Old English
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They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He speaks Old English and is illiterate, though his culture is rich in poetry and heroic tales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The manuscript, now housed in the National Central Library of Rome, includes Caedmon's Hymn, a short Old English poem believed to have been composed more than 1,300 years ago.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Lal wrote back with superlatives of his own about Lawson, borrowing another word that Gandhi’s grandfather had often used, an Old English term for advocate, or follower:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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