#Old English

Author: Jenny List / Source: Hackaday When you grow up with something as the constant backdrop to your life, it’s easy to forget as an adult that not everyone else shares your instinctive knowledge of the subject. My dad is a blacksmith, he’s now retired, but as I was growing up his very active

Source: Neatorama For having given birth to the modern English language, you would think that Old English – the now defunct language spoken in medieval Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers – would have a lot of surviving written records. But in case of original manuscripts of poetry in Old