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The adjective and the noun also change their forms with the varying cases. In its inflections, Anglo-Saxon resembles its sister language, the modern German. After the first feeling of strangeness has passed away, it is easy to recognize many of the old words. Take, for instance, this from Beowulf: "...ð=y h=e ðone f=eond ofercw=om, gehn=aegde helle g=ast."
And when there came the superbly defiant stanzas which in his youthful barbarian insolence he had calmly plucked from their original position in the poem to form the conclusion of his Lied: Und obgleich alle Teufel Hier wollten wiederstehn, So wird doch ohne Zweifel, Gott nicht zuruecke gehn. Was er ihm vorgenommen, Und was er haben will, Das muss doch endlich Rommen Zu seinem Zweck und Ziel.
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