The History of the English Language

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Across
  1. 2. A now-dead language which strongly influenced Middle and Modern English (5)
  2. 8. The group of Germanic people who established Old English in England (5-6)
  3. 10. The English playwright who added many new words to Early Modern English (11)
  4. 12. The language of the government following the Norman Conquest (5)
  5. 13. "______ Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (10)
Down
  1. 1. The pestilence which killed approximately one third of the English population from 1349-1350 (5-5)
  2. 3. One of four Old English dialects (7)
  3. 4. One of four dialects of Old English (7)
  4. 5. The ancestor of most European languages: "Proto-________" (4-8)
  5. 6. The king who commissioned the translation of the Bible into English in 1604 (5)
  6. 7. Name of the Norman leader who became England's king in 1066: "William the ___" (9)
  7. 9. The group of Scandinavian warriors who brought Old Norse to England (7)
  8. 11. The name of the man who developed the printing press (6)