Old English literature

Old English literature - literature written in Old English in early medieval England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Sometimes called 'Anglo-Saxon'.. Article “Old English literature” in English Wikipedia has 88 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 139 references and 26 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Old English literature” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Old English literature”, its content was written by 310 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1442 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1947 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2216 in October 2002
• Global: #3532 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37344 in February 2012
• Global: #53327 in September 2008

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Angelsaksisk litteratur		95.127
2	English (en) Old English literature		87.9842
3	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		49.5126
4	Hebrew (he) ספרות אנגלית עתיקה		49.2026
5	Norwegian (no) Angelsaksisk litteratur		48.6714
6	Indonesian (id) Sastra Inggris Kuno		48.2942
7	Romanian (ro) Literatura anglo-saxonă		47.9816
8	Danish (da) Angelsaksisk litteratur		45.8658
9	Greek (el) Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία		29.8935
10	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		29.5917

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Old English literature" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old English literature		2 848 773
2	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		246 741
3	Indonesian (id) Sastra Inggris Kuno		199 521
4	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		88 496
5	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийская литература		83 027
6	Arabic (ar) الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني		19 893
7	Norwegian (no) Angelsaksisk litteratur		19 166
8	Dutch (nl) Oudengelse literatuur		18 801
9	Romanian (ro) Literatura anglo-saxonă		16 948
10	French (fr) Littérature vieil-anglaise		15 575

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Old English literature" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old English literature		8 069
2	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийская литература		174
3	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		141
4	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		96
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Angelsaksisk litteratur		86
6	Indonesian (id) Sastra Inggris Kuno		62
7	Norwegian (no) Angelsaksisk litteratur		57
8	French (fr) Littérature vieil-anglaise		47
9	Hungarian (hu) Angolszász irodalom		39
10	Dutch (nl) Oudengelse literatuur		36

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Old English literature" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old English literature		310
2	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		87
3	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийская литература		55
4	Norwegian (no) Angelsaksisk litteratur		42
5	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		32
6	French (fr) Littérature vieil-anglaise		22
7	Galician (gl) Literatura anglosaxoa		22
8	Hungarian (hu) Angolszász irodalom		16
9	Danish (da) Angelsaksisk litteratur		14
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Angelsaksisk litteratur		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Old English literature" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old English literature		4
2	Arabic (ar) الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني		0
3	Catalan (ca) Literatura anglosaxona		0
4	Danish (da) Angelsaksisk litteratur		0
5	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		0
6	Greek (el) Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία		0
7	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		0
8	Persian (fa) ادبیات انگلیسی باستان		0
9	French (fr) Littérature vieil-anglaise		0
10	Galician (gl) Literatura anglosaxoa		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Old English literature" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Old English literature		1 442
2	Catalan (ca) Literatura anglosaxona		78
3	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийская литература		52
4	German (de) Altenglische Literatur		45
5	Spanish (es) Literatura anglosajona		42
6	French (fr) Littérature vieil-anglaise		40
7	Norwegian (no) Angelsaksisk litteratur		36
8	Arabic (ar) الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني		30
9	Dutch (nl) Oudengelse literatuur		30
10	Persian (fa) ادبیات انگلیسی باستان		23

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني
ca	Catalan Literatura anglosaxona
da	Danish Angelsaksisk litteratur
de	German Altenglische Literatur
el	Greek Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία
en	English Old English literature
es	Spanish Literatura anglosajona
fa	Persian ادبیات انگلیسی باستان
fr	French Littérature vieil-anglaise
gl	Galician Literatura anglosaxoa
he	Hebrew ספרות אנגלית עתיקה
hr	Croatian Anglosaska književnost
hu	Hungarian Angolszász irodalom
id	Indonesian Sastra Inggris Kuno
nl	Dutch Oudengelse literatuur
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Angelsaksisk litteratur
no	Norwegian Angelsaksisk litteratur
ro	Romanian Literatura anglo-saxonă
ru	Russian Древнеанглийская литература
simple	Simple English Old English literature
tr	Turkish Eski İngiliz edebiyatı

Best Rank

English: #37344 02.2012

Global: #53327 09.2008

Best Rank

English: #2216 10.2002

Global: #3532 10.2001

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