A History of the English Language - Elly van Gelderen - A Companion Site Several sample texts in Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English are .The Old English Texts 1 - 6 have been normalised into Early West Saxon. The punctuation of all texts in this section is editorial, since the originals were only .#1 is Old English or Anglo-Saxon circa 450-1066 CE . #2 is Middle of Shakespeare. #4 is another sample of Modern English, but it is more recent than #3..
It is an example of an Old English stylistic device, the kenning. The oldest surviving text of Old English literature is Cdmon 's Hymn, composed between 658 .A History of the English Language - Elly van Gelderen - A Companion Site Several sample texts in Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English are .The Old English Texts 1 - 6 have been normalised into Early West Saxon. The punctuation of all texts in this section is editorial, since the originals were only .#1 is Old English or Anglo-Saxon circa 450-1066 CE . #2 is Middle of Shakespeare. #4 is another sample of Modern English, but it is more recent than #3..
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