Dh and I have been watching a fascinating series called 'The Adventure Of English'."...the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_English
Beowulf is mentioned in it because it helped them to pinpoint which words came into the English language and when [at least I think thats why]. Anyway, I thought you'd enjoy the series, Sandra, and wanted to point it out to you in case you haven't found it yet 🙂.
Peace,
Col
from an SCA research list:
This is really cool! An almost nine-minute flash presentation of Old English—reading and pronunciation using the manuscript Laud 636 (the E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): [video no longer available], produced by professor Edwin Duncan.Well worth watching.
Hrothny
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath HAD a Blog
That's a fun way to begin to learn Middle English, because they're joking about popular culture (and medieval too).
[It was funny, they published a small book of good parts, but it was best as a blog, with fun comments!]
The Paston Letters [once-upon-a-time] at the site of the University of Virginia. 15th century letters of a family in Norfolk. much info at Wikipedia