Old English

earliest historical form of English

class=skin-invert-image|thumb|Æ in Helvetica and [[Bodoni]] class=skin-invert-image|thumb|Æ alone and in context

letter of the Latin alphabet

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thumb|right|Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic people look up at the goddess from the realm below.

thumb|upright|Merovingian seaxes

thumb|Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne. thumb|Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin), is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . It was a continued use of the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc runes. Futhorc was the native alphabet of Old English before the Latin alphabet was adopted, and it was a sibling alphabet to the Younger Futhark alphabet that Old Norse

system of runes for Old English

thumb|upright=1.2|A page from the Ormulum demonstrating the editing performed over time by Orrm, as well as the insertions of new readings by "Hand B"

sound change law in the family's language evolution

overview about the Old English grammar

24 letter alphabet used for writing Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries

Old English terms