Old High German

Dictionaries

Resource	Description
Old High German English Dictionary	You can add phrases of your own, as well; it's a collaborative effort.
English-Old High German Dictionary	A large PDF file with a ton of words.
Zedler Lexikon	Something like the Oxford English Dictionary, for German, 300 years ago.
Grimm's Dictionary	From about 150 years ago, and pretty easy to use.
Etymological Dictionary of the German Language	An old PDF, but has a lot of old information.
Early New High German Dictionary	An easy-to-navigate web interface.
Middle High German Conceptual Database	A pretty steep learning curve; probably best for only serious research.

Resource	Description
An Old High German Primer	Older images of a book.
An Old High German Primer HTML	A better copy of the above link.
Wright's Old German Primer	This book is everywhere, it appears.
Yes, an Old German Primer	This is the book to use, I guess.
Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart	An old German grammar, in various parts.
A grammar of Proto-Germanic	An overview of the ancestor language. Note that there are multiple chapters, and the links to the other ones are in the opening paragraphs.
A comparative grammar of the Teutonic languages	This is seriously the coolest book ever written. It's from 1870 too!
Video intro to Old High German	On Youtube.

Resource	Description
Old High German Declensions	Courtesy of the fountain of all knowledge (Wikipedia).
Old High German tables	Inflection tables and some info about Middle High German.
Proto-Germanic Inflections	A lot of useful information with charts.

Resource	Description
Old High German Texts	A site with many different texts, though it takes a bit of work to navigate.
Old German Texts	Separated by century.
Projekt Gutenberg	Contains many texts, a lot of which don't date back that far.
Austrian Literature Online	Some of these texts to date back a long way.
Anthology of Medieval German Literature	Originally a book, it looks like, and easy to navigate.
St. Gall's Treasure Trove	A collection of Old High German texts.
4 Medieval Manuscripts in German]	These give a good idea of the handwriting, too.
Tatian in Old High German	One of the earliest translations of Tatian's works.
Enlightenmen-era journals in German	This is for serious scholarship, and you'll need to know German as well.

Resource	Description
A brief history of the German language	You probably aren't going to find something better than this online.
Interaction of gender and declension in Germanic languages	A piece of scholarship on the contemporary languages, but interesting nonetheless.
History of the Teutonic Knights	As I recall, these guys were unbelievably tough in the computer game Age of Empires.
History of Germany	Might as well start from the beginning, right?