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Contents.

A.D.		page
	Old English Pronouns	23
	Old English Verbs	24
	Letters cast out or put in	25
	Exchange of letters	26
	Prepositions still used in the old way	27
	The use of man - English Negation	28
	The Verb - The Article	29
	The Verb do prefixed to other Verbs	30
	Adverbial Idioms	31
	Corruption of words - Loss of Accents	32
	Alliterative Poetry	33
	It still keeps its hold on us	34

the old english, 680-1120.

the middle english, 1120-1300.


	Northumbrian English	35
680.	Cadmon's Runes on the Ruthwell Cross	36
737.	Another piece of Cadmon's	37
800.	The Northern Psalter	38
	Its peculiarities	39
876.	The Norse Settlement in England	40
	Its abiding influence	41
900.	The Rushworth Gospels	42
	Southern and Northern English contrasted	43
924.	King Edward's Conquests	44
941.	The Five Danish Burghs	45
954.	Eadred becomes the One King of England	46
	The Danish influence on New English	47
970.	The Lindisfarne Gospels	48
	Southern and Northern English contrasted	49
	Norse corruptions	50
1066.	The French Conquest	51
1090.	The Legend of St. Edmund	52

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