It can be used in undergraduate or postgraduate Old English teaching, either for compulsory or optional assessments, or just for background. This list of Old English Core Vocabulary is intended as a teaching aid: the idea is that students learn this list of words by heart. A word signalled as ‘hapax legomenon’ is found only once in the entire Old English corpus, and was possibly coined for the passage in question. The cognates in a number of related languages are intended to make memorisation of the words easier. The reference ‘poet.’ signals predominant usage of a word in poetry.
Some of the words are among the most frequent in Old English literature some are of particular importance on account of their literary or linguistic usage. The list below presents some 500 Old English words which could be regarded as literary core vocabulary.
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