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Old Norse text such as Thor, Loki, etc.
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The Vikings/Scandinavians were some of the first people to introduce pronouns, modals, comparatives, pronominal adverbs (like "hence" and "together"), conjunctions and prepositions.
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Once the writing of Old English came to an end, Middle English had no standard language, only dialects that derived from the dialects of the same regions in the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Gradually, the wealthy and the government Anglicised again, although Norman (and subsequently French) remained the dominant language of literature until the 14th century.
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Although Norse- and English-speakers were somewhat comprehensible to each other due to similar morphology, the Norse-speakers' inability to reproduce the ending sounds of English words influenced Middle English's loss of inflectional endings.
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Peterborough Chronicle
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Modern English evolved from Early Modern English which was used from the beginning of the Tudor period until the Interregnum and Restoration in England.
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The works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English.
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According to the Ethnologue, there are almost 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language.