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…
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).
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…
How to perform basic DOE Corpus searches finding one word in the corpus, restricting searches to one text or one class of texts, accessing bibliographical information for citations, and including compounds and inflected forms in searches.