Listen to the tape then answer this question. Why should children thank their mothers? Mother: What's the matter, children?
The epic Beowulf was written in West Saxon, and the earliest English poem Song of Cadmond was written in Northumberland. Modern English mainly comes from Mercia, but Scottish comes from northumberland.
Some short inscriptions in the early days of Old English were written in runes. In the 6th century, Latin letters were adopted and written in the form of semi-informal letters. Including the rune letters Wynn and thorn, and the modified Latin letter ETH? d？ , and ash.
Old English is divided into four dialects: Anglo dialect (Mercia and northumberland) and Saxon dialect, Contos and West Saxon. After the educational reform of King Alfred in the 9th century and the influence of Wessex Kingdom, West Saxon dialect became the standard written language.
Old English is very different from modern English, which is difficult for English users in the 2nd/kloc-0th century to understand. Its next of kin is old Frisian. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs have more inflected endings and forms, and the word order is much freer than modern English.
Pronouns in modern English have a case form, and some verbs are deformed, but old English also has a noun suffix, and verbs are more personal and number suffixes.