, Inflection and Compounding, 1974 by Voyles

Old English and its Closest Relatives by Robinson

Old English and the Continental Germanic Languages by Nielsen

A Glottometric Sub-grouping of the Early Germanic Languages, 2018 by Agee

Notes on the Development of the Principal Sounds of Indo-European through Proto-Germanic and West Germanic in Old English, 1951 by Scargill

Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion, 1994 by Lass

Syntax (needs links)

Old English Syntax, 1985 in 2 volumes, by Mitchell

Syntax, Chapter 5 of A Guide to Old English, by Mitchell

Syntax, Chapter 8 of A Linguistic History of English vol. 2: The Development of Old English, 2014 by Taylor

Syntax, Chapter 4 of The Cambridge History of English vol. 1, 1992 by Traugott

Old English Syntax: A Handbook, 1983 by McLaughlin

Old English Syntax and Style, 1982 by Yerkes

Old English Syntax and Style, 1940 by Andrews

The Development of Word Order Patters in Old English, 1983 by Bean

Syntax of West Germanic: The Syntax of Old English and Old High German by Graeme & Bernhardt, 2002

The Influence of Text Type on Word Order of Old Germanic Languages A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Old English and Old High German by Anna Cichosz, 2010

Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations by Anna Cichosz, 2016

Meter & Poetry (needs links)

A Unified Account of the Old English Metrical line, 2017 by Cooper

Beowulf and Old Germanic Meter

Old English Meter: An Introduction, by Terasawa

A Comparative Study of Old English Meter

Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory, 1987 by Russom

Early English Meter, 2005 by Bredehoft

The Composition of Old English Poetry, 1997 by Momma

A History of Old English Meter, 1992 by Fulk

A Linguistic Approach to the Poetics of Old English, 2007 by Beechy

The Poetics of Old English, 2010 by Beechy

Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse, 1997 by Acker

Runes

An Introduction to English Runes, 2nd ed. 2006 by Page

Rudiments of Runelore, 3rd ed. 1995 by Pollington

Runes, 2015 by Findell

Runes, 1989 by Elliot

Youtube Channels

Simon Roper

Online Courses

Old English Online Grammar Guide

Elementary Old English WIP

ENGL 6011/7011 Fall 2020 Old English

The Historical Grammar of the Old English Language

Corpus and Other Texts

The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (OCOEP)

Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (About Page | Text) - all of the poems in a single webpage

Old English Literature: A Hypertext Coursepack - Collection of Old English Texts

Readers (some need links)

Old English Reader - "a site to support Murray McGillivray's Old English Reader". This site has several OE texts with a convenient glossary in a separate scroll box on the same page

An Anglo-Saxon Reader, 3rd ed. 1913 (online), 4th ed. (scans). AKA "Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader".

An Anglo-Saxon Reader, 1919 by Wyatt

The Threshold of Anglo-Saxon, 2nd ed. 1935 by Wyatt

Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader pt 1

Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader pt 2

Seven Old English Poems by Pope

Bible Texts

Wessex Gospels:

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Online version of Mark & Luke

Online version of the wessex gospels - the format seems easier to use, but the edition is probably from the mid 1800s and doesn't have vowel length.

West Saxon/Northumbrian/Vulgate-with-gloss Parallel

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John (alternate link desired)

Other Bible Texts

Translation of the Psalms, Genesis, Exodus, & Daniel into OE poetry - So some of it is more like a paraphrase. This site also has all the rest of the Old English poetry too and is listed again below.

a prose translation of the first 50 Psalms

Old English Hexateuch - Original manuscript. It has tons of cool illustrations

Old English Heptateuch (online | pdf)

Manuscripts

Manuscripts Medievaux - this page contains all of the site's Old English manuscripts (though it has many others)

Exeter Book

Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum (MS Kk.3.18) - Old English Translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum (History of the English People)

Literature

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature

The Old English Translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its Historical and Cultural Context

History & Culture

History

The Anglo-Saxon World

The Viking Wars

Culture

Stephen Pollington's books