Linguistics 411: Old English
Fall 2017
The goal of this course is to teach you to read Old English prose and to
introduce you to the grammar of Old English, the phonology, morphology and
syntax. The grammatical material will help you to learn the language but is
also interesting in its own right. There will be some discussion of the place
of Old English in the Germanic language family, both typologically and
historically.
Germanic Lexicon Project
An Old English keyboard layout for the Mac.
To install the layout, download and expand the zip file. Then copy the result into the Library/Keyboard Layouts in your home folder.
(If you can’t see a Library folder, press ⇧⌘G in the Finder and type ‘~/Library’ into the dialog box, then look for
the ‘Keyboard Layouts’ folder.) Then go into System Preferences and turn it on in the Keyboard → Input Sources panel.
You should then be able to select the Old English input method from the menu bar. The web page with the download link
contains instructions on which keys have been mapped to the Old English characters.
Caitlin Richter's Orm materials for Wednesday, 12/6
Two files to download:
Some notes for Caitlin's class:
- Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for the Ormulum.
- Don't spend more time on it than other translations for class.
- Use provided glossary and see notes on first page.
- Lots of inflection (noun, adjective, etc) is no longer present in the language
so don't necessarily bother looking too much up in your grammar.