'''Esperanto''' biþ mangewrohtmangeƿroht gereord. On eallum swylcumsƿylcum gewrohtumgeƿrohtum sprǣcum is Esperanto þæt brādost gesprocene. Hiere nama cymþ of ''Doktoro Esperanto'', under swylcumsƿylcum naman wrātƿrāt his Fruma, L L Zamenhof, and se nama ''Esperanto'' is on þǣre āgensprǣce "mann se hopað". Be þissum naman wrātƿrāt Zamenhof his ǣrstan bōc þǣrin ascrāf hē Esperanto, sēo ''Unua Libro'', in 1887. Zamenhofes ende wæsƿæs tō sciepenne gereord þæt bið scort tō leornienne þæt mōt fēdan frið betwēonumbetƿēonum ðēodum.
Man segeð ðe Esperanto hæfþ hūru 10,000 sprecenda oþþe twātƿā þūsendu þūsanda.
