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The aim of this paper is to show that it would preferred to regard Old English as an asymmetric V2 language. There are several clear differences of syntactic phenomena between Old English main and subordinate clauses. In main clauses, the frequency of V2 word order type is higher than other types, and there are also remarkable changes between the early and late Old English periods. However, in Old English subordinate clauses, the frequency of V-final type is higher than other types and such a high frequency is kept throughout the Old English period.