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It represents the flectional decay which the living and popular English was undergoing.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John

Examples of this are the late semi-Saxon Homilies, in which we see the gradual decay of the old flectional grammar: but the most 27signal examples are the two great poetical works of Layamon and Orm.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John