Book description
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English-and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer's…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Wordhord as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I discovered this wonderful volume at a pop-up bookstore in Clarksburg, WV, where I was appearing with The Rustic Mechanicals, bringing my take on Macbeth to their touring show. This book by Hana Videen brings together linguistic scholarship with the lives of people in early medieval England, showing how words and phrases encapsulate the world-view. Spritely and well-written, a joy to keep by the bedside for dipping into.
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