The Word Hord by Hannah Viden

Old english is the language you think you know, until you actually hear or see it. It may as well be a foreign language to englis speakers to day. As with any foreign language, we learn old English with study, practice and ideally a good teacher. We start off by reading one of our listeners who joined us at beowulf for this week's show. The first poem was written in ancient anglo-saxon but has now been translated into modern English. Now let's talk about hord - that very mombular yo an anglo saxon word a day on twitter. Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from.

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