Listen to "Olde Inglish"

Old English or Anglo Saxon was the language used in England from around the year 500 AD until around 1100 AD, just after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.


http://eee.uci.edu/programs/medieval/oeclips.html (audio)

-Listen and read the below poems-

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Cædmon's Hymn (ca.657-680)

Nu we sculon herigean heofonrices Weard
Meotodes meahte ond his modgeþanc
weorc Wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece Drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig Scyppend.
Þa middangeard monncynnes Weard,
ece Drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, Frea ælmihtig.


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Beowulf (ca. 800-1000 AD): lines 702-721

Com on wanre niht
scriðan sceadugenga. Sceotend swæfon,
þa þæt hornreced healdan scoldon,
ealle buton anum. Þæt wæs yldum cuþ,
þæt hie ne moste, þa Metod nolde,
se scynscaþa under sceadu bregdan;--
ac he wæccende wraþum on andan
bad bolgenmod beadwa geþinges.
Ða com of more under misthleoþum
Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær;
mynte se manscaða manna cynnes
sumne besyrwan in sele þam hean.
Wod under wolcnum to þæs þe he winreced,
boldsele gumena gearwost wisse
fættum fahne. Ne wæs þæt forma sið,
þæt he Hroþgares ham gesohte;
næfre he on aldordagum ær ne siþðan
heardran hæle, healðegnas fand!
Com þa to recede rinc siðian
dreamum bedæled.

sounds like German to me

How can you know how old english pronounced? Sounds like a load of scat.

Why can't these idiots use mp3 instead of this "ram" crap?

I agree. Real Player formats suck. They should use more universal formats.

You can listen to the Lord prayer in Old English here - http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/paternoster-oe.html

It plays in windows media player.

Re: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/LP-all.wav

It's sounds Scandinavian or like "deLatinised" Elvish.

Here is an audio sample of Elvish...
http://salonmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/mp3s/tolkien2.mp3

HOW THE KHUI CAN YOU KNOW HOW IT WAS PRONOUNCED??? ITS JUST GUESSING.

Btw, Elvish sounds obviously like a fake language.

I suggest you listen to Elvis-ish instead.

Interesting, but this thread should be in the English part of Antimoon.

I've been studying Old English this semester... It's interesting... And you can't really know for sure how they pronounced it, but it is safe to make certain assumptions based on certain reconstructions.