Introduction to Old English

- Preface
- How to use this book

1. The Anglo-Saxons and Their Language
1.1 Who Were They?
1.2 Where Did Their Language Come From?
1.3 What Was Old English Like?
1.4 Old English Dialects

2. Pronunciation
2.1 Quick Start
2.2 More About Vowels
2.3 More About c and g
2.4 Syllable Length
2.5 Accentuation
2.6 On-line Pronunciation Practice
2.7 Summary

3. Basic Grammar: A Review
3.1 Parts of Speech
3.2 Phrases
3.3 Clauses
3.4 Elements of the Sentence or Clause

4. Case
4.1 What is Case?
4.2 Uses of the Cases

5. Pronouns
5.1 Quick Start
5.2 More about Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns
5.3 Interrogative Pronouns
5.4 Indefinite Pronouns
5.5 Relative Pronouns
5.6 Reflexive Pronouns
5.7 Reciprocal Pronouns

6. Nouns
6.1 Quick Start
6.2 More about Strong Nouns
6.3 Minor Declensions

7. Verbs
7.1 Quick Start
7.2 More about Endings
7.3 More about Weak Verbs
7.4 More about Strong Verbs
7.5 Verbs with Weak Presents and Strong Pasts
7.6 More about Preterite-Present Verbs
7.7 Dôn, gân, willan
7.8 Negation
7.9 The Verbals
7.10 The Subjunctive

8. Adjectives
8.1 Quick Start
8.2 Strong Adjectives
8.3 Weak Adjectives
8.4 Comparison of Adjectives

9. Numerals
9.1 Quick Start
9.2 Cardinal Numbers
9.3 Ordinal Numbers

10. Adverbs, Conjunctions and Prepositions
10.1 Quick Start
10.2 Adverbs
10.3 Conjunctions
10.4 Correlation
10.5 Prepositions

11. Concord
11.1 Quick Start
11.2 Subject and Verb
11.3 Pronoun and Antecedent
11.4 Noun and Modifiers
11.5 Bad Grammar?

12. Word-order
12.1 Quick Start
12.2 Subject-Verb
12.3 Verb-Subject
12.4 Subject . . . Verb
12.5 Correlation
12.6 Periphrastic Verbs

13. Metre
13.1 Alliteration
13.2 Rhythm

14. Poetic Style
14.1 Vocabulary
14.2 Variation
14.3 Formulas

15. The Grammar of Poetry
15.1 Inflections
15.2 Syntax

16. Reading Old English Manuscripts
16.1 Construction of the Manuscript
16.2 The Old English Alphabet
16.3 Abbreviations
16.4