/asatru/ - Asatru / Heathenry / Paganism

>>3822
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/genintro.html
for reference, this is what I'm looking at at the moent, but I don't know if someone else has a better option

Although i would like to speak old English, it is really not useful at all and no one except history professors in parts of England know it, and the language has been lost. There is a language in netherlands, Frisian which is almost the same as old english and its still spoken in some places.

>>3822
Old Norse grammar for you, brother.http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/NION-1.pdf

>>3822

There is a reader and a glossary in the same series of books and I forgot to mention it in the last post. If you're interested in Old English as well check out the "Old English Grammar and Reader" by Robert E. Diamond.

>>3833
Frisian is most closely related to modern day English. Old Frisian was most closely related to Old English. Old Frisian and Old English are very different from their modern counterparts.

>>4578
>>3833
I imagine Frisian to be closer to Old Frisian than English is to Old English, due to the Norman influence on the English language. It's true that Frisian is still spoken today, but only by under 1 million people almost all of whom are highly likely to also speak Dutch, German or both with English likely being very common as well. That doesn't mean that Frisian is worthless to learn - it has cultural value - but then, so does Old English as I believe that if you're an Anglo-Saxon Heathen, there's a value in using Old English in any rites you perform if you can. It's the "right" language for use in such rites and using it honours your pre-Norman ancestors. I don't know it myself, but I think it would be a good thing to learn it.