English owes much to its Anglo Saxon origins. Listen to the voices of rogues, knights and fops as they chart the history of the language. The Anglo-Saxons - A brief introduction to the origins of ...
They replaced the Roman stone buildings with their own wooden ones, and spoke their own language, which gave rise to the English spoken today. The Anglo-Saxons also brought their own religious ...
Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry ... Choice "The intermittent discussion in chapters 2-6 of the ways a noun-heavy ...
Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation ... "You can read the poem as coding; the language is formulaic in its narrative," he says.