| Old English has a slightly different alphabet to modern English, including three letters which we don't have. |
| The Old English poem contains only about eighty instances of anacrusis, for example. |
| 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. |
| Old English looks much like German and looks strange to us modern English speakers. |
| The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. |
| In the following, italics are used for words in Swedish, while bold text indicates Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. |
