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ANGLO SAXON LANGUAGE CHANGE INVASIONS • Roman Empire falls – British provinces cut loose • Celtic tribes begin to invade along with Anglo-Saxon tribes • Celtic languages develop but do not prevail with the presence of Anglo-Saxon culture RUNES • Before the introduction of Christianity • Symbols for writing messages • Means “secret” or “mystery” • Believed if used in the right order they have magical powers • Some runes meant: Wealth/cattle, water, giant, corn, journey, illness, gift, joy, hail, need, ice , harvest, fate, elk, sun, birch, horse, man, lake, inheritance Try writing your name in runes! OLD ENGLISH • Musical language • Very different from the English we speak today • Scholars and specialists are the only people who can read it today http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/language _timeline/index_embed.shtml HOW IT BECAME TRANSCRIBED • Around 600 AD Christian missionaries arrive • Begin first bits of literacy • No standard system of spelling, write the way things sounded • Adopted Latin alphabet to fit Old English sounds in that part of the country • Developed Old English dialects • Northumbrian – North • Mercian- the midlands • West-Saxon – South & West ( most documents written in this dialect because they were politically prestigious in Wessex) • Kentish – South East SIMILARITIES • Simple every-day words: • An – One • Family Words: • Twa – two • Faeder – Father • Threo – three • Modor – mother • Feower – four • Dohtor- Daughter • Aeppel – apple • Hund- hound SIMILARITIES (CONTIN.) • Parts of the body: • Heorte- heart • Fot – foot • Vowel Changes/ Tenses: • Sing/Sang/Sung = singan/ sang/ sungen FUN FACT! • The Anglo-Saxons were a pagan race and traces still remain in the names of four days of the week: • Tuesday - Tiw • Wednesday –Woden • Thursday –Thor • Friday – Frig (Thor’s Wife) SCOPS • Singers who used the language to sing/tell stories • Sometimes made things up as they went along • Accompanied their tales with harps WORD PLAY • Anglo-Saxon people loved word games • Famous riddle book is called The Exeter Book • Two kinds • Writing from the object’s perspective • Describing the object
