some history and links
Dh and I have been watching a fascinating series called 'The Adventure Of English'."...the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_English
Beowulf is mentioned in it because it helped them to pinpoint which words came into the English language and when [at least I think thats why]. Anyway, I thought you'd enjoy the series, Sandra, and wanted to point it out to you in case you haven't found it yet
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Peace,
Col
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Anglo-Saxon from an SCA research list: This is really cool! An almost nine-minute flash presentation of Old English—reading and pronunciation using the manuscript Laud 636 (the E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/brittene/brittene.htm produced by professor Edwin Duncan. |
which Chaucer used in the 14th century
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
The Paston Letters, at the site of the University of Virginia. 15th century letters of a family in Norfolk. much info |
"Modern" meaning the past 500 years
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