Centre for Medieval Studies
Graham Paterson
Graham Paterson convenes meetings of the Old English Reading Group (OERG). The purpose of the group is to offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills in translation of Old English prose and poetry. Attendance is open to anyone with an interest in the Old English language and being a postgraduate student on either the beginners or advanced OE skills classes at CMS is not a prerequisite. For those attendees who are students on either of those classes it may be of interest to know that OERG text extracts are chosen so as not to conflict with texts used in the skills classes.
OERG meetings will be held online, with links to folders containing relevant material being sent to prospective attendees some days in advance of the meeting to allow preparation. The folders will contain Graham’s introduction to the text, copies of manuscript folio scans from which he has transcribed the text extract for the meeting, the text extract itself, his own glossary specific to that text extract and a copy of Peter Baker’s Magic Sheet. Attendees will need to have their own copy of a Clark-Hall dictionary.
After the meeting Graham will circulate to attendees a link to his own line-by-line suggested translation of the text extract, which will incorporate endnotes drawing attention to particular points of grammar and other points of interest.
More details of how online meetings are conducted plus advice concerning preparation can be found via this link: OERG 2022 2023 general information