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Alphabets - раздел Иностранные языки, Old English Period in the History of the English Language. Old English Written Records The First Old English Written Records Are Considered To Be The Runic ...

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 Germanic Alphabet.

Runes/Runic Alphabet:

appeared in the 3^rd – 4^th c. A.D.;

it was also called Futhark (after the first 6 letters of this alphabet);

the word “rune” meant “secret, mystery” and was used to denote magic inscriptions on objects made of wood, stone, metal;

each symbol indicated a separate sound (one symbol = one sound);

the symbols were angular due to the fact that they had to be carved on hard materials;

the number of symbols: GB – 28-33; on the continent – 16-24).

See the copy of the alphabet (additional information)

Best known Runic Inscriptions:

Franks Casket – a box with 4 sides made of whale bone, each side contained a picture in the centre and runic inscriptions around the picture that told the story of the whale bone in alliterative verse.

Ruthwell Cross –was found near thevillage of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, it is a 15 feet tall stone cross ornamented in all sides with runic inscriptions that are actually a passage from a religious poem “The Dream of the Rood”.

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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

Old English Dialects
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Old English Manuscripts
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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