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    Old English is the name given to the ancestor language of what we know as the modern English. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of anglo-Saxon. About half of the most commonly used words in modern English have Old English roots.

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    Old English is the name given to the ancestor language of what we know as the modern English. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of anglo-Saxon. About half of the most commonly used words in modern English have Old English roots.

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    Old English

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    Old English is the name given to the ancestor language of what we know as the modern English. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of anglo-Saxon. About half of the most commonly used words in modern English have Old English roots.

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    What is old English?

    Old English is the name given to the


    ancestor language of what we know
    nowadays as the modern English. Old
    English is a germanic language spoken
    spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons
    and their descendants in parts of what are
    now England and south-eastern Scotland.

    When was the old English


    period?
    Old English period was at least the mid-5th
    century and the mid-12th century. What
    survives through writing represents
    primarily the literary register of Anglo-
    Saxon.

    Map that shows England at the beginning of the 10th


    century.

    Important examples of old English literature


    • Beowulf, an epic poem about a king adventure and
    his battles against monsters
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a record of early English
    history
    • The Franks Casket, an early whalebone artifact; and
    Caedmon's Hymn, a Christian religious poem.

    Important facts about old English


    • However, about half of the most commonly used words
    in modern English have Old English roots. Words like be,
    water, and strong, for example, derive from Old English
    Bewoulf, a poem written in old English,
    roots.
    was recently adapted to a movie, is
    the best surving example of this • Only about one sixth of the known Old English words
    language. have descendants surviving today.
    • The migration of Germanic tribes helped old English to
    expland
    Timeline of the Old English Period
    (based on Graddol et al. (1996), 382-385)
    Date
    (A
    POLITICAL LINGUISTICAL
    DATE EXTERNAL EVENTS TEXTS
    CONTEXT CONTEXT
    Romans leave
    410 Britain
    449 Anglo/Saxon invasions
    Augustine (Roman
    597 missionary) arrives in
    Kent; Ethelbert baptized
    Ethelbert of Kent’s Anglo-
    614 Saxon Laws
    625 Rise of Northumbria
    650 Rise of Mercia
    688 Laws of Wessex
    First Old
    Ruthwell Cross; Lindisfarne
    700 English texts
    Gospels; Franks Casket
    appear
    Bede’s Ecclestiastical
    731 History
    (in Latin)
    750 Viking invasions begin Beowulf composed
    King Alfred (ruled
    849-899 871-899)
    Alfred defeats Danes at
    878 Ethandun
    880 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
    Alfred’s Preface to his
    890 Translation of the Pastoral
    Care
    Second Viking
    invasions, Danish
    991 king takes English
    throne
    Edward the
    Confessor
    1042-66 granted the
    throne, last
    Anglo-British king
    French and Latin replace
    Norman Conquest
    1066 English as official
    – William I
    language
    1086 Domesday Book
    Notional start
    1100 of Middle
    English period
    D)
    External Events
    Political
    Context
    Linguistic
    Context
    Texts
    What I learned....

    • Though old English is an extincted language, it still has great influence in modern English.

    • English has evolved through the years. Old English sounds very different from what we know as

    'modern English'

    • There are many examples of old English literature nowadays, Bewaulf is the most popular.

    • The constant movement of Germanic tribes helped to 'old English' influence to expand through

    Europe.

    Sources

    http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/faq.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

    http://www.tlumaczenia-angielski.info/linguistics/old-english.htm

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