Check if you have access via personal or institutional login An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal. The ...

Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old ... Choice "The intermittent discussion in chapters 2-6 of the ways a noun-heavy language creates ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one ... and spoke their own language, which gave rise to the English spoken today. The Anglo-Saxons also brought their own religious beliefs, but ...

Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation ... "You can read the poem as coding; the language is formulaic in its narrative," he says.

In these sources it is clear that French was becoming the main language used at court and ... English legal system by the Normans. Although Anglo-Saxon England had a sophisticated legal system ...