Hey Peter
I enjoy the Old Norse Studies when I am able - but a good basic -  for Old English
is "Old English" by Mark Atherton you get a 304-page course book and a 1xAudio CD
I have this and the ISBN - is 978-0-340-91505-9 it was UK £29.99 on Amazon.co.uk
Here Follows an extract taken from the back of the packaging
 
"Old English is a comprehensive introduction to the language, equally suited to the
general reader, the historian, and the student of English literature and language.
Vocabulary and grammar are taught through original texts, some of which are on
the accompanying CD. The Author points out correspondences between Old and Modern English, and explores the Anglo-Saxon cultural context.
 
Mark Atherton is Tutor in Old and Middle English at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and has taught
German, French, and English as a foreign language.
 
The CD that accompanies the book has been specially recorded by teachers of Old English
and contains recordings of the main texts for study.
 
Visit www.teachyourself.co.uk to see a complete range of books.
 
I so hope that this will help you to decide - the study of Linguistics can be absorbing to the
point of "Addiction"
Kveðja
Patricia
 
 
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Date: 07/03/2010 11:03:36
Subject: [norse_course] old english vs old norse; pronouns
 
I started the Old Norse course about a month ago and I'm enjoying it.  I'm on lesson 5. I'm wondering if anyone has also studied Old English.  I read in the Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, Ch. 7 that "the language in England was the same as that spoken in Norway and Denmark" before 1066.  I assume the writer means that an OE speaker could understand an ON speaker, and that he is not simply referring to Norse-speaking areas of England, but it's not clear, at least to me.  Anyway, I'm actually more interested in Old English, but I like this course and I did not see anything similar for OE.  But I noticed on Amazon.com that Old English dictionaries are cheap and plentiful, but that's not true for Old Norse.  So I was thinking that if I continue to study after I complete this online Old Norse lesson, I might buy materials for OE and start over, with the idea that I will have gained a bit. Am I fooling myself? Has anyone done so and what is the transition like?
 
Also: how necessary are personal pronouns?  It seems like the verb does the job.
 
 
 
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