Due to Alfred's education programs, most of the existing laws, poems, songs and stories were in West Saxon, dialect of his Wessex.

由于阿尔弗雷德的教育计划，大多数现有的法律、诗歌、歌曲和故事都是用西撒克逊语（他的威塞克斯方言）写的。

Over time, four major dialects of Old English gradually emerged: Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the southeast.

随着时间的推移，逐渐出现了四种主要的古英语方言：英格兰北部的诺森伯兰语、中部地区的默西亚语、南部和西部的西撒克逊语以及东南部的肯特语。

It was probably originally written in Northumbria, although the single manuscript that has come down to us (which dates from around 1000) contains a bewildering mix of Northumbrian, West Saxon and Anglian dialects.

它最初可能是在诺森比亚写成的， 尽管流传到我们手上的唯一一份手稿（可追溯到 1000 年左右）包含令人眼花缭乱的诺森比亚方言、西撒克逊方言和盎格鲁方言。

The main dialect regions during this time are usually referred to as Northern, Midlands, Southern and Kentish, although they were really just natural developments from the Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon and Kentish dialects of Old English.

这一时期的主要方言地区通常被称为北部、中部、南部和肯特语， 尽管它们实际上只是古英语的诺森伯兰、麦西亚、西撒克逊和肯特语方言的自然发展。