About 400 Anglo-Saxon texts survive from this era, including many beautiful poems, telling tales of wild battles and heroic journeys. The oldest surviving text of Old English literature is “Cædmon's Hymn”, which was composed between 658 and 680, and the longest was the ongoing “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Old English is the name given to the earliest recorded stage of the English language, up to approximately 1150AD (when the Middle English period is generally taken to have begun).

Includes Old English Alphabet and Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure, Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.

Old English arose from the set of varieties of West Germanic which the early settlers spoke. The three main groups of settlers were Angles, Saxons and Jutes. By and large, the Angles settled in the middle and north of England, the Saxon in the south and the Jutes in the area of present-day Kent.

Translate Old English text and words to Modern English and Modern English text and words to Old English.

Includes several Old English dictionaries. Place names, plant names, and the names of fish are also included.

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