Old and Gold English Literature

Our oldest English literature is written in the language spoken by the Angles and the Sazons. This at first sight looks like a strange tongue to one conversant with modern English only but the language that we employ to day has the framework, the bone and sinew, of the earlier tongue. Modern English is no more unlike Anglo Sazon than a boarded man is unlike his former childish self. A few examples will show the likeness and the difference.