{"id":11198,"date":"2022-03-02T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=201398"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:54:07","slug":"old-english-a-quick-guide","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/old-english-a-quick-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Old English: a quick guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 02 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">The medieval language of Old English is full of linguistic gems. 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