LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Old English Alphabet
built 628 days ago
Most Anglo-Saxon manuscripts were written on vellum (Old English fell) made of calf skin. This was stretched, scraped smooth, whitened with chalk, cut into sheets, ruled with a stylus, and folded into quires of eight leaves (four sheets), or sixteen pages. After the scribes had done their work, the quires were sewn together and bound.
Source:
Three periods of Latin word input into Old English can be identified. The first occurred before any Saxon peoples migrated to England. The second commenced as Saxon peoples were converted to Christianity (~600 AD) and Latin priests then lived among them. The third period occurred immediately after the Norman Invasion of 1066. Old English was further modified as it moved away from the runic alphabet to the Latin alphabet.
Source:
Student attempts at speaking Old English are checked and reinforced immediately with the audio links. Also, these activities are designed as part of a larger GLC unit entitled Old English: Anglo Saxon Beginnings, and a full unit test may be found there which incorporates several multiple choice questions intended to evaluate understanding of these lessons.
Source:
The Electronic Beowulf is an image-based edition of Beowulf, the great Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Vitellius A. xv. In addition to digital images of the Beowulf Manuscript, Electronic Beowulf includes images of Cotton Vitellius A. xv, indispensable eighteenth-century transcriptions, copies of the 1815 first edition with early nineteenth-century collations of the manuscript, a comprehensive glossarial index, and a new edition and transcript, both with search facilities.
Source:
[U]nlike modern English, doubled consonants in Old English actually have a purpose, don't ignore them! A doubled consonant is held for two times as long as a regular one. This sounds odd; how can one hold a consonant? It's possible, the Finnish do it extensively. Think about how you pronounce two-word combos like 'pen knife', 'half fed', 'head dress', etc. How do you differentiate 'head dress' from 'head rest'?
Source:
In order to present some of the Old English characters HTML-codes were used. Most of the characters belong to the category "Latin", "Latin Extended B" and "Armenian". More information can be found at the site: use of html-codes . If you need different language-scripts at ONE PAGE use hexa-decimal unicodes: look at the font page for examples.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Old English Alphabet