The dialects of Northumberland have their foundations firmly rooted in Old English Anglo-Saxon, with huge influences from Scandanavia. |
The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. |
In the following, italics are used for words in Swedish, while bold text indicates Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. |
Old English looks much like German and looks strange to us modern English speakers. |
Nonetheless, to suggest that Old English as a written language was ever quite dead and buried would be misleading. |
Just read the first page or two and noted that it's much easier to read Old English once you know a bit of Dutch. |