We view Chaucer as an example of Old English, when in reality he uses Middle English, after the Norman conquest, when the language was fully influenced by French terms. Chaucer is understandable ...

English is more of a fluid language ... settled by Scandinavians - for example, in the area that we today sometimes call the ...

As an exhibition in London brings together treasures from Anglo-Saxon England, Cameron Laux traces a history of the language through ... 80% of all surviving Old English verse survives in four ...

Within its weighty two volumes, it organises and analyses in forensic detail the syntactic structures of the Old English language, with numerous examples drawn from prose and poetry. Along with ...