She did indeed go to Harvard, where she majored in English and delighted in reading Chaucer in Old English.
However, the Old English "hund" later became "hound" but eventually was replaced by "dog," not a cognate.
Indeed, sir, did you learn the Old English system or the Sullivan system?
They never call themselves, as may be believed, "Old English."
That this was what afterwards befell, we learn from the Old English poem Widsith.
The instruments of this maker are among the best of the Old English school.
She dropped an Old English grammar and a copy of "Beowulf" into her suit-case.
In the Old English, the form man often lost the -n, and became me.
On Christmas evening we were supposed to be specially festive in the Old English fashion.
There is no evidence that he had any special interest in Old English studies.
The English language from the fifth century until about 1150. In the fifth century, the Angles and Saxons of Germany settled in Britain and established their language in the southern part of the island — the region that was called “Angle-land,” or “England.” After 1150, the Norman French language introduced after the Norman Conquest influenced Old English, and Middle English developed.
Note: Old English resembles the language spoken in Germany in the same period and is impossible for a present-day user of English to read without training. Beowulf is written in Old English.
