Welcome to the History of English Podcasts, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is Episode 32, the oldest English.

Over the past few episodes, we've looked at the gradual conquest of southern and central

Britain by the Anglo-Saxons.

This time, we're going to begin looking at the Anglo-Saxons in the years at the end,

or near the end of the conquest.

By the end of the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons had established several independent kingdoms

throughout southern and central Britain, and they were speaking a common language.

So in this episode, we'll look at these earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and their language,

which is the oldest form of English.

But before I begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is History of

EnglishPodcast.com.

And a quick note about that other website, the Podbean website.

That's History of EnglishPodcast.podbean.com.

That site is still up, and I'm going to leave it up for now, but eventually, I'm going

to discontinue that site.

So I wanted to give you a heads up if you happen to subscribe to the podcast through

the Podbean site.

Of course, you can always subscribe through iTunes, and you can always listen to the episodes

through the main website, which again is History of EnglishPodcast.com.

So again, just a little note about that as we move forward.

Okay, so let's turn to this episode, to the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

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