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| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5070 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 11 09 March 2011 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
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If you need Old English audio, you need to check out
Anglo Saxon Aloud. Michael Drout is an English professor with a specialization in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and has done several courses for the Modern Scholar, including one on the history of the English language. His audio courses are excellent, and his recordings of Old English materials are free. I highly recommend checking them out. Edited by JasonE on 09 March 2011 at 6:48pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 10 of 11 21 March 2011 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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Along with Teach Yourself Old English by Mark Atherton there is also First Steps in Old English by Stephen Pollington together with the 2 CD set 'Old English Poems, Prose and Lessons'. The two together are pretty good for getting a foundation in Old English.
Certainly better than going to hear Beowulf and the The Battle of Maldon read by a crusty university lecturer (who strangely insisted on wearing an academic gown) from the days when I did Old English as a unit during my degree. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 11 17 May 2011 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
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Professor Michael Drout's reading of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records is a monumental task, but the best thing at the site is his comment from Jan 10, 2010:
There will be a short delay in Anglo-Saxon Aloud postings. My dog has decided that he either does or doesn’t like Ælfric, and so he chimes in on the recordings from the other room. I may have to adjust when I do the recordings, or perhaps Lancelot will get used to Ælfric. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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