Fill in the Blanks Old English period (449-1100)Online version The history of English has been influenced by many linguistic and historical aspects. One of the most remarkable periods was the Old English period. In this period, the influence of Germanic tribes and their dialects changed the language profoundly. by ginneth pizarro chacón 1 Jutes strong declensions Angles tribes 449 synthetic Germanic vocabulary analytic Saxons inflected Germanic weak Old English began in ce with the invasion of several . , and invaded the land and changed the language completely . Several important features characterize OE ; some of them are : Old English is , rather than ; the noun , verb , adjective , determiner and pronoun were highly ; there were and of nouns and adjectives . Finally , the was overwhelmingly in character .