The Language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
- Describes the survival of Old English and Old Norse words in modern English. Includes illustrations.
- http://www.regia.org/languag.htm

Old English Metrics
- An explanation of alliteration and metrical patterns (Sievers' five types) in Old English poetry. By Mary K. Savelli.
- http://www.dnaco.net/%7esirbill/OldEnglishMetrics.html

Reading Old English Manuscripts
- Provides essential information for reading Old English manuscripts as opposed to the transcriptions used in edited texts. Covers the Old English alphabet, manuscript abbreviations, punctuation, capitalization, word and line divisions, and errors and corre
- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/mss.html

Poetic Style in Old English
- Explains the stylistic characteristics of Old English poems, including a vocabulary found only in poems, the use of variation in poetic sentences, and the formulaic nature of poetic phrases and themes. By Peter Baker.
- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/postyle.html

Meter in Old English Poetry
- Describes the use of alliteration in Old English poems and the rhythmic patterns employed in the individual lines of these poems. By Peter Baker.
- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/pometer.html

The Grammar of Old English Poetry
- Describes the features of grammar in Old English poetry that distinguish it from the grammar of prose. Covers inflections, syntax, and word order. By Peter Baker.
- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/pogrammar.html

The Anglo-Saxons and Their Language
- Explains who the Anglo-Saxons were, where their language came from, and what their language was like. Also describes the relationship of Old English to other Germanic languages and to modern English. By Peter Baker.
- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/genintro.html

Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer
- Studies the development of Old English and Middle English. Covers grammar, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and dialects.
- http://www.bartleby.com/211/1901.html

The Prosody of Old and Middle English
- Explains the poetic principles and techniques that underlie all Old English poetry. Also covers the transition from Old English to Middle English poetic forms, foreign influences on Middle English poetry, and the alliterative revival of the 14th century.
- http://www.bartleby.com/211/1801.html

Runes and Manuscripts
- Studies the development of the alphabet and writing in Anglo-Saxon England. Topics include: the national Germanic alphabet (runes), the use of runes in literature, the influence of the Roman and Irish alphabets on the English hand, the tools of book-makin
- http://www.bartleby.com/211/0201.html

ASPR Search Engine
- This online tool finds all occurrences of a specified word or phrase in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (ASPR), which contain the complete body of Old English poetry.
- http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~bede/search.html

Changes in the English Language: a Comparison of Old, Middle, and Modern English
- For each verse of Luke 2:1-19, displays an Old English, Middle English, and Modern English version of the verse.
- http://www.bible-researcher.com/engchange.html

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
- Richly illustrated online seminar by Michelle Brown. Sessions include: Anglo-Saxon England and the Book, Reading and Writing the Manuscripts, Spiritual and Secular Worlds, Materials and Techniques, and Illustration and Ornament.
- http://www.fathom.com/course/10701049/index.html

The Runic Alphabet
- Shows the entire set of Anglo-Saxon runic symbols. Includes the name of each symbol and the equivalent English letter for that symbol.
- http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/runes.html

Junicode Font Page
- Junicode is a font for medievalists created by Peter Baker. If a computer is unable to display certain characters that can appear in online Old English texts, the Junicode font supplies the needed characters. Site describes the font and includes a link to
- http://junicode.sourceforge.net/

Medieval Writing: Literate English
- Study of the history of written English, with emphasis on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the culture that produced them. Includes numerous illustrations and photos.
- http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/whyread/english.htm

Runes in Anglo-Saxon England
- A summary of how the Anglo-Saxons used runes in art, literature, and daily life.
- http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~mathelie/mathiii2.html#runes

Old English Verb Conjugator
- Online tool that accepts the infinitive form of an Old English verb as input and displays the complete conjugation of that verb as output. Also summarizes Old English verb groups and classes.
- http://www.verbix.com/languages/oldenglish.shtml

Today in Old English
- Displays the current day, date, and time in Old English.
- http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~ballc/cgi-bin/todaeg.cgi

Tricks for Translating Old English
- Gives tips for making the translation of Old English easier. These tricks involve an understanding of certain grammatical constructions that are very common in Old English: modal plus infinitive, partitive genitive, locative dative, and the "ge"
- http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook2005/Tricks.html

A Brief History of Old English
- Explains how political and cultural events changed the Anglo-Saxon language into the English spoken today. By Michael Drout.
- http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook2005/HistoryOfOE.html

About Old English
- Answers the questions: What is old English, Why learn Old English, and Why is Old English so different from modern English. By Murray McGillivray
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/faq.htm

The Origins of Old English
- Covers the origins of Old English words, including West Germanic, Latin, Scandinavian, and Celtic borrowings. Also provides a diagram of the family tree of the Germanic languages, which shows all the stages of descent from Proto-Germanic to modern English
- http://lonestar.texas.net/~jebbo/learn-oe/origins.htm

Old English Manuscripts Database
- Gives descriptive information for each of the approximately 200 Old English manuscripts containing a significant amount of Anglo-Saxon. Includes a brief introduction to Old English manuscripts.
- http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/mss/oe/oldeng.html

Case in Old English
- Robert Stevick's study of case and other grammatical elements of Old English.
- http://faculty.washington.edu/stevickr/graphotactics/case_OE.html

Old English Compared to Modern English
- Merriam-Webster Online article uses a passage from Aelfric's Homily on St. Gregory to show the similarities and differences between Old English and Modern English. Also compares Middle English to Modern English and describes the Germanic roots of Old Engl
- http://www.m-w.com/help/faq/history.htm

Old English Syntax: Some Literary Illustrations
- Shows how selected literary texts exemplify characteristic features of Old English syntax.
- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/OESyntaxPoeticOverhead.htm

Old English Alphabet
- Shows the form and pronunciation of each letter in the Old English alphabet. Includes a sample text from a manuscript, a transcription of this text, and a modern English translation.
- http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm

Old English Language
- Introduction to Old English from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Covers Germanic origins; Latin, Norse, and Celtic influence; dialects, phonology, and orthography; and grammar.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact
- Studies the position of the verb in Old English word order and shows the influence of this “V2” (verb-second) syntax on the word order of Middle English dialects.
- http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/omev2-html/omev2-html.html

Building Blocks of Old English Poetry
- Explains alliteration and meter in Old English poetry.
- http://www.sp.uconn.edu/%7emwh95001/oepoetry.htm

Old English Graphotactics
- A site dedicated to editions of Old English texts that include the graphotactics of original manuscripts and to studies of these texts. Graphotactics concerns the incidence and measure of spacings between strings of written symbols of a text. In such text
- http://faculty.washington.edu/stevickr/graphotactics/index.html

The Sounds of Old English
- Robert D. Stevick's account of the Old English sound system. Includes exercises.
- http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/sounds/sounds.html

Englisc Composition Listserv
- An electronic discussion group dedicated to writing and communicating in Old English. Includes event announcements and links.
- http://www.rochester.edu/englisc/