Nostratic and the Comparative Method

• "What We All Spoke When the World Was Young" - Feb. 1, 2000, NY Times article on language superfamilies and the comparative method
• "Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language" (1995 NY Times article on Nostratic)
• "The Early History of the Indo-European Languages" (Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov) - 1990 Scientific American article on Nostratic
• The Nostratic Language (Wikipedia)

Indo-European

• Calvert Watkins' "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans" (American Heritage Dictionary)
• The Indo-European Language Family

Germanic

• Tree of Germanic Languages (George Freeman)
• The Seven Distinctive Features of Germanic - linguistic features, Grimm's Law
• The Lord's Prayer in several Germanic languages (Cathy Ball)
• Indo-European Language Resources (Sean Crist) - Gothic, Old English, Old High German glossaries, Tocharian texts and notes, etc.
• The Germanic Invasion of Western Europe (University of Calgary)

Old English

• Old English Pages (Cathy Ball) - texts, fonts, art, links, etc.
• Old English/Anglo-Saxon (Omniglot) - brief explanation with focus on the OE alphabet and its pronunciation; links
• Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry - texts of all surviving OE poetry; no translations or recordings
• The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein) - Old English sermon with manuscript image, texts, translation; good for learning to read Old English script
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Glossary (Sean Crist) - abridged Old English dictionary
• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Sean Crist) - complete Old English dictionary.
• King Alfred's Old English Grammar - complete OE grammar with modern grammar review, useful exercises
• Old English Aloud (Steve Pollington) - texts, readings in OE Poetry - Introduction to Old English (Peter Baker) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, useful exercises
• An Online Course in Old English (Murray McGillivray) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, RealAudio recordings