There’s plenty of ON but it’s not half. Old English would account for a majority along with Norman French. There are many cognate words though between OE and ON.
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Yes of course Im being hyperbole, tough Norman French I would assume is Old Norse and French combined somehow considering the Normans were French? (Genuinly curious) Even the name England literally means Meadowcountry in scandinavian countries
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There are some Scandinavian terms that come into English via French but no, French still is the second largest influx of words into English, and OE still makes up a majority of words. Norman French wasn’t really a combination of ON and OF, although certainly ON made an impact.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @KnightlyTim and
England is quite literally “Land of the Angles”, which was its meaning in OE. “Enga londe”.
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All of this is very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Now curious to know where the term ”Äng/Eng” i.e ”Meadow” originates from (do you happen to know?) Ängel = Angel
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Umm no. Angle/Anglian was an ethnonym the inhabitants used to describe themselves (and to a lesser extent Saxon was also used), Anglisc was used to describe the language, and English is basically the modern term derived from Anglisc. It has nothing to do with Christianity.
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Gotcha. This is great. Faith restored in twitter
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No problem, glad to clear anything up.
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Random question Beowulf considered essential part of anglo saxon culture/literature, but since its about a Geatish bloke running around doing Gestish stuff, does some people thinks its an older poem/tale being written down? What makes it anglo saxon except OE?
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Well it’s not Anglo-Saxon, it’s Old English. Anglo-Saxon is not a commonly used term at the time, only used in some law codes. Anyway, there’s a lot written on Beowulf and it’s not my specialty but it’s basically a heroic past. The English still felt a connection 1/2
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With their perceived origins. Now, I’m of the opinion that it was written in the 8th or 9th centuries for various reasons that are hard to get into but possibly it was based on older stories. But it is not the only OE tale set in a heroic past, Widsith is similar in that regard.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @KnightlyTim and
Part of their ethnogenesis or origin of the peoples is based on them moving to Britain from the continent, and even if this is inaccurate (given the migration/invasion was likely very small numbers of people and not only from Anglia, Saxony, Jutland) that was what they thought.
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So the poem does not come from the Geats in the late Iron Age, although perhaps some oral stories survive in Beowulf in some manner, although I suspect they are much changed, and we would have no way of knowing regardless.
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