My Old English resources

These are resources for Old English on my site.

My stuff

• HTML version of Henry Sweet's A Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (1896). I've added various search features — see the About page.
• HTML version of Henry Sweet's A First Steps in Old English (1897).
  I've used HTML links to make it easier to navigate between the text, grammar, and notes — see the About page.
• "The Ruin". A word-by-word and line-by-line breakdown of the elegaic poem. (See the disclaimer under the notes.) Inspired by similar texts on the OE Aerobics Anthology page.
• OE verbs practice. A flashcard-like resource for practicing the inflections of the most common Old English verbs.
• Old English Warfare-Word Page. For the aspiring OE poet. :) Randomly puts together Old English roots to create compounds pertaining to war.
• An Old English Verse Forms cheat sheet in PDF format. There are two layouts: a vertical version (also in A4 size) and a flipped version (also in A4 size). These are of course inspired by Paul Baker's Magic Sheet of Old English Inflections. :)
• Wordgespan Rædelsas (Crosswords) in Old English! Using vocabulary and based on texts that I hope are mostly familiar to students.

  Note! If you do have a Google/Gmail account and are logged in, you can use the Google Doc links to make your own copy that you can fill in. If you do not have a Google/Gmail account, use the PDF files (non-interactive):

  • #1: "Saga hwā ic eom" Google Doc, PDF
  • #2: "Dēorcynn" Google Doc, PDF
  • #3: "Heregeatwa" Google Doc, PDF
• Miscellaneous Google Docs. A collection of shared Google Docs with notes about Old English grammar and vocabulary. NB: All are works in progress and some are still just outlines. Anyone should be able to leave comments for additions or corrections. Contact me if you want better edit access or otherwise have thoughts.
  • OE grammar terms. Terms for grammar and other language-study concepts.
  • OE numbers. Numbers in Old English.
  • OE prepositions. OE prepositions and the cases they take.
  • OE relative pronouns. Various ways that Old English forms (marks) relative clauses.
  • OE time expressions. Expressions like "today" and "long ago".
  • OE phrases. Old English equivalents of everyday phrases like "Hello" and "How are you".

Other stuff

• Old English Computer Glossary. Fun. It would be great to update this!
• Copy of the glossary from Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Taken from another site; I cleaned up the formatting a bit for readbility. Original linked at the top.