Old French Reading Group

Convenor

Professor Véronique Duché: room 511, Babel.

To be added to the mailing list for notices please email Andrew Stephenson: andrewws@unimelb.edu.au.

Meetings

The Group meets from 4:30-5:30, currently fortnightly on Zoom.

Next meeting: Monday 2 August, continuing 'La Chanson de Roland' from laisse CXVIII.

There are many versions of the text available online. A convenient one is the Wikisource text, especially the bilingual version with facing text in modern French.

This will be an online video meeting via Zoom; please email andrewws@unimelb.edu.au to be added to the meeting list.

Venue: Currently online.

Please remember that no experience with French or Old French is necessary!

Resources

• The ATILF Dictionnaire (Moyen Français), with a Chrétien appendix
• Online dictionaries:
  • The Anglo-Norman Dictionary (English)
  • Le Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (French)
  • ATILF (French) slightly later, but still good
• University of Texas Old French Online, including grammar summaries and parsed extracts from various Old French texts

Set of resources online supplied by Trinity College Dublin: The Joys of Old French web page.

Also, the Wikipedia Old French Grammar web page.