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  1. Gerneral name for the range of dialects
  2. spoken by Germanic settlers in England
  3. between the fifth and eleventh centuries AD.
  4. The literature of the period includes
  5. Beowulf, an epic in West Saxon dialect,
  6. shorter poems of melancholic dignity such as
  7. The Wanderer and The Seafarer, and prose
  8. chronicles, Bible translations, spells, and
  9. charms.
  10.