Posted: September 18, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, insular script, manuscripts, medieval studies, old english, palaeography, runes, students, study tips, Teaching, Tutorials |
Old English texts were copied in manuscripts by scribes. These scribes used an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet, but with some native additions and occasionally runes…
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Posted: September 18, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, grammar, linguistics, medieval studies, morphology, old english, students, study tips, syntax, Teaching, Tutorials |
Old English and Modern English can be deceptively similar from a syntactic point of view. In particular, word order frequently is the same in the two languages (though Old English is actually probably closer in some aspects of its word order to other Low German languages such as Dutch). This means that it is often possible to translate simple declarative sentences from Old English by simply looking up the meaning of each word in a dictionary…
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Posted: September 18, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, linguistics, old english, phonology, pronunciation, students, study tips, Teaching, Tutorials |
The sounds of Old English should not prove difficult, with a few exceptions, for speakers of Modern English. It can be hard at first to get used to some of the spelling conventions, such as the fact that all letters—including final
e—are pronounced; but on the whole Old English does not have many sounds that are not the same as in Modern English, and, in most cases, indicated by the same letters…
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Posted: July 20, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, Computers, history, kings, medieval studies, Research, students, study tips, Teaching, timelines, xml |
This contains a link to an experiment in constructing a timeline of the Anglo-Saxon period using
XML. It is very much a work in progress at the moment. The ultimate goal will be to have a synoptic oversight and index that will allow students to click on major events, persons, or cultural artefacts and then see how they fit in with other milestones.
At the moment, the chart only includes Kings. And even then still in fairly rough fashion.
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Posted: November 19, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, Computers, editorial studies, exercises, manuscript studies, palaeography, students, study tips, Teaching, textual studies, transcription, Tutorials, xml |
The following is a list of typographical conventions to use when transcribing medieval manuscripts in my classes.
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Posted: October 8, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, classical languages, exercises, grammar, latin, medieval studies, old english, students, study tips, Teaching, Tutorials |
So how should you study in Old English class? Here are some tips I’ve compiled from personal experience and asking other scholars of my generation who have studied ancient or medieval languages (e.g. Latin, Greek, Old English, Old Frisian, etc.).
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