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56    <h1>My Old English resources</h1>
57    <p>These are resources for Old English on my site.</p>
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60        <img id="imgOEDecoration" src="Sutton-Hoo-helmet.png" alt="Anglo-Saxon helmet from the Sutton Hoo hoard." >
61        <figcaption>Obligatory photo of Anglo-Saxon artifact.</figcaption>
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64    <h2>My stuff</h2>
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66    <ul>
67    <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmKPRRPSnNvUKp0MZpzFLOcxv_eRMVL_HGxndZibYz4/edit?usp=sharing">How to look up words in Old English</a>. (Google Doc) A list of resources and suggestions for what to do if you can't find an OE word. Plus thoughts on how to go from modern English to Old English.</li>
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69    <li><a href="https://mikepope.com/sweet/sweet-dictionary-entries.html">HTML version of Henry Sweet's <i>A Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (1896)</i></a>. I've added various search features &mdash; see the <a href="https://mikepope.com/sweet/sweet-dictionary-about.html">About</a> page.</li>
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71    <li><a href="https://mikepope.com/old-english/first-steps-in-oe/">HTML version of Henry Sweet's <i>A First Steps in Old English (1897)</i></a>.<br>
72    I've used HTML links to make it easier to navigate between the text, grammar, and notes &mdash; see the <a href="https://mikepope.com/old-english/first-steps-in-oe/first-steps-in-oe-about.html">About</a> page.</li>
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74    <li>"<a href="https://mikepope.com/old-english/the-ruin/the-ruin.html">The Ruin</a>". A word-by-word and line-by-line breakdown of the elegaic poem. (See the disclaimer under the notes.) Inspired by similar texts on the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/anthology.html">OE Aerobics Anthology</a> page.</li>
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76    <li><a href="https://mikepope.com/old-english/OE-verb-practice.html">OE verbs practice</a>. A flashcard-like resource for practicing the inflections of the most common Old English verbs.</li>
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78    <li><a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/OE-war-compound-maker.html">Old English Warfare-Word Page</a>. For the aspiring OE poet. :) Randomly puts together Old English roots to create compounds pertaining to war.</li>
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80    <li>An <b>Old English Verse Forms cheat sheet</b> in PDF format. There are two layouts: a
81        <a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/OE-verse-forms-cheat-sheet-vertical.pdf" target="_blank">
82        vertical version</a> (also in <a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/OE-verse-forms-cheat-sheet-vertical-A4.pdf" target="_blank">A4 size</a>)
83        and a
84        <a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/OE-verse-forms-cheat-sheet.pdf" target="_blank">flipped version</a> (also in <a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/OE-verse-forms-cheat-sheet-A4.pdf" target="_blank">A4 size</a>). These are of course inspired by Paul Baker's <a href="https://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/resources.html" target="_blank">Magic Sheet of Old English Inflections</a>. :)
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88        <b>Wordgespan Rædelsas (Crosswords)</b> in Old English! For a list of the puzzles, see the <a href="oe-crosswords.html" target="_blank">
