I have only begun to scratch the surface of Old English in my research, and know of only one local genie who can actually read it. You may enjoy, as did I, listening to a verse of the Bible spoken in Old English, and reading the script of it. It's a Genesis verse. I'm grateful we don't have to try to read or speak it today, for church! One snag, you can read the verse without having the sound program Real Audio, but to hear it spoken, you must download that if you don't have it. Newer machines can run it, older ones probably can't. The system requirements are there someplace with it, I already had it, so didn't look. bj http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/excavation990818.html