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Old English Books
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Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.50 — 340,995 ratings — published 1000
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.13 — 414 ratings — published 1964
Introduction to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.83 — 275 ratings — published 2003
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,044 ratings — published 2021
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,252 ratings — published 2014
The Earliest English Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.93 — 740 ratings — published 1966
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,786,822 ratings — published 1590
Teach Yourself Old English (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.06 — 93 ratings — published 2006
Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.12 — 312 ratings — published 1982
The Dream of the Rood (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,300 ratings — published 800
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,826 ratings — published 731
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,001,477 ratings — published 1623
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.52 — 235,823 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.76 — 75,915 ratings — published 1375
The Cambridge Old English Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.03 — 110 ratings — published 2004
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,019 ratings — published 1983
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.08 — 51 ratings — published 1995
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,694,382 ratings — published 1813
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,277,437 ratings — published 1811
Old and Middle English c.890–c.1400: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.96 — 104 ratings — published 2000
The Battle of Maldon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.67 — 475 ratings — published 1090
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,029,706 ratings — published 1601
The Exeter Book Riddles (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.88 — 209 ratings — published 970
Word Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.11 — 62 ratings — published 1977
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, #14)
by (shelved 6 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.92 — 238 ratings — published 1894
Wordcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published 1993
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.87 — 933 ratings — published 893
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.62 — 504 ratings — published 2000
Old English Literature: A Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2004
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.80 — 863,177 ratings — published 1861
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.94 — 571,895 ratings — published 1595
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,154 ratings — published 890
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.97 — 62 ratings — published 1925
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,304 ratings — published 1000
An Old English Grammar (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.03 — 39 ratings — published 1955
Complete Old English Beginner to Intermediate Course: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English, with Original Texts (Teach Yourself)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published
The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.90 — 31 ratings — published 2011
A History of Old English Literature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.54 — 26 ratings — published 2006
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,281,549 ratings — published 1846
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.04 — 102 ratings — published 1987
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.27 — 179 ratings — published 2010
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.07 — 919 ratings — published 1982
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.05 — 961,201 ratings — published 1815
An Introduction to English Runes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published 1973
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.79 — 117 ratings — published 1882
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 4.28 — 209 ratings — published 1992
Grendel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.69 — 41,911 ratings — published 1971
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.89 — 430,916 ratings — published 1603
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-english)
avg rating 3.85 — 52,592 ratings — published 1599
“Now!
Forgive me not for what I say
Much less what I feel...
My lady,
You the one who stole my soul and hid it thou heart
My lady!
Gave my this curse of love!...
Love, love gave it life
But at what cost?
Now... Now I know not what is to belong to my self
I have lost my will to live if not by your side.
But how tis' came to be?
I know little of what came to pass but one thing I know
My love for you is true
I belong to you”
―
Forgive me not for what I say
Much less what I feel...
My lady,
You the one who stole my soul and hid it thou heart
My lady!
Gave my this curse of love!...
Love, love gave it life
But at what cost?
Now... Now I know not what is to belong to my self
I have lost my will to live if not by your side.
But how tis' came to be?
I know little of what came to pass but one thing I know
My love for you is true
I belong to you”
―
“In Old English, thou (thee, thine, etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started to be used as a polite form of the singular - probably because people copied the French way of talking, where vous was used in that way. English then became like French, which has tu and vous both possible for singulars; and that allowed a choice. The norm was for you to be used by inferiors to superiors - such as children to parents, or servants to masters, and thou would be used in return. But thou was also used to express special intimacy, such as when addressing God. It was also used when the lower classes talked to each other. The upper classes used you to each other, as a rule, even when they were closely related.
So, when someone changes from thou to you in a conversation, or the other way round, it conveys a different pragmatic force. It will express a change of attitude, or a new emotion or mood.”
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So, when someone changes from thou to you in a conversation, or the other way round, it conveys a different pragmatic force. It will express a change of attitude, or a new emotion or mood.”
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