Col. Alan Baragona seems to be the Internet Chaucer guy. Here he has collected links to the sounds of Chaucer: The Criyng and the Soun. I recommend playing the sound file with Harvard University’s interlinear translation of the General Prologue open at the same time. The translation is from Larry D. Benson., Gen. ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Houghton Miflin Company.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007Olde English
Friday, November 9th, 2007Peter S. Baker of the University of Virginia has a nice old English site Old English at UVA. Of particular interest, Dr. Baker (I guess) reads Beowulf. Dr. Baker presents a series of .wav files. I recommend that you open the University of Toronto Library’s interlinear translation of Beowulf and then hit play on one of Dr. Baker’s sound files.