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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

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1
Period of time when Old English existed
469 AD - 1066 AD
400 AD - 1000 AD
Anglo-saxon period
500 AD TO 1000 A D
2
Important periods in the English language evolution
Roman conquest and angles invasion
Roman invasion, Anglosaxon conquest, Norman conquest
Germanics
Barbarians
3
The oldest surviving Germanic epic and the longest Old English poem
Beowulf
King Alfred
The Exter book
Beawulf
4
How was the Anglo saxon literature transmited?
by word
recorded
NONE OF THEM
written
5
Main characters in Beowulf
Draco, Moody, Dobby
Hermaine
King Hrothgar, Grendel, the Dragon, Beowulf
Voldermort
6
They are all characteristics of the Old English literature except...
it is oral mostly
it is in verse
Religious
It is in prose
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Thanks to those tribes today England exists
Germanics
Romand
Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Romans
Angles and Saxons