We meet M 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm in SC W211
WEEK
5 OE Language
M 20 Feb.
W 22 Feb. OE Language
- Read this: Orrin Robinson, Old English and its Closest Relatives, chapter 6 ("Old English"), pp. 136 to 175.
- Read if you like King Alfred's Grammar (free) up to and including Chapter Five (that means all the introductory material, too).
- Read if you like Donald Bullough on Alcuin. Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation, Part Two, Chapter One only. [Free through UMass][Link to reading]
- Browse the Lindisfarne Gospels: one of the most beautiful books ever made.
DUE FRIDAY: 300-word paper on Old English philology.
Notes:
Here is a 3-D model of a fifth-century Anglo-Saxon cremation urn with the earlierst known Old English. It is inscribed on the urn in Runes. A good history of Anglo-Saxon England is P. H. Sawyer, From Roman Britain to Norman England [Free through UMass]
Here is a brief article on the origin myth of the Merovingians, who preceded the Carolingians as kings of Frankia (France).
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Academic
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LINKS.
UMass Library
Google Books
Search
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Old English
Newsletter Bib
Anglo-Saxon
Bibliography
Germanic
Lexicon Project
Bosworth-Toller
(partial)
The
Labyrinth
Medieval
Sourcebook
Norse Saga Net
Anglo-Saxon
Charters
Siever's
Heliand
Bible (Douay-Rheims)
Dumézil, Norse Gods
Klaeber, Beowulf
Manuscripts
of St. Gall
ISAS
Old English at UVa
Viking Ship Museum
Warning! Jingoistic anti-Roman revisionism, but nevertheless informative:
VIDEO: The Ancient Celts
VIDEO: The Goths
VIDEO: The Barbarian Tribes |