What happens when you look at the language in the Bible, try to determine who’s happy and who’s not, then graph it all out?
OpenBible.info has done just that and posted a nice, circular graphic showing the ebbs and flows of positive and negative vibes in the Bible. It’s a pretty vanilla linguistic analysis, and the circle is just for aesthetics (see the author’s comment to the post), but it’s still interesting. Accurate? That’s another question — one that I’m not so positive about…
Recently, the University of Toronto’s Dictionary of Old English (DOE) project recently posted a new video advertising the need for a comprehensive dictionary of the earliest English language: YouTube – DictionaryOldEnglish’s Channel. Slick and concise, the video does a good job appealing to a more visual audience. Let’s hope that some of them pick up Old English! 
BTW, I still have my original microfiche fascicles of the first few letters. Good stuff!
Is this letter from Margery Brews to John Paston (dated February 1477) the earliest example of a Valentine? Read the story on the British Library “Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog”: The Oldest Valentine? – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts.
Dr. Stuart Lee at the Oxford Computing Services department, has begun a new website, Woruldhord (Old English for World-hoard),
to collect together into an online hoard, digital objects related to the teaching, study, or research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history.
What a wonderful way to collect and revel in Old English material, even (especially?) if it’s not part of your daily life any more.
Looks like Dr. Lee created other websites, one a digital archive for World War I poetry and another, Dragons in the Sky, for “English-Speaking Communities at the Close of the Millennia” (although it hasn’t been updated recently — the July 2006 article by Dr Catherine Clarke, “Compensation Culture,” is still marked “New”).
Source: medievalists.net post (http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/05/public-asked-to-help-created-world’s-largest-archive-on-anglo-saxon-england/)
© 2012 Mile Wide… Inch Deep… · Proudly powered by WordPress & Green Park 2 by Cordobo.
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Valid CSS 3
