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How to search the DOE Corpus for multiple words: phrases, word combinations, expressions. Includes regular expression and proximity searches.

The search interface of the DOE (2014)

The DOE has its own library of editions and facsimiles of Old English texts and manuscripts, as well as an extensive collection of scholarly materials. Also in the collection, courage in desperate straits: "Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the…

The entrance to the Dictionary of Old English: abandon eal hyht, you who enter here.

The main search screen of the Dictionary of Old English allows users to search the dictionary by headword (word defined in the dictionary), attested spellings, usage patterns, even by subject (legal, medical, historical).

David and Ian McDougall are drafting editors at The Dictionary of Old English. As they compose word definitions, they consult the entire Old English corpus for uses of their headword; they look at manuscript facsimiles; they trace parallels and…

Dream of the Rood ll. 1-10a recording (Old English poem, read aloud in English)

Dream of the Rood ll. 1-10a recording (Old English poem, read aloud)

"The fifth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, the letter A, consists of 1,505 headwords in 2,331 pages on microfiche. The material on which A is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except multiple copies of texts), an…

"These new additions to the Dictionary of Old English include the fourth fascicle, the letter Æ, consisting of 617 headwords in 771 pages on microfiche; the entry on the substantive verb Beon, issued as a supplement to Fascicle B, on 49 pages of…