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...3, 1807) was an English writer, best known for her [[gothic novel]] "[[The Old English Baron]]" originally published under the title of ''The Champion of Virtue'' ...a Gothic Story", which in the second edition of 1778 was changed to ''The Old English Baron''. Clara Reeve got the inspiration for her book from a gothic novel p

...names tell you the language people spoke then. It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is

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...ruin]]. Also an affliction, curse, evil, ill, plague, scourge or woe, in [[Old English]] 'bana' had a more specific and immediate meaning, of 'slayer', 'murderer.

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'''Old English''', also known as '''Anglo-Saxon''', refers to the [[English language]] as ==History and origin of Old English==

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==Old English Walnut tree==

...two or more). (Other languages may have more than two values. For example, Old English had three possible forms: singular for one, [[dual (grammatical number|dual

Initially, [[Old English]] was a group of dialects reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon ===Old English===

...f bad witchcraft. Someone who practises witchcraft is called a witch (from Old English wicce f. / wicca m.).

'''Beowulf''' is an anonymous [[Old English]] [[epic]] poem of 3182 lines that deals with the deeds of its eponymous pr

...dicate the case of nouns (and thus their relation to one another). In the Old English period, English did possess a full set of noun inflections, but nearly all

...lass-Sided Ants' Nest'' (1968), also published as ''Skin Deep'', and ''The Old English Peep-Show'' (1969), also published as ''A Pride of Heroes''</ref> The setti

...short syllables (e.g., in Latin); some count alliterating words (e.g., in Old English); and some, in languages like Chinese in which words have formalized tones, ...in a line, ignoring how many unstressed syllables occur between them. In [[Old English]] poetry (for example, ''[[Beowulf]]''), there were also rules requiring so

...oting terror or monstrousness, [[cognate]] with the [[Old English language|Old English]] ''maere'' (which survives in the modern English word "nightmare") and the

...ymously under the title ''The Champion of Virtue'' and only in 1778 as The Old English Baron. She was clearly inspired by Walpole's Castle of Otranto. Her novel w * [[Clara Reeve]], ''The Old English Baron'' (1777, originally published as ''The Champion of Virtue'')

...l consonant. One example is the split of original [[Germanic]] * [k] in [[Old English]] [k] and [tʃ] under influence of neighboring vowels, as in the word '

...ables (regardless of whether they are stressed or not) occur in each line; Old English poetry had rules about the number of stressed syllables per line, but did n

...ref>The emergence of the low end-[[Vowel|vowel]] is an equivalent to the [[Old English]] translations of the Germanic ''waltan'' ("to govern", "to possess", "to h