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the language your ancestors spoke before the french showed up and ruined everyone's spelling.
means the germanic language spoken in england roughly 450 to 1150 ad, ancestor of modern english but unreadable without a translator.
from brought over by angles, saxons, and jutes invading post-roman britain, it evolved from continental west germanic dialects and got its grammar, vocabulary, and vibe steamrolled by french after 1066.
beowulf languagethe epic poem is written entirely in it
grammarhad cases, genders, and endings like german
vocabulary lossnorman conquest replaced most of its words
font myththe blackletter font is not actually old english