Old Norse and the English Language. In the late 700s, Norse raiders - the Vikings - invaded the British Isles, ... The river ...

The earliest fragments of English reveal how interconnected Europe has been for centuries, finds Cameron Laux. He traces a history of the language through 10 objects and manuscripts.

Old English was the most spoken language in the British Isles between 550 and 1150, prior to the more familiar – and more comprehensible to the modern reader – Middle English of Chaucer, but not the ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

Bruce Mitchell, 1920-2010 ...