Old English literature

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Old English literature

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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 Simple English Wikipedia has 13.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Old English literature”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1947 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2906 in December 2022
  • Global: #3532 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #25117 in December 2022
  • 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
95.127
2English (en)
Old English literature
87.9842
3German (de)
Altenglische Literatur
49.5126
4Hebrew (he)
ספרות אנגלית עתיקה
49.2026
5Norwegian (no)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
48.6714
6Indonesian (id)
Sastra Inggris Kuno
48.2942
7Romanian (ro)
Literatura anglo-saxonă
47.9816
8Danish (da)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
45.8658
9Greek (el)
Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία
29.8935
10Spanish (es)
Literatura anglosajona
29.5917
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Old English literature" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Old English literature
2 848 773
2Spanish (es)
Literatura anglosajona
246 741
3Indonesian (id)
Sastra Inggris Kuno
199 521
4German (de)
Altenglische Literatur
88 496
5Russian (ru)
Древнеанглийская литература
83 027
6Arabic (ar)
الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني
19 893
7Norwegian (no)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
19 166
8Dutch (nl)
Oudengelse literatuur
18 801
9Romanian (ro)
Literatura anglo-saxonă
16 948
10French (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.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Old English literature" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Old English literature
8 069
2Russian (ru)
Древнеанглийская литература
174
3Spanish (es)
Literatura anglosajona
141
4German (de)
Altenglische Literatur
96
5Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
86
6Indonesian (id)
Sastra Inggris Kuno
62
7Norwegian (no)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
57
8French (fr)
Littérature vieil-anglaise
47
9Hungarian (hu)
Angolszász irodalom
39
10Dutch (nl)
Oudengelse literatuur
36
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Old English literature" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Old English literature
310
2German (de)
Altenglische Literatur
87
3Russian (ru)
Древнеанглийская литература
55
4Norwegian (no)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
42
5Spanish (es)
Literatura anglosajona
32
6French (fr)
Littérature vieil-anglaise
22
7Galician (gl)
Literatura anglosaxoa
22
8Hungarian (hu)
Angolszász irodalom
16
9Danish (da)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
14
10Norwegian (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.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Old English literature" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Old English literature
4
2Arabic (ar)
الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني
0
3Catalan (ca)
Literatura anglosaxona
0
4Danish (da)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
0
5German (de)
Altenglische Literatur
0
6Greek (el)
Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία
0
7Spanish (es)
Literatura anglosajona
0
8Persian (fa)
ادبیات انگلیسی باستان
0
9French (fr)
Littérature vieil-anglaise
0
10Galician (gl)
Literatura anglosaxoa
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

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

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الأدب الأنجلوساكسوني
caCatalan
Literatura anglosaxona
daDanish
Angelsaksisk litteratur
deGerman
Altenglische Literatur
elGreek
Παλαιά αγγλική λογοτεχνία
enEnglish
Old English literature
esSpanish
Literatura anglosajona
faPersian
ادبیات انگلیسی باستان
frFrench
Littérature vieil-anglaise
glGalician
Literatura anglosaxoa
heHebrew
ספרות אנגלית עתיקה
hrCroatian
Anglosaska književnost
huHungarian
Angolszász irodalom
idIndonesian
Sastra Inggris Kuno
nlDutch
Oudengelse literatuur
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Angelsaksisk litteratur
noNorwegian
Angelsaksisk litteratur
roRomanian
Literatura anglo-saxonă
ruRussian
Древнеанглийская литература
simpleSimple English
Old English literature
trTurkish
Eski İngiliz edebiyatı

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#25117
12.2022
Global:
#53327
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2906
12.2022
Global:
#3532
10.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Old English literature from Wikipedia articles about Old English, Beowulf, English literature, Nowell Codex and Exeter book. Whereas reading the article about Old English literature people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Cædmons Hymn, Beowulf, Old English, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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