06-06-2003, 11:35 PM | #1 |
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Old English
I've been wanting to learn some Old English for quite some time, not least for incorporation into my stories. I was wondering if anyone here knew a good site where I could find out about Old English, especially good word lists and naming rules?
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Do you know bicce? hehehehe
Or... blod?
Or...bitan?
These are Old English words you can find in your own dictionary. I do not know a site to learn the Old English though. |
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06-07-2003, 12:44 AM | #3 |
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You already informed us of "bicce". I was rather hoping from that that you were something of an OE expert but alas! it seems it is not so.
I found some web sites with word lists, but they aren't very all-encompassing. And I need to know how to put OE words together to make OE names, as well.
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No.. I have only picked up a few words from ... err... eheh...*nervous smile* ...reading the dictionary... oh, damn... I am now labeled a total geek... soon, people will be asking me to bite the heads off of chickens
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06-07-2003, 12:58 AM | #5 |
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Heads off chicken....
(Don't worry, I've certainly done that on occassion...)
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A 'geek' is actually the name given to a side show performer in a traveling circus. They performed different, odd, things such as biting the heads off of live chickens. |
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*huge obvious sigh of relief*
wow... ok... that is better. |
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i learnt a lot of my archaic from the legend of zelda
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06-07-2003, 11:29 AM | #10 |
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Here's a site that I have been enjoying for a while (I too want to learn Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and my goal is to read Beowulf in its original form one day!).
Ða Engliscan Gesiþas. They have sound files, and the beginning of a course, and lots of other cool tidbits. Have fun!
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06-07-2003, 11:55 AM | #11 |
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Here's another site I just found: Old English Language and Grammar
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06-07-2003, 06:07 PM | #12 |
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I seem to remember that Huan learned Old English, but I could be wrong. Perhaps you could try PMing him, to find out if he has any useful resources?
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Sounds like a plan.
Thanks for the links, Shadowfax. I'm sure they'll prove useful, as well.
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I read a translation of Beowulf one time that had old English on the left and modern English on the facing page, so you could compare the two. That was cool.
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06-08-2003, 04:28 PM | #15 |
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I did indeed learn Old English, but as I am technophobic, I would rather refer you to books than sites. The one to beat is Bright's Old English, which sadly is out of print, but you could look for it in libraries or order it from a bookstore or Amazon. For good practice, an Old-English edition of Beowulf is helpful (and entertaining, and very enlightening with regard to Professor Tolkien). Good editions of Beowulf: Klaeber, who declines to offer a translation but provides an excellent glossary with which you have to do it yourself (that's what we used in class), or C.L. Wrenn, who does offer a translation AND a glossary. There is also Beowulf: A Student Edition, which provides the original text and a glossary, but rather than giving a translation it's covered in notes to help you translate it yourself.
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Thanks for those book recommendations, Huan. I think I will be looking around for some of those during the summer.
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06-09-2003, 12:41 AM | #17 |
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Thanks, I'll investigate right away!
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we're reading shakespear in english
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06-09-2003, 04:04 PM | #19 |
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Read Sir Thomas Mallory's - Le Morte D'Arthur.......yer'll be spouting Old English like Mandorallen from the Belgariad books after that
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06-09-2003, 04:15 PM | #20 |
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Coney, I'm afraid Malory is nowhere near Old English. He's in fact several decades later than Chaucer, so he's kind of in this transitional area between Middle and Early Modern English.
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