This website is designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner. It will introduce you, topic by topic, to the structure and sound of the Old English …

An online educational resource for learning Old English

An online educational resource for learning Old English

O ld English Online is a website designed to help users learn to read Old English. It was funded by University College Cork through the National Forum’s 'Developing Disciplinary Excellence in …

O ld English letters are usually pronounced the same way we pronounce them in modern English, however, below you will find the three Old English letters no longer used in modern English.

Modern English derives mostly from the Anglian dialect, however, it is the West Saxon dialect of Old English which is commonly taught. This is because, under the rule of King Alfred, Wessex survived …

It is more helpful to think in terms of sounds rather than letters when considering the construction of Old English words. While long and short vowels are not marked in manuscripts, sound changes are not …

In Old English, the infinitive generally ends in 'an': hieran - to hear, feran - to go, lufian - to love. Verbs conjugate through a mixture of inflectional suffixes or stem-modifications, which will be explained in …

For example, we might recognise the term forberan (meaning forbear, or endure), but Old English also has ' geberan - to bring forth/support ', ' aberan - to endure or to bear away ', and ' forþberan - to …

Old English does not generally have an indefinite article (what would be the modern English ‘a’ or 'an'), though sum — some and an — one, occasionally function in this role.