Year 0: English didn't exist + British Isles inhabited by "the Celtics" ==> Creation of English = result of invasions.
Major invader (-100 AD) = Julius Caesar. ==> Roman mixed their language (latin) with Celtic.
Then, had been christianised by St Patrick.
1st main invasion = () 5th and 10th century ==> Saxons who invaded "Britannia." (Angles and the Jutes did too)
2nd wave of invasion = started in the 8th century ==> people from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They settled in the North of England (Scotland), South of Ireland and East of England = The Vikings
Old English collapsed + became another language around 1200.
Year 0: English didn't exist + British Isles inhabited by "the Celtics" ==> Creation of English = result of invasions.
Major invader (-100 AD) = Julius Caesar. ==> Roman mixed their language (latin) with Celtic.
Then, had been christianised by St Patrick.
1st main invasion = () 5th and 10th century ==> Saxons who invaded "Britannia." (Angles and the Jutes did too)
2nd wave of invasion = started in the 8th century ==> people from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They settled in the North of England (Scotland), South of Ireland and East of England = The Vikings
Old English collapsed + became another language around 1200.