Why, there you are!

I thought I was just a computer geek, but after we started reading Beowulf for our homeschool history, I realized that I could have just as easily been a language/literature geek.  I’m a novice, but am really enjoying our little literary adventures.

Most links below are external.

Language

• Wikipedia: The Great Vowel Shift
• The ABC’s and All Their Tricks by M. Bishop
• The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America, by William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
• The Speech Accent Archive

Literature & Lore – Some of my favorites

• 1000 Good Books List

• The Aubrey/Maturin “Master and Commander” series, by Patrick O’Brian

• The Gunroom
• WikiPOBia

• Beowulf, author unknown

  • Beowulf word cloud (made using the now-defunct wordle.net)
  • Old English Pronunciations / University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Beowulf / McGoodwin – has a summary of the plot, a link to a pronunciation guide, and audio examples

• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Tolkien Website
  • Britannica: The Lord of the Rings
  • Britannica: J.R.R. Tolkien