Welcome to Learn Old English: a digital resource for teaching and learning Old English. Use our search bar above to translate between Old English and Present-day English, or click on the links at the top of the page to read about Old English history, grammar and its sounds and writing, or to learn how to make best use of this website, alongside some interesting blogs and videos about Old English.
The English language has evolved over time, with its history stretching back centuries. From Old English to Modern English, the development of the language has been marked by several major milestones. Here is a timeline of the English language:Old Engl...
Learn more >Old English (OE) was written with the same writing system as we use for Present-day English (PDE): the Roman (or Latin) alphabet. However, the way in which the sounds of OE are represented in written forms of the language varies in a number of ways fro...
Learn more >Morphology (or more specifically, inflectional morphology) refers to the way words in a language change in order to convey grammatical information so that the word can be understood fully in the context of the sentence in which it appears. In Present-d...
Learn more >Jordi Cano writes about his time on the Learn Old English project as a work experience student from Christleton High School, and what he learnt about the language, and this web resource. I worked from the 2nd to the 5th July 2024 as a research assistan...
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