About “Ormulum”
The Ormulum, also known as the Orrmulum, is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm. It consists of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse. The text is notable for its unique phonemic orthography, which preserves details of English pronunciation from a time when the language was changing after the Norman Conquest of 1066. This makes the Ormulum an important resource for scholars studying the development of the English language. It is a collection of metrical sermons. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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