The Old English Period (1 янв 428 г. – 1 янв 1066 г.)
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Even called as Anglo Saxon, anglo means England in Latin, Saxon was a type of people living in England. It's a West Germanic dialect. Around the year 450 AD Vikings invaded the island of England.
vikings/old Norse impact
core vocabulary, town names.
Germanic tribes Angles, Saxons, Jutes (Göta)
Beowulf is the oldest epic written in Old English.
It has over 3000 lines about a hero from southern Sweden who fights monsters to bring safety to his own and other people.
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