History of English

2. LIST OF CONTENTS
3.INTRODUCTION
4.MOMENTS AND EVENTS DURING OLD
ENGLISH
5.CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS OF OLD ENGLISH
6.TIMELINE OF OLD ENGLISH OR ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
7.HISTORICAL KEY EVENTS
8.HISTORICAL KEY EVENTS
9.MAJOR EVENTS DURING OLD ENGLISH PERIOD
10.INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY
11.SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE
12.THE DIALECTS OF OLD ENGLISH
13.THE DIALECTS OF OLD ENGLISH
14.THE DIALECTS OF OLD ENGLISH

3. INTRODUCTION
• OLD ENGLISH AN ANCESTOR
• OLD ENGLISH TIME PERIOD IS FROM 450-1150
• TWO MAJOR EVENTS DURING OLD ENGLISH
• ANOTHER NAME IS ANGLO-SAXON OF OLD ENGLISH
• GROUP OF WEST GERMANIC LANGUAGES
• WRITING SYSTEM WAS RUNIC, LATER LATIN AND TWO FORMS

4. MOMENTS AND EVENTS DURING OLD
ENGLISH
• INFLUENCE OF CELTIC WORDS
• TRANSFORMATION OF LANGUAGES
• WARS OF ROSES WHICH BEGINS AT 1455
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIRTH AT 1564
• DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER PLOT AND GUY FAWKES
• PLAGUE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND
• SEALING OF MAGNA CARTA

5. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS OF OLD ENGLISH
• PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN SPOKEN IN BALTIC AREA
• CELTIC BECOMES MOST WIDESPREAD BRANCH ON EUROPE
• CELTIC BRITONS BECOME ROMANIZED
• NORMAN CONQUEST OF 1066
• SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACTS FROM 1530 ONWARDS

6. TIMELINE OF OLD ENGLISH OR ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
• THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD STRETCHED OVER 600 YEARS, FROM
410 TO 1066 AD.
• IN THAT TIME BRITAIN'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE UNDERWENT
MANY CHANGES
• MOST OF THE INFORMATION WE HAVE ABOUT THE ANGLO-
SAXONS COMES FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, A YEAR-
BY-YEAR ACCOUNT OFALL THE MAJOR EVENTS OF THE TIME.
• IT DESCRIBES THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BISHOPS AND KINGS
AND THE IMPORTANT BATTLES OF THE PERIOD.

7. HISTORICAL KEY EVENTS
• LATE 6TH CENTURY
• 7TH CENTURY
• 673
• 700
• LATE 8TH CENTURY
• EARLY 9TH CENTURY
• MID 9TH CENTURY

8. HISTORICAL KEY EVENTS
• LATE 9TH CENTURY
• 10TH CENTURY
• 1000
• EARLY 11TH CENTURY
• MID 11TH CENTURY
• 1066

9. MAJOR EVENTS DURING OLD ENGLISH
PERIOD
THERE WERE TWO MAJOR EVENTS DURING OLD
ENGLISH PERIOD. THEY ARE:
• INTRO TO CHRISTIANITY
• SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE

10. INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY
• THE ROMAN PERIOD
• ANGLO SAXON INVASION
• “THERE IS A TIDE” (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)
• BENEDICT BISHOP

11. SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE
•THE VIKINGS
•HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
•VIKINGS LANGUAGE

12. THE DIALECTS OF OLD ENGLISH
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ORIGINAL TRIBE AND
LATER ENGLISH DIALECT IS AS FOLLOWS:
GERMANIC TRIBES AND REGIONS IN
ENGLAND WHERE THEY MAINLY
SETTLED:
• SAXONS — SOUTH OF THE THAMES
(WEST SAXON AREA)
• ANGLES — MIDDLE AND NORTHERN
ENGLAND (MERCIAAND NORTH
UMBRIA), INCLUDING LOWLAND
SCOTLAND
• JUTES — SOUTH-EAST OF
ENGLAND (KENT)

13. IN IRISH MONASTERIES, A FORM OF THE LATIN ALPHABET (UNCIAL
SCRIPT) EVOLVED WHICH WAS LATER ADAPTED AND USED IN
ENGLISH MONASTERIES FOR COPYING TEXTS IN LATIN AND LATER
IN ENGLISH.

14. THE GREATEST POEM OF THE TIME WAS BEOWULF. THE
EARLIEST SAMPLES OF CONTINUOUS PROSE ARE THE FIRST
PAGES OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES