Old English (450 - 1100 ad)

Meer zoals dit

Thor and the giants

door Ana Julia Aguirre Flores

World's Major Religions

door Travis Seitz

World History and Geography: Medieval and Early Modern Times

door Daryl Tripp

Excerpts from the Malleus Maleficarum Text

door Sierra DeVries

Betty Juiña

of power, such as crown, castle, court, parliament, army, mansion, gown, beauty, banquet, art, poet, romance, duke, servant, peasant, traitor and governor

Middle English (1100 - circa 1500 ad)

The Canterbury Tales

Famous collection of stories

Give us an idea of what life was like in fourteenth century England.

Fifteenth to eighteenth

Great Vowl Shit

vowels shifted upwards

Sound change affecting the long vowels of English

1200

Middle English

fFrench

Old English

English was being spoken instead of written

England and France had split

1066 dc

Duke of Normandy William the Conqueror

brought his nobles

English language was considered vulgar tongue

Latin used for written

They spoke French, was the language of the court, administration and culture

Became king

invaded England

Saxon, Anglos and Jutes

Mixed their different Germanic dialects.

Forms Old English or Anglo-Saxon

Old English (450 - 1100 ad)

Written works

old English

Most famous

Beowulf

was written in Britain

878 ad

Got many Norse words into the language

sky, egg, cake, skin, leg, window (wind eye), husband, fellow, skill, anger, flat, odd, ugly, get, give, take, raise, call, die, they, their, them.

Vikings invaded the country

Being Scandinavian spoke Old Norse

597 ad

St.Augustine arrive

Introduction of Christianity

Into Saxon England brought Latin words came from the Greek

Church bishop, baptism, monk, eucharist an presbyter

Romans broughy Latin to Britain

win (wine), candel (candle), belt (belt), weall (wall)

Words passed for Roman merchants an soldiers

Three Germanic tribes came to British Islands

Were warlike and pushed out most of the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants from England

One group migrated to the Brittany Coast of France

Descendants still speak

Celtic Language of Breton today.