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Britain around the year 800

  • Northumbrian, spoken north of the river Humber

 

  • Mercian, spoken in the midlands

 

  • Kentish, spoken in Kent (in the far south-eastern part of the island)

 

  • West Saxon, spoken in the southwest

Prob. date

 Northumbrian Mercian

West Saxon

Kentish
675

  • Franks Casket inscription

      
700

  • Ruthwell Cross inscription
  • Epinal glosses
  • Charters
 		   
725

  • Person and place-names in Bede

  • Cædmon’s Hymn

  • Bede's Death Song

  • Person and place-names in Bede

  • Charters

    
750

  • Leiden Riddle

  • Charters

  

  • Charters
775  

  • Blickling glosses

  • Erfurt glosses

  • Charters

  
  • Charters
800  
  • Corpus glosses
    
825  

  • Vespasian Psalter glosses

  • Lorica Prayer

  • Lorica glosses

  
  • Charters
850    
  • Charters

  • Charters

  • Medicinal recipes
875    

  • Charters

  • Royal genealogies

  • Martyrolo-gies

  
900    
  • Cura pastoralis
  • Anglo-Saxon
    Chronicle
  
925    

  • Orosius

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  
950  

  • Royal glosses

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  • Medicinal recipes

  • Charters

  • Kentish Hymn

  • Kentish Psalm

  • Kentish proverb glosses
975

  • Rushworth Gospel glosses

  • Lindisfarne Gospel glosses

  • Durham Ritual glosses

  • Rushworth Gospel glosses

    
 

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Table: David Crystal. The Stories of English. Penguin Book, 2005.
 
 
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