Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...

Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to “What” or “Listen now.” Old English is largely Germanic, ...

MIP: Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for another coffee break with MIP. Our guest today is Colin Ireland, Resident Director, Emeritus, of Arcadia University, and we'll be talking about ...

About fourteen hundred years ago, mourners buried a man in what archaeologists have now labeled “Grave 32” in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Snape, in Suffolk. He was laid out carefully and respectfully, ...

The Exeter Book, kept at Exeter Cathedral's library, is an anthology of poetry and riddles written in 970 AD. The book was the gift of Exeter's first bishop, Leofric, in the 11th Century and contains ...

A CELEBRATION of old English is to be held with readings of the old tongue at a County Durham church. Jack Drum Arts are to hold an evening of poetry and readings taken from old English at Escomb ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

In a recent issue of NM, Hugh T. Keenan discussed the occurrence of phrases equivalent to ′green street′ in Old English poetry. While indicating their interconnection, he does not demonstrate their ...