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R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
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Language varieties<br><br>Hi, Lowlanders!<br><br>So this is what the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English">Wikipedia</a> says:<br><p style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">The history of Old English can be subdivided in:</p>
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</div><ul style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><li>Prehistoric Old English (c. 450 to 650); for this period, Old English is mostly a reconstructed language as no literary witnesses survive (with the exception of limited epigraphic evidence).</li>
<li>Early Old English (ca. 650 to 900), the period of the oldest manuscript traditions, with authors such as Cædmon, Bede, Cynewulf and Aldhelm.</li><li>Late Old English (c. 900 to 1066), the final stage of the language leading up to the Norman conquest of England and the subsequent transition to Early Middle English.</li>
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</div><p style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">The Old English period is followed by Middle English (12th to 15th century), Early Modern English (ca. 1480 to 1650) and finally Modern English (after 1650).</p>
<p>This leaves a gap of minimally 35 years between the supposed end of the Old English period and the beginning of the Middle English period. What is that then? "Transitional"?<br></p><p>Aside from this, I find it interesting that Old English and Old Saxon both ended in the 12th century.<br>
</p>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><br><br><font size="2"><span></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font size="2">
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