89        Wordgespan r&#483;delsas on Englisc</a> page.
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97        <p style="background-color:lightgoldenrodyellow;padding:.8em;border:1px red solid;"><b>Note!</b> If you <b><i>do</i></b> have a Google/Gmail account and are logged in, you can use the Google Doc links to make your own copy that you can fill in. If you <b><i>do not</i></b> have a Google/Gmail account, use the PDF files (non-interactive):</p>
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101            <li><b>#1: "Saga hwā ic eom"</b>
102            <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r4EqcOVnjEggnxFRLoWuaKEJNqPRsQpP2zspjwKUNEI/copy">Google Doc</a>, 
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105            <li><b>#2: "Dēorcynn"</b>
106                <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r0jneK-7Gpp6sYlHmVGGmLGi8oufH8U4Cin_PEFFl7g/copy">Google Doc</a>, 
107            <a target="_blank" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ytlIG6_qIv03_pmFxk0_6tXyGCDLS6to/view">PDF</a>
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110            <li><b>#3: "Heregeatwa"</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pp5nwUJhifTOrSkUAUibRrdn4MWhvrdPwnos75VTdMI/copy">Google Doc</a>, <a target="_blank" 
111href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wF8vJbuA1SSQ3By5pFAHTni8Mr_lye6D/view">PDF</a>
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114            <li><b>#4: "Æt þām borde"</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vI2vU0kIHsqGzsNvuTNLL_FO5bXaJoWtMlcYteUoOiI/copy">Google Doc</a>, <a target="_blank" 
115href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16C8NEFAhzvY_vb4-MEGw8OlsAAuuhm1g/view">PDF</a>
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126    <b>Original poems in Old English</b>. Speaking of verse, I took an Anglo-Saxon poetry class in which we wrote some poetry in Old English using OE poetry conventions and in imitation of various models that we were studying. I put my efforts on my blog, why not:
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128        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2785">Unlikely Anglo-Saxon Heroes</a>. (Imitiation of heroic poetry that uses poetic formulae)</li>
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130        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2786">Gettysburg Address in Old English</a>. (Imitiation of a heroic poem that features hypermetrical lines, as in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/dream.php">The Dream of the Rood</a>)</li>
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132        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2787">I speak for the trees ... in Old English</a>. (Imitation of a fable)</li>
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134        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2788">C&amacr;ttes wisd&omacr;m/A Cat's Wisdom</a>. (Imitation of the <a target="_blank" href="https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_08.htm">Precepts poem</a>)</li>
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136        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2792">&quot;St. Arthur&quot; in Old English</a>. (Imitation of "metrical prose" like Ælfric's <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%86lfric%27s_Lives_of_Saints/26osw">Life of St. Oswold</a>)</li>
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141    <li><b>Miscellaneous Google Docs</b>. A collection of shared Google Docs with notes about Old English grammar and vocabulary. NB: All are works in progress and some are still just outlines. Anyone should be able to leave comments for additions or corrections. Contact me if you want better edit access or otherwise have thoughts.
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144    <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sdbQMUy0URmGCn7lzWUdgRPj5WLlP87ISKG1AFPROl4/edit?usp=sharing">OE grammar terms</a>. Terms for grammar and other language-study concepts.</li>
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146   <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14vXC6Qeb-yX1Mstm4JTA80Jz9Hm5OlKPMYOOmm1J710/edit?usp=sharing">OE numbers</a>. Numbers in Old English.</li>
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148   <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YeYSzreQ9ortGjV20DmInO7EfRGsb6Hkixv4EPwujMg/edit?usp=sharing">OE prepositions</a>. OE prepositions and the cases they take.</li>
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150   <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1onS31n_MJFFMXiGRBqiXyO-qN2w62qZi9HItJiwLqxA/edit?usp=sharing">OE relative pronouns</a>. Various ways that Old English forms (marks) relative clauses.</li>
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152   <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijk5lSgdQdnDuxM28hw9YcMwsVbSNFvi3yMSA8hp5y8/edit?usp=sharing">OE time expressions</a>. Expressions like "today" and "long ago".</li>
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154   <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ljIQXKYKxACOdClZYQRD1BoEH5NBDhfiQLbwsP7EQyA/edit?usp=sharing">OE phrases</a>. Old English equivalents of everyday phrases like "Hello" and "How are you".</li>
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159<h2>Other stuff</h2>
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163            <a href="https://github.com/lizfischer/Old-English-Keyboard" target="_blank">Old English keyboard</a> (Windows only) to let you easily type characters like <b>&thorn;</b>, <b>&aelig;</b>, etc. The <a href="https://github.com/lizfischer/Old-English-Keyboard/blob/master/README.md" target="_blank">instructions</a> explain how to install and how to switch layouts, and what the mappings are.
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165        <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231225100217/https://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html">Old English Computer Glossary</a>. Fun. It would be great to update this!</li>
166        <li>Copy of the <a href="https://www.mikepope.com/old-english/Bright-OE-glossary.html">glossary from <i>Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader</i></a>. Taken from another site; I cleaned up the formatting a bit for readbility. Original linked at the top.</li>
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