The Last Kingdom - Anglo-Saxon Words Still In Use Today

Early English roots trace back to the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries resulting in Old English being mainly Germanic. Of the most common 1000 words in use in English today 83% are of Anglo-Saxon origin. This video was inspired by the Netflix show, The Last Kingdom. The images used in the video are all in the public domain. Some of the photographic content is 'licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.' Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_English_origin https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-the-Anglo-Saxons-Created-the-English-Language-We-Know-Today | https://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/words/letter_a.htm