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The British Library: Words for time travellers - 0 views

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Become a language time traveller, travelling back in time to explore the history of the English language.Having looked at the Language timeline  and the Written word timeline, try out these activities and learn how our language has been changing constantly over past centuries.  Anglo-Saxon word play   Beowulf - page 1  
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British Library: Beowulf - read and listen - 0 views

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G5_voices english_language literature anglo-saxons beowulf

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Includes audio of someone reading the original Beowulf.... "This exercise will show you how English was written and spoken a thousand years ago. At first the words may seem completely unfamiliar. But, look closely, and you'll find plenty of links to the modern English of today. This passage is from the epic tale of Beowulf, a tale told around winter fires on long evenings in Britain in the Dark Ages. The manuscript shown here is 1000 years old; blackened edges to the pages are the result of a fire in the Cotton Library in 1731. But the story of Beowulf is 2 or perhaps 3 centuries older."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Includes audio of someone reading the original Beowulf.... "This exercise will show you how English was written and spoken a thousand years ago. At first the words may seem completely unfamiliar. But, look closely, and you'll find plenty of links to the modern English of today. This passage is from the epic tale of Beowulf, a tale told around winter fires on long evenings in Britain in the Dark Ages. The manuscript shown here is 1000 years old; blackened edges to the pages are the result of a fire in the Cotton Library in 1731. But the story of Beowulf is 2 or perhaps 3 centuries older."</div>

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British Library: Beowulf - 0 views

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G5_voices english_language literature anglo-saxons beowulf

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This is the only known manuscript of Beowulf, and dates from c.1000. However, the poem is much older than this manuscript - some historians believe it might date right back to c.750.
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Katie Day on 02 Mar 10

Enlarged image of Beowulf manuscript along with activities for students to explore the language of the poem and how English has changed -- includes an audio clip of someone reading the original text

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Enlarged image of Beowulf manuscript along with activities for students to explore the language of the poem and how English has changed -- includes an audio clip of someone reading the original text</div>

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