What are the differences between the Angle-Saxon language and the English language?

Question

Could you show some examples of differences?

Answer 1

Check this site for Anglo-Saxon and modern English translation:

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html

They are really different, and yet you can just about make out that it's still a kind of English! Most of the common words we use today are of Anglo-Saxon origin, though most of the long words are from Latin and Greek.

Answer 2

Modern English is a descendant of Anglo-Saxon. In fact, the only descendant of Anglo-Saxon unless you want to consider Scots a separate language. Just a few people do.

However, Old English was more inflected than modern English, much like Latin and much like German and Icelandic are today.
Anglo-Saxon had few of the Latinate words that exist in modern English and only a few loan words from French compared to the thousands which are in English today.

The Old English spoke their language probably much the same way that the Germans speak German and the Dutch speak Dutch, with a lot of gutteral sounds. Old English was a Teutonic (Germanic) language.

German is still relatively close to what Anglo-Saxon was like but an even better example, in some ways, is Icelandic. Get a look at Icelandic and you will have a good idea of what Anglo-Saxon was like too.

Answer 3

Most Anglo Saxon words are in the English language. Anglo Saxon words are usually short. Some words such as ton meaning hill, ham meaning a place are only found in place names
There is an on-line Anglo Saxon dictionary at http://dontgohere.nu/oe/as-bt/index.htm