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Originally Posted by viscus
Without sounding too pedantic, the term "Old English," as agreed upon by linguists, refers to the English spoken prior to the 1066 Norman conquest of England, and bears more resemblance to German and Norse than it does to Modern English.
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Yeah, Old English is Beowulf-era, there's probably a handful of linguists alive that can read it well enough to say they've any knowledge of the language. Elizabethan is Early Modern.