Tag: Old English
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Resources for Early Medieval Language Learning
A historian of the early medieval period needs to wear many hats, and an understanding of contemporary languages is crucial. Many primary sources haven’t been translated to modern English and, where they have, questions of variable translation underly questions of interpretation. However, getting started in these language can be a tough task. I’m not a…
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Old English Poetry
The poetry of ‘Anglo-Saxon England’ holds an interesting middle-ground in public perception. On the one-hand Beowulf is perhaps the single most famous piece of ‘Anglo-Saxon’ cultural output, of any form. Tolkien famously translated it, as did Heaney, and there was that terrible movie in the 2000s that we try and forget… However, the sheer quantity…