1. Old English Language September 2, 2009 Ebony Johnson Brooke Harp

2. Origin Old English is also known as Anglo-Saxon Spoken between the mid 5 th century and the mid 11 th century It is a West Germanic language that is closely related to Old Frisian. Came From Germania

3. Who Were They ? “Anglo-Saxon” is the term applied to the English-speaking inhabitants of Britain Arrived in the island of Britain during the reign of Martain Created an extensive body of vernacular literature at a time when relatively little was being written in most of the other languages

4. Old English Dialects Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, and West Saxon Direct descendents in modern England Most Old English is in West Saxon Contains spellings and vocabulary from the Mercian and Northumbrian West Saxon was the dominate language

5. Different Groups of Old English North Germanic – Scandinavian languages, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese East Germanic – Gothic, which is now extinct but preserved in a fragmentary biblical translation from the 4 th century West Germanic – includes High German, English, Dutch, Flemish and Frisian

6. The Alphabet Long vowels were marked with macrons Alternate forms of g and w were based on the letters used at the time of writing Old English

7. Runic Alphabet The runic alphabet used to write Old English before the introduction of the Latin alphabet.

8. Stories In Old English Beowulf The Dream of The Rood The Wanderer The Seafarer The Battle of Maldon They left us the translations associated with King Alfred's educational program, a large body of devotional works by such writers as Ælfric and Wulfstan

9. This was the first page of Beowulf in The Old English Print

10. The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle, likely scribed around 1150, is one of the major sources of the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle.

11. Works Cited Page http://omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm]http://omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/ IOE/http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/ IOE/ http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/ IOE/genintro.htmlhttp://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/ IOE/genintro.html