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Re: Medieval English Feminine Names

by Pie

6/9/2011, 3:16 PM

I've probably still got my old textbooks somewhere. :) It's quite fun to learn - easier than Welsh! And you get to read Beowulf in the original. (And a lot of battles that bored me silly at the time, but I suspect I might be more interested in now.)

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- Llewella (penguiny7) +2

6/9/2011, 3:33 PM

I have the Canterbury Tales in Old English. It should be fairly easy to learn since you can understand a reasonable portion of it anyway without knowing much about it!

I'll have to look up a book that seems good to get and keep it for my birthday or Christmas list. I have always wanted to study Welsh, too, but hope maybe someday to get a CD-ROM for that.

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- Pie +1

6/9/2011, 3:56 PM

Chaucer is Middle English ;) This is Old English: http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html
- this has an overview if you still fancy it! http://www.jebbo.co.uk/learn-oe/contents.htm

- Llewella (nsi) (guest)

6/9/2011, 5:28 PM

Oh yes

Silly me. I knew that. :)

Thanks for that link! I will definitely check it out tomorrow.

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