Originally Posted by
SaintRidley
So I asked around of some of my professors - my Chaucer professor had some book recommendations, my linguistics professor didn't know, and my Spanish professor studied it as part of his bachelor's in Germanic linguistics, but he didn't know where his books were.
My advisor was able to give me some real help, though. Her husband did his PhD in Anglo-Saxon poetics, so I've been going out to their farm weekly to work through translations and study the language better.
I speak English and Spanish, so the hard part is mostly dealing with remembering the declensions since I've never dealt with a language that declines as much as Englisc. Never taken German or anything like that, so I don't have a huge base of comparison.
Once I get into grad school, though, I intend to continue with Old English and get started on Old Norse too. I'm already at the point where I'm loving some of the words enough that I want to use them now.
I don't know. I'm weird. I'm triple majoring in Writing, Literature and Spanish. And I'm studying Old English in my spare time. And the Old English is starting to bleed into my poetry the more I pursue it.