| Definition: The written and spoken English that was used between 450 CE and 1100 CE. Note: It is the English of Beowulf.
 The first page of Beowulf. As you can see from the above, Old English is basically Modern English viewed through a mirror. |
| Example: The above is a public domain image from Kip Wheeler's home page at Carson-Wheeler College: "The original image of the Beowulf manuscript comes from the anonymous Anglo-Saxon scribe who wrote the Nowell Codex, Cotton Vitellius A.x.v. 129 r. It appears here as reproduced in Julius Zupitza's Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv. in the British Museum with a Transliteration and Notes. E.E.T.S. O.S. 77. London: Trubner & Co., 1882. This image is public domain." |
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see: Middle English | Modern English
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