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Old English
- 1. English - A Historical Summary
- 2. Old English Period
- 3. The languages in England before English: -Stone Age -Bronze Age -Iron Age
- 4. Stone Age - Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age - Neolithic (New Stone) Age
- 5. The Romans in Britain The Roman Conquest The Romanization of the island
- 6. The Latin Language in Britain
- 7. The Germanic Conquest Jutes Saxons Angles
- 9. Map of Anglo-Saxon England
- 10. Anglo-Saxon Civilization - Northumbria -Mercia -East Anglia -Kent -Essex -Sussex -Wessex
- 11. The names “England” and “English” -Saxones -Saxonia -Angli -Anglia -Englisc (English) -Angles (Engle) -Anglecynn
- 12. The origin and position of English
- 13. The periods in the history of English Old Middle Modern
- 14. Water Strong The Of A He No
- 15. The Dialects of Old English -Northumbrian -Mercian -West Saxon -Kentish
- 16. Characteristics of Old English: - Spelling and pronunciations Example. Scip (Ship), Benc (bench) -
- 17. - Vocabulary The vocabulary of old English is almost purely Germanic . A large number of words borrowed from French and Latin.
- 18. Grammar Inflectional language Synthetic Analytic
- 19. Foreign influence on old English literature Latin through Celtic Transmission (Latin Influence of the first period The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary The Scandinavian Invasions of England
- 20. The contact of English with other languages: The Celtic influence Celtic place-names and Other loanwords The Romans Celts The Scan -dinavian English
- 21. Three Latin influences on old English: - It was a language of a highly regarded civilization - For several hundred years , while the Germanic tribes who later became the English were still occupying their continental homes, they had various relation with the Romans through which they acquired a considerable number of Latin words. - And century and half later still, when Roman missionaries reintroduced Christianity into the island, this new culture influence resulted in a quite extensive Latin elements into the language.
- 22. Old English Literature Pagan Christianity
- 23. Great literary works Beowulf Widsith Deor The Wanderer The Seafarer The Ruin The Battle of Brunanburh The Battle of Maldon
- 24. Beowulf
- 25. The End