9L Old English Literature [Interactive Wayground Task]

Which group brought Old English to Britain?

• Vikings

• Germanic

• Normans

• Romans

What significant linguistic change occurred in English after the Norman Invasion of 1066?

• English adopted a massive amount of French and Latin vocabulary.

• English became a Romance language.

• Old English was completely replaced by French.

• English grammar became identical to Latin grammar.

The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as:

• Frisian

• Gothic

• Anglo-Saxon

• Old Norse

To which language family does Old English belong?

• Romance language family

• Celtic language family

• Germanic language family

• Latin language family

In the Germanic language family, how did words starting with 'P' in Old English typically behave compared to German?

• They systematically shifted to an 'F' sound.

• They systematically shifted to a 'PF' sound.

• They remained unchanged as 'P'.

• They systematically shifted to a 'B' sound.

Which language group contributed words like "skirt" and "skull" to English?

• French

• Celtic

• Latin

• Old Norse (Vikings)

What is known about Proto-Germanic?

• It was a written language spoken around 500 CE.

• It is a reconstructed common ancestor of English, Swedish, and German, spoken around 500 BCE.

• It was the language of Beowulf.

• It is a modern dialect of German.

Where was Proto-Indo-European spoken approximately 6,000 years ago?

• In ancient Rome.

• On the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Russia.

• In the British Isles.

• In ancient Greece.