Old English Online

Lessons

0. Introduction to Old English
1. Beowulf: Prologue
2. Bede's Account of the Poet Caedmon
3. Cynewulf and Cyneheard
4. Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan
5. Alfred's Wars with the Danes
6. The Battle of Maldon
7. Genesis A: the Flood
8. The Wanderer
9. The Seafarer
10. Beowulf: the Funeral

Grammar Points

• 1. The Alphabet and Sound System.
• 2. Verb Inflection.
• 3. The Preterite System of Verbs.
• 4. The Anomalous Verb wesan.
• 5. Weak Verbs in Class I.
• 6. Personal Pronouns.
• 7. Contractions with ne 'not'.
• 8. Prepositions.
• 9. Weak Verbs in Class II.
• 10. Strong Verbs in Class I.
• 11. The Anomalous Verb willan.
• 12. Weak Verbs in Class III.
• 13. Strong Verbs in Class II.
• 14. Strong Verbs in Class III.
• 15. Preterite-Present Verbs in Class III.
• 16. The Anomalous Verb bēon.
• 17. The Anomalous Verb eom/is.
• 18. Strong Verbs in Class IV.
• 19. Preterite-Present Verbs in Class IV.
• 20. Strong Verbs in Class V.
• 21. Definite/Demonstrative Articles/Pronouns.
• 22. The Numerals.
• 23. Preterite-Present Verbs in Class V.
• 24. Strong Verbs in Class VI.
• 25. Strong Verbs in Class VII.
• 26. The Anomalous Verb gān.
• 27. Old English, a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language.
• 28. Word Order in Clauses with Compound Verbs.
• 29. The Prefix ge- Indicating Completed Action.
• 30. Noun Inflection.
• 31. The Root Nouns.
• 32. The a-stem Strong Nouns.
• 33. The o-stem Strong Nouns.
• 34. The i-stem Strong Nouns.
• 35. The u-stem Strong Nouns.
• 36. The n-stem Weak Nouns.
• 37. Feminine Abstract Nouns in -u, -o.
• 38. The r-stem Nouns.
• 39. The nd-stem Nouns.
• 40. The er-stem Nouns.
• 41. The Anomalous Verb dōn.
• 42. Reflexive Pronouns.
• 43. Weak Adjective Declension.
• 44. Strong Adjective Declension.
• 45. Spelling Variation.
• 46. Texts.
• 47. Dictionaries.
• 48. Grammars.
• 49. Translations.
• 50. Histories.