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History of the English Language Old English AD 550 - 1150 Middle English AD 1150 - 1500 Early Modern English AD 1500 - 1800 Language: A Window on the Past Political history cravat: Serbo-Croatian History of science disaster: Greek Religious history Easter: Germanic lethal: Greek Origins of English “To Aetius, thrice consul, the groans of the Britons..the barbarians drive us to the sea. The sea drives us back to the barbarians Between the two we are exposed to two sorts of death; we are either slain or drowned.” — Venerable Bede, c. AD 700 Origins of English “A.D. 449 And in their days Vorti