Ancient Scholar’s Old English Reflection Journal — 90-Day Anglo-Saxon Language Study

Old English has been dead for nearly a thousand years. Nobody speaks it on the street, orders coffee in it, or sends it in a message. And yet every word you read today is built from its bones.

The words in this journal come from Beowulf, from Bede, from the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, and from the gnomic poetry of a people who knew that wisdom had to be earned slowly. Wyrd. Mod. Craeft. Treow. Soð. These are the words the English language was thinking in before it became what it is now.

This is ninety days of paying attention to where the language came from — and what it knew before it forgot.

What’s inside:

• Welcome page and how to use guide

• 90 daily two-page spreads

• Left page: word, pronunciation guide, translation, source text, and scholarly language note

• Right page: one thinking prompt and generous lined writing space

• Closing field: One word I carry from today

Format: 6 x 9 paperback, approximately 181 pages

Who this is for: Readers, writers, language lovers, history enthusiasts, anyone curious about the origins of English. No prior knowledge required.