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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 text

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• Conceptual Semantics and Grammatical Relations in Old English - A study of Old English from the viewpoint old english of germanic historical linguistics. Covers word order, theta roles, old english and word germanic formation. By Ruta Nagucka.
• Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer - Studies the development of Old English and Middle English. Covers english grammar, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and dialects.
• The Prosody of Old and Middle English - Explains the poetic principles and techniques that underlie all Old old english English poetry. Also covers the transition from Old English to old english Middle English poetic forms, foreign influences on Middle English poetry, old english and the alliterative revival of the 14th century.
• An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts - An 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.
• Changes in the English Language: a Comparison of Old, Middle, and Modern English - For each verse of Luke 2:1-19, displays an english Old English, Middle English, and Modern English version english of the verse.
• Old English Language - Introduction to Old English from the Wikipedia online old english encyclopedia. Covers Germanic origins; Latin, Norse, and Celtic old english influence; dialects, phonology, and orthography; and grammar.
• The Anglo-Saxons and Their Language - Explains who the Anglo-Saxons were, where their language germanic came from, germanic and what their language was like. germanic Also describes the relationship germanic of Old English to germanic other Germanic languages and to modern germanic English. By germanic Peter Baker.
• About Old English - Answers the questions: What is old English, Why germanic learn Old germanic English, and Why is Old English germanic so different from modern germanic English. By Murray McGillivray
• The Grammar of Old English Poetry - Describes the features of grammar in Old English english poetry that old english distinguish it from the grammar of english prose. Covers inflections, syntax, old english and word order. By english Peter Baker.
• Reading Old English Manuscripts - Provides essential information for reading Old English manuscripts as opposed english to the transcriptions used in edited texts. Covers the Old english English alphabet, manuscript abbreviations, punctuation, capitalization, word and line divisions, english and errors and corre
• The MANCASS C11 Database - A tool for studying writing and spelling in eleventh century english manuscripts. Helps scholars to determine whether a standard form of english written English existed in the eleventh century.
• Junicode Font Page - Junicode is a font for medievalists created by old english Peter old english Baker. If a computer is unable to old english display certain old english characters that can appear in online old english Old English texts, old english the Junicode font supplies the old english needed characters. Site describes old english the font and includes old english a link to
• 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 text
• Old English Alphabet - Shows the form and pronunciation of each letter germanic in the germanic Old English alphabet. Includes a sample germanic text from a manuscript, germanic a transcription of this germanic text, and a modern English germanic translation. Also germanic shows the form, name, and equivalent English letter germanic germanic for each rune
• Meter in Old English Poetry - Describes the use of alliteration in Old English old english poems english and the rhythmic patterns employed in the old english individual lines english of these poems. By Peter Baker.
• Old English Syntax: Some Literary Illustrations - Shows how selected literary texts exemplify characteristic features germanic of Old English syntax.
• Poetic Style in Old English - Explains the stylistic characteristics of Old English poems, english including a germanic vocabulary found only in poems, the english use of variation in germanic poetic sentences, and the english formulaic nature of poetic phrases and germanic themes. By english Peter Baker.
• Old English Links - Includes links to books and articles on Old English language old english topics.
• 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.
• Old English Verb Conjugator - Online tool that accepts the infinitive form of old english an old english Old English verb as input and displays old english the complete old english conjugation of that verb as output. old english Also summarizes Old old english English verb groups and classes.
• The Language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings - Describes the survival of Old English and Old Norse words in modern English. Includes illustrations.
• The Sounds of Old English - Robert D. Stevick\\'s account of the Old English sound system. Includes exercises.
• Estimating Probabilities and Alliteration Frequencies in Old English Verse - Studies various kinds of alliteration rates for Old English poetry and shows how non-primary alliteration sometimes plays a functional and artistic role in Old English verse. By Thomas A. Bredehoft.
• Case in Old English - Robert Stevick\\'s study of case and other grammatical germanic elements of Old English.
• Old English Compared to Modern English - Merriam-Webster Online article uses a passage from Aelfric\\'s germanic Homily on germanic St. Gregory to show the similarities germanic and differences between Old germanic English and Modern English. germanic Also compares Middle English to Modern germanic English and germanic describes the Germanic roots of Old Engl
• History of the English Language Lectures - Includes several videos, with narration, on Old English germanic language topics. old english By Edwin Duncan.
• Runes and Manuscripts - Studies the development of the alphabet and writing germanic in Anglo-Saxon english England. Topics include: the national Germanic germanic alphabet (runes), the use english of runes in literature, germanic the influence of the Roman and english Irish alphabets germanic on the English hand, the tools of book-makin
• Tricks for Translating Old English - Gives tips for making the translation of Old English easier. germanic These tricks involve an understanding of certain grammatical constructions that germanic are very common in Old English: modal plus infinitive, partitive germanic genitive, locative dative, and the "ge"
• Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact - Studies the position of the verb in Old germanic English word order and shows the influence of germanic this “V2” (verb-second) syntax on the word order germanic of Middle English dialects.
• Old English Manuscripts Database - Gives descriptive information for each of the approximately english 200 Old English manuscripts containing a significant amount english of Anglo-Saxon. Includes a brief introduction to Old english English manuscripts.
• The Runic Alphabet - Shows the entire set of Anglo-Saxon runic symbols. old english Includes english the name of each symbol and the old english equivalent English english letter for that symbol.
• Medieval Writing: Literate English - Study of the history of written English, with old english emphasis germanic on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the culture that old english produced them. germanic Includes numerous illustrations and photos.
• A Brief History of Old English - Explains how political and cultural events changed the english Anglo-Saxon language germanic into the English spoken today. By english Michael Drout.
• Englisc Composition Listserv - An electronic discussion group dedicated to writing and english communicating in english Old English. Includes event announcements and english links.
• Runes in Anglo-Saxon England - A summary of how the Anglo-Saxons used runes in art, old english literature, and daily life.
• The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Different Stages of English - Gives Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, old english and germanic Modern English versions of Luke 15:11-32 and old english allows side-by-side germanic comparisons of different versions. Includes audio old english of verses 11-21 germanic in each version.

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