“Certainly, the DOE is of interest to scholars of Old and Middle English, to linguists and historians,” she begins. “But most importantly, it catalogues the beginning of the English language, our own ...

Just when you think you know your own language, along comes a hellwyrgen. Rob Getz ran across the creature in a 12th-century manuscript, where it was pushing some thieves suffering torments in hell ...

To English-speakers today, the language in its earliest form — spoken over a millennium ago — seems like straight-up gibberish. But scholars at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies ...

The letter F has come in for some close scrutiny lately, thanks to the editors of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) project at the University of Toronto. Researchers on the renowned lexicographic ...