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journey of english - First english, Beowulf

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Uploaded by on Dec 14, 2007

the very first form of english, virtually none of the words are recoginizable by today, but the structure of our modern english has begun. 780A.D.

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  • Was this from a documentary? It looks like a very interesting one. What is it called?

  • the journey of english AD500 to 2000. :)

    it's a great docu, actually, i recommend buying a copy if you can :)

  • sounds like a mixture between english and scandinavian

  • and a lot like frisian too, which evolved form the same roots, but had less frankish and latin influence.

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  • That's because that is exactly what it is -

    these languages - Old English / AngloSaxon & Norse - were still very close and mutually intelligible at this stage - and act. very similar to modern Icelandic.

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