Extra Reading John Hill, Chapter 1, The Narrative Pulse of Beowulf (free through UMass).

OE Language

VIDEOS: What is Old English?; Cases and Gender; Weak and Strong Nouns; Weak and Strong Adjectives; Weak and Strong Verbs.

You should memorize pronouns.

Case. Read case: (KA, review chapters; and OEA, nom., acc., dat., and gen.).

As you begin to memorize Old English words, start with closed-class words. Conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions, and articles are not numerous. Make a list using Sweet, Anglo-Saxon Primer (or one of the other on-line texts). You may want to make a chart for ease:

To which you can add ond, eac, þeah, etc.

PDF versions of most of the texts we translated last term are listed below:

• Genesis 3
• Caedmon's Hymn
• Ælfric's Colloquy
• The Dream of the Rood
• Wulf and Eadwacer
• Riddles a, c, and d.
• Riddles e, f, and g.
• The Wife's Lament
• The Wanderer
• The Battle of Maldon
• Judith
• Beowulf, lines 3156-3183.