Old French Reading Group

Convenor

Professor Véronique Duché: room 511, Babel.

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Meetings

The Group meets from 5:00-6:00, generally on the first and third Mondays of the month.

Next meeting: Monday 1 April.

Venue: Room 506, Babel Building.

We will continue the lai Laüstic by Marie de France from line 57: 'Lungement se sunt entr'amé'.  The French Wikisource text is available 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.