As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.

The Old English versions of Orosius's Histories against the Pagans and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People are no longer accepted by scholars as Alfred's own translations because of lexical and stylistic differences.

Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology.

The Alfred jewel, discovered in Somerset in 1693, has long been associated with King Alfred because of its Old English inscription " AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN " ( Alfred ordered me to be made ).

These scholars have claimed this element represents an Old English word amor, the name of a woodland bird.

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

Theodism, or Þéodisc Geléafa ( Old English: " tribal belief ") is another form of Germanic neopaganism that developed in the United States contemporaneous with Asatru.

The Old English Rune Poem as recorded was likely composed in the 8th or 9th century and was preserved in the 10th century manuscript Cotton Otho B. x, fol.

* The Rune Poem ( Old English ), ed.

Old Arabic Love Poem on Persian Carpet: When Laura comes to see Alec at his friend's flat, there is a Middle Eastern rug hung on the wall.

The Old English Runic Poem contains these obscure lines:

Other translations include William N. Porter, A Hundred Verses from Old Japan ( 1909 ); Clay MacCauley, Hyakunin-isshu ( Single Songs of a Hundred Poets ) ( 1917 ); Tom Galt, The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each ( 1982 ); Joshua S. Mostow, Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image ( 1996 ); Peter McMillan, One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each ( 2008 ); and Emiko Miyashita and Michael Dylan Welch, 100 Poets: Passions of the Imperial Court ( 2008 ).

The Rhyming Poem, also written as The Riming Poem, is a poem of 87 lines found in the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of Old English poetry.

The Old English Riming Poem.

" The Old English Riming Poem: Interpretation, Text and Translation.

* Olsen, Alexandra H. " Subtractive Rectification in the Old English Riming Poem.

* Olsen, Alexandra H. " The Heroic World: Icelandic Sagas and the Old English Riming Poem.

" The Old English Ryming Poem: A Ruler ’ s Lament.

* Poem: Advice To An Old Man of Sixty Three About To Marry a Girle of Sixteen

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Among Williams ' poems are " Revenge ," " Poem ," " Poet ," " The Last Supper " and " I Sing an Old Song ," " The City's Face ".

* The Dream of the Rood: an Old English Poem attributed to Cynewulf, edited by Cook ( 1905 )

It is a revival of the Old Norse name, but whereas this language is usually rendered in its Latin spelling, curiously, in this case a transliteration of the spelling on a rune stone has been preferred.

The related Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas.

Old English borrowed Latin Y to write the native Old English sound ( previously written with the rune yr ).

Sigrún ( Old Norse " victory rune ") is a valkyrie in Norse mythology.

As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called æsc (" ash tree ") after the Anglo-Saxon futhorc rune (), which it transliterated ; its traditional name in English is still ash.

While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph < uu >, scribes soon borrowed the rune wynn w () for this purpose.

The Western letter ( expressing / kʰ /, and later / x /) was adopted into the Old Italic alphabets, and its shape is also continued into the Algiz rune of the Elder Futhark.

Most of the Old Norse poetry that survives was preserved in Iceland, but there are also 122 preserved poems in Swedish rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish.

The rune alphabets used by the Germanic peoples were also named acrophonically ; for example, the first three letters, which represented the sounds / f, u, þ /, were named fé, ur, þurs in Norse ( wealth, slag / rain, giant ) and feoh, ur, þorn in Old English ( wealth, ox, thorn ).

The bind rune was designed by Wiligut, and spells " Got " the Old High German word for God.

The rune poems have been theorized as having been mnemonic devices that allowed the user to remember the order and names of each letter of the alphabet and may have been a catalog of important cultural information, memorably arranged ; comparable with the Old English sayings, Gnomic poetry, and Old Norse poetry of wisdom and learning.

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The Fe rune < big ></ big > ( Old Norse fé ; Old English feoh ) represents the f-sound in the Younger Futhark and Futhorc alphabets.

Such correspondence between all rune poems and the Gothic letter name, as well, is uncommon, and gives the reconstructed name of the Old Futhark a high degree of certainty.

* The Old Norse name of the k rune ; see Kaunan