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Old English Dialects

Old English Dialects - раздел Иностранные языки, Old English Period in the History of the English Language. Old English Written Records Kingdom Kent Wessex Mer...

Kingdom	Kent	Wessex	Mercia	Northumbria
Dialect	Kentish	West Saxon	Mercian	Northumbrian
Spoken	in Kent, Surrey, the Isle of Wight	along the Thames and the Bristol Channel	between the Thames and the Humber	between the Humber and the Forth
Origin	from the tongues of Jutes/ Frisians	a Saxon dialect	a dialect of north Angles	a dialect of south Angles
Remarks		9^th c. – Wessex was the centre of the English culture and politics. West Saxon – the bookish type of language (Alfred the Great – the patron of culture and learning)		8^th c. – Northumbria was the centre of the English culture

The first historian who started to record the history of the Germanic tribes on the British Isles and is considered to be the first English historian is Bede the Venerable, an English monk, who wrote “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People”.

The most important dialect in the Old English period was the WEST SAXON DIALECT.

8. Christianity – 597 (6^th c.)

There were 2 forces that worked together to spread Christianity in Britain:

missioners from Rome (founded the religious centre in Canterbury);

missioners from Ireland (the Celts were already christened).

Consequences:

centralization of the country;

development of the culture and learning (monasteries, schools, etc.); Latin was the language of the church and learning.

9.In the 8^th – 9^th c. Britain was raided and attacked by the Danes/Scandinavians/Vikings.The only king who was able to keep them at bay was Alfred the Great of Wessex. In 878the Treaty of Wedmore was signed and England was divided into Wessex(belonged to Alfred) and Danelaw (belonged to the Danes). But as soon as the Scandinavian dialects also belonged to the Germanic group, the Danes soon linguistically merged into the local Old English dialects leaving some Scandinavian elements in them.

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Historical Background and Linguistic Situation
1. When the first people arrived to Britain 50000 B.C. it was still part of the continent. Later, 5000 B.C., at the end of the Ice Age, Britain became an island

Alphabets
The first Old English written records are considered to be the runic inscriptions.To make these inscriptions people used the Runes/the Runic Alphabet – the first original German

Old English Alphabet
The Old English Alphabet was borrowed from Latin, but there were also some letters that were borrowed from the Runic Alphabet: ? (“thorn”) = [q] and [ð] ? (“wynn”) = [w]

Old English Manuscripts
Most of the Old English manuscripts were written in Latin characters. The Latin Alphabet was modified by the scribes to suit the English language (some letters were changed and some new letters wer

Old English Poetry
1.Among the earliest textual insertions in Old English are the pieces of Old English poetry. They are to be found in “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” writt