See also the anglish wiki which imagines a more Germanic English with made up Germanic words replacing French, Latin, etc. https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf
Does anyone have good resources for learning Old English? I have Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide to Old English" from a college course I took years ago but it's a little old-fashioned and I've found it less than ideal for self-study. I have to imagine there are internet based resources that could help with the oral aspects as well.
I like King Alfred's Grammar (https://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/gram/GrammarBook/KAGramm...). It's designed as an intro (and actually suggests Mitchell & Robinson as a followup) but it's well done. Not that much coverage of oral stuff, but unless you have a time machine you haven't told us about, that's not really the reason people study pre-modern languages.
My understanding is that aside from what can be inferred from meter / rhyme in poetry, nobody really knows pronunciation before a certain date. Is that correct? If so, what is "that date"?