Article Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English (ISSN: 2446-3981), No. 7, 2021. © The Journal Editors Old English Syntax and Its Relation to German: A Comparative Study Freja Bang Lauridsen 1. Introduction One does not have to know much about linguistics to be able to spot a certain resemblance between the predecessor of modern-day English, Old English (OE), a language spoken on the British Isles in the Early Medieval Period, and Present-Day German (PDG), spoken today in countries such as Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland, and the native language of over 100 million people. The resemblance between the two languages – one almost a millennium old, the other one contemporary – has not passed unnoticed by linguists either, and the syntax of the two have often been compared. Due to many shared syntactic traits such as Subject Object Verb (SOV) constituent order, Verb Second (V2), and a complicated inflectional system, German has often been referred to as a present-day version of the now far-gone OE. However, more thorough examination indicates that the two languages differ on important areas, raising important questions about the link between the two. This article intends to discuss the link between the syntax of PDG and the syntax of the predecessor of modern-day English, OE. The found similarities and dissimilarities of the two will be compared to those of PDG and Present-Day English (PDE), in order to show that throughout time the English language, although still similar in some respects, has lost its close link to German and thus also its Proto-Germanic roots. I will begin this article by examining certain obvious parameters suggesting a similarity between the syntax of OE and the syntax of PDG to understand why scholars have often compared the two languages syntactically. Among other parameters, I will look at constituent order, case, and prefixes. These similarities will be explored in detail and examples in both languages will be given. Continuing to investigate the relationship between OE and PDG, I will examine some of the syntactic properties of OE that differ from those of PDG. I will look into features such as type of V2, use of indefinite articles and personal pronouns to see if the two languages actually are as close as suggested. After this