What linguistic feature helps scholars identify the manuscript as Old English?
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Correct answer: Anglo-Saxon vocabulary and grammar
The manuscript displays characteristic Anglo-Saxon vocabulary and grammatical structures. These features clearly identify it as Old English.
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