| Old English looks much like German and looks strange to us modern English speakers. |
| The common tongue was by then very different from Old English or Anglo-Saxon. |
| For example, it is unlikely a speaker of Old English would know modern English, but may have a few clues as to the use of words. |
| 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. |
| The dialects of Northumberland have their foundations firmly rooted in Old English Anglo-Saxon, with huge influences from Scandanavia. |
| The Old English poem contains only about eighty instances of anacrusis, for example. |
