Look up links on yorkshire/old yorkshire dialect, my grandfather spoke in thas thees and thous, happy days (sigh) gone and never to return

Shakespeare lesen?

"Ye" means "Ihr", not "Du".

Also, "ye" never meant "the". When you see "ye" in signs like "ye olde gifte shoppe" it is a mistaken interpretation of the runic letter thorn, representing the th-sound, and which looks a little like "y" (but not much.)

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You might want to check out this one: http://home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_dictio...

Übrigens: "alt Englishen" ... da du den Fehler ja immer wiederholst, kann ich Tippfehler wohl ausschließen. Englisch schreibt sich mit c und, wenn es wie hier adjektivisch gebraucht wird, mit kleinem 'e', und zudem ist "altenglisch" ein Wort.

PS: "Thee" is "Dich" or "Dir", not "Du"
"Thus" is not at all obsolete.
"Thou" is "Du", not "Sie".

Actually, you have a couple of mistakes already; it should be

thou - du
thee - dich, dir
ye - Sie (pl.), Ihr? (veralt.), "the"

And there's a difference between altes Englisch / old English (= altmodisches Englisch) and Altenglisch / Old English (= die Sprache der Angelsachsen, d.h., ~ 5. bis 11. Jh.).

If you just want practice reading in old-fashioned English, you might enjoy classics such as The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, or some of the poems from Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

Or of course there's always Shakespeare or the King James Version of the Bible, which you can find at Project Gutenberg or many other places online.

*f5* Oops, sorry, too slow off the mark ...

I can think of a few words off the top of my head -- e.g. fain, hie, lief, passing, etc. -- but do you need the German equivalents too?

it would really be easier to just look up one of the old / middle English books... can be found in any library at an English language Institute (Uni or similar)

Inspired by Benson's suggestions, some of my favourites:

fay
guerdon
welkin

For better learning effect, look up the meanings yourself! :P :)

Ich bedanke mich vielmals wegen der Berichtiung der altmodischen Artikel, bin aber immer noch auf der Suche nach poetischem Englischen Wörten.

I thank you all very much, but I'm still looking for some poetical english words. (And of course I read Wilde and Keats, to gather poetry words)

able was I *ere* I saw Elba.