Old Irish
Goidelic Celtic
Serves: Celtic
Entry David Stifter, Sengoídelc — the hardest entry in the list; eDIL is free.
Named as the Celtic wing's language of access. No study notes yet.
The Word-Hoard · The tongues
The Tongues
Languages of access · honest status
Every wing has a language of access. This page names them, states what level of engagement each wing will eventually require, and lists the entry grammar for each. Languages not yet taken up are marked plainly; the map deepens only where work has begun.
This list is longer than one life. It is here as a map of the country, not a schedule of conquest. Each entry is marked with what has actually been begun.
Middle Welsh
Brittonic Celtic
Serves: Celtic · Arthurian
Entry Gareth Evans, A Grammar of Middle Welsh; Simon Rodway's reader. Much gentler than Old Irish.
Named for Celtic and Arthurian access. No study notes yet.
Latin (medieval / Hiberno-Latin)
Italic
Serves: Celtic · Arthurian · Western · Eastern
Entry Any standard grammar; then Sidwell, Reading Medieval Latin — the universal solvent.
Serves all four wings. No study notes yet.
Old English
West Germanic
Serves: Word-Hoard
Entry Peter Baker, Introduction to Old English — free companion site.
Homed in the Word-Hoard with Beowulf. No study notes yet.
Old Norse
North Germanic
Serves: Word-Hoard
Entry Barnes, A New Introduction to Old Norse (Viking Society, free PDF).
Homed in the Word-Hoard. No study notes yet.
Old French
Romance
Serves: Arthurian
Entry Kibler, An Introduction to Old French — needed for Chrétien in the original.
Named for Arthurian access. No study notes yet.
Middle English
West Germanic
Serves: Arthurian
Entry Burrow & Turville-Petre, A Book of Middle English.
Named for Arthurian access. No study notes yet.
Koine / Patristic Greek
Hellenic
Serves: Eastern · Western
Entry Entry grammar to be named when begun.
Long horizon for Eastern and Western access. No study notes yet.
Church Slavonic
Slavic
Serves: Eastern
Entry Entry grammar to be named when begun.
Long horizon for the Eastern wing. No study notes yet.