I tried asking earlier this week Chat GPT to name about 50-100 different nouns (both strong & weak) for masculine, neuter, and feminine. 🤷🏼‍♀️

But would anyone have any websites that I can double check on any mistakes that Chat GPT had made. I know that Chat GPT is a machine with using AI information learning patterns, but this is a good topic to explore as for how can AI be used as a tool for language learning (if possible). 🤷🏼‍♀️

I know we CANNOT purely rely on Chat GPT to formulate answers to us learners, so that I why I am here asking this amazing community about for if there are sites with known dictionaries that include Old English words with their respected genders. I am willing to learn verbs (both strong & weak) and also adjectives too. ☺️

Thank you very much for keeping this beautiful (dead) language alive for us Modern English speaker to learn! ☺️💕

P.S. Duostories, that website has 12 small stories written in Old English! 🤫😉

I've been reading and learning about Anglo Saxon history lately and I learned about the "migration" I know some historians are proponents of mass migration and other of integration, but I've read that the genetic data suggest some sort of large gene pool shift. Is it possible that the Germanic tribes brought over some disease that the native Britains couldn't handle similar to what happened to the native Americans during European colonization. Thanks

Question: How can you tell someone has Anglo Saxon heritage and/or roots? Especially when it comes to white people who live in the US. It's a lot more easier to trace contemporary European heritage by white denizens living in Europe but in the Americas it's a bit more difficult because the continent is very diverse and also taking into consideration that white settlers from Europe moved there to build a society on foreign land. A lot of them also don't consider themselves European, but rather just American which is also kind of odd.

I’ll seen both be used in Different Texts and I don’t know which is proper name.

Here's a great episode from David Crowthers History of the Anglo-Saxons...

I find David's interpretations sensible and well thought out...

I hope someone else finds merit in it too.

Anyhoo... here's the link.

I'm listening to The History of England | 1.4 Founding Kingdoms on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-pxq3w-218822a

Hael og sael.

Albeit Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Norse or what not, why do you wear your jewelry and what is your preferred piece?

Broch locations.

On the right is a high status male furnished grave (122) from the 6th century in Essex. Included is pottery, a shield boss at his feet and flanked by spear head and sword. No correct answer I think, we don't know. I'm of course biased and I think he looked more like this, I chose him for a good reason ;)

The old paper is here:

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1075294

Bonamy - ᛒᚩᚾᚪᛗᛁ

I know it isnt a word but was hoping someone could help me out if im on the right track.

Any specialist in Languages ever read this one?:

https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml

Whats your opinion on their claim? Word for word from their paper.

In the book, we show that both synchronically and historically, Middle (and Modern) English is unmistakably North Germanic and not West Germanic. (Uncontroversially, Old English, just like Dutch and German, is West Germanic.) That is, Middle English did not develop from Old English. Old English is the language of mainly West Saxon texts, of which the last exemplars are widely taken to be the earlier Peterborough Chronicles through 1121 (Freeborn, 1998: 82). We claim that Middle and Modern English are instead direct descendants of the language spoken by Scandinavians who had relocated to England over more than two centuries prior to the Norman Conquest.

Pack it up boys (and girls) we are all Vikings again, it looks like a rare L inflicted on frankly dominant 'southern' modes of speaking.

Jokes aside within the nuances there is something very interesting:

Although the majority of the non-cognate Germanic words may be from Old English (perhaps 2/3 of them), the Norse words are typically daily-life words, words for objects and concepts that Old English also must have had. We mention just a few typical examples out of hundreds: bag, birth, both, call, crook, die, dirt, dike, egg, fellow, get, give, guess, likely, link, low, nag, odd, root, rotten, sack, same, scrape, sister, skin, skirt, sky, take, though, ugly, want, wing, etc. It is essentially unheard of that a living language on its own territory borrows huge numbers of daily-life terms from an immigrant population whose language dies out, yet that is what the traditional scenario is forced to claim about Middle English. Burnley (1992), in fact, concludes that about half the common Germanic words of English are not of English origin, and very few of these, relatively speaking, have any source other than Scandinavian.

This is absolutely stunning to me. Remember the Gretzinger 2022 paper does highlight a large migration from scandinavia in the viking age, but to have such an influence on daily-life words is suprising, or perhaps it shouldn't be, if we have been paying attention to language change in our period.

Edit: Looks like there is a compelling retort to this, and the above is contested. https://www.reddit.com/r/anglosaxon/s/wcpJePnfWP

nice find u/potverdorie

The Wessex Regionalists are a political party advocating for devolution in the South and South-West of England.

They define Wessex (along with the Wessex Society) as the eight historical counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Dorset and Devon.

Obviously, modern factors have been taken into account in creating this definition - but from a historical perspective, how legitimate is this definition of Wessex?

I'm reading Dunstan by Conn Iggledun and much of the plot takes place in 10th century Winchester, London and York. He describes urban scenes (market stalls, town/three storey town buildings, cobbled streets etc, workshops etc). How much did the Anglo Saxons build urban infrastructure themselves like townhouses, roads etc rather than just rehashing the old Roman structures?