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Old English Alphabet: Electronic Beowulf
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For those of you who are fans of the English language, there are ways to get closer to its roots by studying Old English... known as Anglo-Saxon. With the right resources and some hard work, you can learn it well enough to read Beowulf in the original, write poetry like the Anglo-Saxon bards and impress any medievalists you happen to know.
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The "Beowulf in Cyberspace" website is an online edition of the Old English epic poem Beowulf. A sophisticated and multimedia project, Beowulf on Steorarume contains a fully annotated text of Beowulf, along with new modern English and German translations of the poem. The editor, Benjamin Slade... provides other relevant Old English texts such as: the Finnsburh Fragment; Waldere; Deor, and Charm Against a Sudden Stitch, for the purposes of contextualisation. Each section of the poem can be heard on an audio recording, and some sections also feature images. There are explanatory and background materials, as well as links to off-site resources.
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The Middle English language evolved when many Old English words were dropped and French words were introduced into its vocabulary. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written during this time. Unlike Beowulf, it is more comprehensible to English speakers today.
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The forthcoming CD edition includes full-color digital images of every folio in British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv, the manuscript which includes Beowulf and several of other Old English texts. The CD ... includes several important ancillary documents, including digital images of two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the poem and two nineteenth-century collations of the manuscript with the first printed edition of Beowulf. These images, along with a new edition of the poem, a translation, glossary, and hundreds of fiber-optic backlit images of damaged portions of the manuscript, provide users with unprecedented access to the Beowulfmanuscript.
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This is the website of Forgotten Ground Regained - a site devoted to alliterative verse in Old English, Middle English, modern English. Forgotten Ground Regained contains translations, original texts, contemporary poetry written in alliterative styles, resources, commentaries, and links to related material. Perhaps the most interesting part of Forgotten Ground Regained is the editor's guide to alliterative poetry. Written in an engaging (yet informed) manner, the introduction explains the fundamental techniques of alliterative verse (including stress and meter), provides technical commentaries on excerpts of well-known texts, such as Beowulf, and offers advice for those wishing to write in these forms.
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For writing Old English people used Armenian characters. Look at: www.jagular.com about beowulf. The Armenian characters OR characters that seem to be based upon Armenian characters are: , , , , , and .
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