An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of TheWordhord:Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called 鈥渁 marvelous book鈥�
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English鈥攁nd what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Why I hoard words I took an Old English module on a whim during my first year at university. I came across it at a foreign language informational session, and having never seen or heard Old English before, I was astonished to learn that my own mother tongue could be c...Read More
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer鈥檚 Middle English, Old English鈥攖he language of聽Beowulf鈥攄efies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Read More
