Old English
Example Sentences
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This manuscript shows that the original Old English poem was reinserted into the Latin within 100 years of Bede finishing his History.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
As the painter notes: “Woods, from the Old English wode . . . also meaning ‘mad.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
For teachers, it can assist with curriculum writing or be a creative classroom aide, for instance creating introductions in Old English during a class on medieval times.
From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023
It is wiros, meaning man in Indo-European, taken as weraldh in Germanic and weorold in Old English, emerging, flabbergast- ingly, as “world.”
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
