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

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

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

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 search interface of the DOE (2014)

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

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.

How to use the Dictionary of Old English to look up Old English and Modern English words.