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2 days ago · Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of Old English, is crucial in any account of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
2 days ago · The Old English language was initially joined by other Germanic languages including Old Norse and Frisian. The Norman Conquest brought speakers of the Romance language Norman French to Britain.
4 days ago · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
4 days ago · British English predominantly spells it as two words, so does English in Ireland and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. American English predominantly spells it as one word.
3 days ago · Many of the English words we use today like beer, hand, mother and love have all survived from Old English. Neil and Georgina discuss where the English language we use today really comes from.
4 days ago · The English language is a West Germanic language that can be traced back to the Ingvaeonic languages. These languages were brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark, and the Netherlands, between the mid-5th and 7th centuries AD.
4 days ago · Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. Transcriptions from the manuscript rolls of all parliaments which survive for the period 1275 to 1504. The transcriptions - in Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English - are presented in parallel with a modern English translation.
