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Does anyone have good resources for learning Old English? I have Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide to Old English" from a college course I took years ago but it'
by jgwil2 7y ago
Does anyone have good resources for learning Old English? I have Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide to Old English" from a college course I took years ago but it's a little old-fashioned and I've found it less than ideal for self-study. I have to imagine there are internet based resources that could help with the oral aspects as well.
- jhbadger 7y agoI like King Alfred's Grammar (https://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/gram/GrammarBook/KAGrammar.html https://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/gram/GrammarBook/KAGramm...). It's designed as an intro (and actually suggests Mitchell & Robinson as a followup) but it's well done. Not that much coverage of oral stuff, but unless you have a time machine you haven't told us about, that's not really the reason people study pre-modern languages.
- np_tedious 7y agoMy understanding is that aside from what can be inferred from meter / rhyme in poetry, nobody really knows pronunciation before a certain date. Is that correct? If so, what is "that date"?
- gumby 7y agoJust don't use his cookbook!
- mc32 7y agoNot sure, tbh, but you can poke around UToronto, they have some resources: https://www.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/index.html https://www.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/index.html Some discussion here (which is pasted from Reddit) https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/19421831/Resources-to-Learn-Old-English-and-news-of-a-NEW-OE-AS-sub-Reddit https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/19421831/Resources-to-Lea...
- 8bitsrule 7y agoThis (well-made!)page looks helpful (and points to 15 online references). https://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Old-English https://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Old-English