...because it's like another language entirely. (FYI, Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English, or so wiki tells me.) I made myself a study sheet back when I was studying for the second midterm, and it looks like this:
All different forms of "the good man" or "the good queen" or "the good ship," depending on whether it's in the nominative, genitive, dative, or accusative case (which I remember by likening them to parts of grammar in French, uh huh) and masculine, feminine, or neuter, yes.
The vocab list I have for Bede's Account of Caedmon has words like
21) inbrydnisse: (f) inspiration
22) geglaengde: (class 1) adorn
23) Engliscgereorde: (n) the English language
24) geworht: (class 1) make, form, perform
In short - Modern English is much simplified from Old English, and we should all be thankful for it. Also, I am very very scared for this exam, since it seems I have forgotten most of my grammar and still have 189 vocab words to learn. All my thoughts for my French composition exam (8:30 the same Friday) are being pushed out by this growing sense of doom over Old English T_T. I can't wait for exams to go diaf, seriously.