What's the Difference between Old English, Middle English and Modern English?

Old, Middle and Modern English how do they compare? What's are the vocabulary and grammar differences. What historical events caused these changes.

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Selected bibliography (affiliate links)
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
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Stories of English by David Crystal
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A Short History of English Literature
https://amzn.to/4o6EWqK by B. Ifor Evans
The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer
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Borrowed Words
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by Philip Durkin

PHOTO CREDITS
By Hel-hama - Own work
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By Diliff - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

00:00 A Lif-wynn
00:32 Old English
05:51 Old English Grammar
08:40 Compound words
11:03 Kennings
11:53 Middle English
13:48 Viking Influence
15:08 French Influence
17:20 What Middle English sounded like
17:53 French vocabulary
20:00 What happened to the Old English Words?
21:00 Early Modern English
21:41 The Great Vowel Shift (GVS)
24:50 The Renaissance
25:45 Modern English