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Having trouble playing sound files? The latest browsers have native support for sound: Old English Aerobics tries to take advantage of this. Upgrade your browser, if you haven’t done so recently (Internet Explorer users: get version 9!), and everything will work better.
If you’ve upgraded your browser and sound for some passages won’t play, try this: Select another button (e.g. “Words”), click on something, select the “Audio” button again, and try again to play the audio. This often works, but I have no idea why.
Do you wish you could write in the margins of these texts, as you can in a textbook? With a web annotation package you can highlight and annotate text and put virtual sticky notes anywhere on the page. Diigo is a good one that works in a variety of browsers; Webnotes is another. Both are free, though you can purchase a premium service if you like.
Does the floating dialog box make you queasy? Just drag it out of the way: it will stay wherever you put it until you either close it or double-click the title bar. If you want the dialog box always to stay put, uncheck “Dialog boxes move” in the Options dialog, which you can bring up by clicking the gear button.
When the dialog box is fixed in place, you can resize it by dragging the lower left corner.
Welcome to the home of the Old English Aerobics Anthology. The readings here are also printed in Peter S. Baker, Introduction to Old English, published by Wiley-Blackwell. You can get a copy at Powell’s, Barnes and Noble (including a version for the Nook), Amazon and Amazon UK (including a version for the Kindle), Play.com and other on-line retailers. You can preview Introduction to Old English at Google Books and buy an ebook version there. iPad users can get the book through the iBooks store.
These texts appeared in the 2nd edition but have been removed from the third. However, they will always be available here.