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 ...

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 ...

Meaning “to see or observe something remarkable,” from Old English behealdan. Used to express awe, as in “Behold the beauty ...

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 ...

Like many Old English poems, Maxims I has been considered both an early and a late composition. The present article offers lexical, dialectal, metrical, and cultural evidence in support of the ...

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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1979, Atlantis is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published twice-yearly by the Spanish Association of Anglo-American ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have ...

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 ...