Anglo Saxon Translator

Pick a direction, modern English to Old English or the reverse, and type up to 500 characters. There's a small keyboard for þ, ð and æ, which saves hunting for them. The result comes back as a draft with grammar notes, flagged words and links to dictionary entries and you can turn a line into a manuscript-style image. The site's sample prompts are things like "The king rode into the hall" and "I love you with all my heart", which tells you the kind of short line it's built for.

Around the translator sit a dictionary the site describes as 100 hand-checked high-frequency words, an alphabet guide, a directory of real Anglo-Saxon names with meanings, and a reader for the opening of Beowulf. Sources named on the site include the Bosworth-Toller dictionary, Wiktionary, Klaeber's Beowulf, the Exeter Book and the West Saxon Gospels.

The phrase library is where the site is most careful. Each of its 36 phrases carries one of three labels. Attested means the line appears in a source, such as "Þæt wæs gōd cyning!" from Beowulf line 11. Adapted means a real line was changed, like the Beowulf greeting with Hrothgar's name removed so it can greet anyone. AI draft means exactly that. Each entry gives a meaning, a literal gloss and a note on usage, for example that "sceal" expresses duty rather than plain future.

That labelling matters if you're putting Old English on something permanent. Old English survives in a limited body of texts, so a machine translation into it is a starting point, not an answer. The linked dictionary entries make it possible to check individual words, and the attested phrases are the safer pick when you need a line that's actually documented.

The privacy policy, last updated September 25, 2026, says translation is the only feature that sends your input anywhere. Your text goes from the browser to the site's server and on to an outside AI model provider through an API relay, which the policy names and which handles the text under its own terms. The site keeps no accounts and no translation history, its request logs record timing and text length but not the text, and analytics come from a self-hosted, cookieless Plausible installation. The policy asks people not to paste sensitive personal information into the translator. The site doesn't name the person or company that runs it.