Anglo-Saxon Grammar Revision
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highlyeccentricEeep, I have turned into a waitressing zombie and utterly failed to do any Anglo-Saxon for the last month and a bit. Clearly, I *need* some people to band together and prod me into studying, and the Goblin has failed utterly in this role.
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pathawi, putalis2, goblinpaladin, anyone else? The plan, such as it is, is to work through Peter Baker's Online Introduction to Anglo-Saxon. It has a grammar book, selected texts and grammar exercises. It's designed for raw beginners, but I for one know it's high time i actually learnt some verb conjugations.
To begin with, a list of online resources:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/
- download the Junicode font package, if you don't already have it, since for some reason most Anglo-Saxon stuff on the net uses it (including my blog, i might point out).
Also, observe the Electronic Introduction to Old English, the Anthology, and Old English AErobics.
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html
- Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon dictionary, a bit old and not the most student-friendly, but definitely the most comprehensive AS dictionary currently available, is now available as a searchable java applet. The Germanic Lexicon Project kick arse.
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook2007/
Michael Drout also has a grammar book up, which has simpler explanations (although an aggravating tendancy not to talk about nouns in terms of gender), grammar and vocab exercises, sound bites, and blank paradigm tables.
While we're at it, Drout's Anglo-Saxon Aloud is awesome. One day the Goblin and I will convince Alex Jones to let us record him and upload it, and that will be MORE awesome, but for now, Drout is The Man.
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/courses/handouts/magic.html
this is Baker's MAGIC SHEET with all the important OE inflections on it. Never leave home without it.
So. How do you guys want to go about this? Do you want to do just grammar, or grammar and translation, or what?
pathawi, putalis2, goblinpaladin, anyone else? The plan, such as it is, is to work through Peter Baker's Online Introduction to Anglo-Saxon. It has a grammar book, selected texts and grammar exercises. It's designed for raw beginners, but I for one know it's high time i actually learnt some verb conjugations.To begin with, a list of online resources:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/
- download the Junicode font package, if you don't already have it, since for some reason most Anglo-Saxon stuff on the net uses it (including my blog, i might point out).
Also, observe the Electronic Introduction to Old English, the Anthology, and Old English AErobics.
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html
- Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon dictionary, a bit old and not the most student-friendly, but definitely the most comprehensive AS dictionary currently available, is now available as a searchable java applet. The Germanic Lexicon Project kick arse.
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook2007/
Michael Drout also has a grammar book up, which has simpler explanations (although an aggravating tendancy not to talk about nouns in terms of gender), grammar and vocab exercises, sound bites, and blank paradigm tables.
While we're at it, Drout's Anglo-Saxon Aloud is awesome. One day the Goblin and I will convince Alex Jones to let us record him and upload it, and that will be MORE awesome, but for now, Drout is The Man.
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/courses/handouts/magic.html
this is Baker's MAGIC SHEET with all the important OE inflections on it. Never leave home without it.
So. How do you guys want to go about this? Do you want to do just grammar, or grammar and translation, or what?