Old English
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They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Bede chose not include the original Old English poem in his History, but to translate it into Latin.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Though John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s books are in no way a retelling of “Beowulf,” echoes of the Old English epic occur throughout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Lal wrote back with superlatives of his own about Lawson, borrowing another word that Gandhi’s grandfather had often used, an Old English term for advocate, or follower:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
With the meaning of awareness, it became beodan in Old English, meaning “bode,” and bodhati in Sanskrit, meaning he awakes, is enlightened, and thus Bodhisattva, and Buddha.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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