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Episode 32: The Oldest English

The History of English Podcast

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The History of the Angles

The title literally meant the ecclesiastical history of the English people. By this point we have the native old English word Anglkin and the Latin term Anglorum, both referred to all of the Angles' accents. But shortly after the time of Bead the Viking invasions began. And it's at that point as I've mentioned earlier that we start to see the first references to a nation or country of Angles. The term was Anglaland, literally the land of the angles. Of course the name later evolved over time and eventually became England.

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