The Old English Literature, also called Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest form of English. It is difficult to give exact dates for the rise and development of a language, because it does not change suddenly; but perhaps it is true to say that Old English was spoken from about A. D. 600 to about 1000.

terça-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2009

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm

This site is amazing to know more about the Old English. Old English was sometimes written with a version of the Runic alphabet, brought to Britain by the Anglo-Saxons until about the 11th century. In this site we can visualize this symbols, besides the also English alphabet and pronunciation of the letters. In addition to this, there is an example of an old English text (The prologue of Beowulf) compared with the Modern English version.
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