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A series of recordings taken from various CDs produced by The Chaucer Studio. The Chaucer Studio has an extensive range of recordings across medieval literature and has a full catalogue and online ordering at…

'Deor' read aloud at West Stow, with accompaniment on Anglo-Saxon lyre.

Traditionally, Old English grammars and manuals have focused too much on morphology and phonology, leaving quite aside the study of syntax (word order). Even today, very few publications contain exercises specifically designed to practise Old English…

This is a little tool for beginners to help them find the infinitive of OE verbs in a dictionary or glossary from inflected forms. The diagram is a very basic thing and therefore does not account for the many exceptions in the inflexion of OE verbs…

AN00227879_001_l. Iron seax, with a straight cutting edge and sharply angled back, the tang offset from the blade. One face of the blade was inset with eight decorative panels, but two are now missing. They are separated from each other by short,…

A short animated video clip presenting some basic phrases in Old English relating to the family. I hope to create more of these as time allows. Leofwin and his family are based on the characters of a book teaching everyday Old English as a living…

This project aims to explore aspects of Anglo-Saxon language and culture through the study of Old English vocabulary arranged in semantic categories. It was supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre

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A series of web pages based around using the Thesaurus of Old English for teaching purposes. The Thesaurus is at: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/
© University of Glasgow, and these pages were put together by Carole Biggam, Robyn…

In the early stages of his subcreation, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a number of new texts in Old English, in which he described the creation of the world in the Elder Days. This is my own calligraphic interpretation of one of these texts, which I made in…