English from 11th century

england   Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:32 pm GMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl-OZ3breE&NR=1

It sounds like Icelandic, especially with those letters. I love it!
Englowin   Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:50 pm GMT
I love it too!
K. T.   Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:40 pm GMT
Wow.
CID   Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:27 am GMT
dumb
Baldewin   Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:53 am GMT
Would love to study this language.
JPT   Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:28 am GMT
sounds terrible to me.

Middle English on the other hand, I will admit, is intriguing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU
Saxon   Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:33 am GMT
Neither of the two are pronouncing/speaking it correctly. I simply cannot believe that the way it's presented in either is how it actually sounded.

Maybe it's time for me to make one. (sigh)
Skippy   Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:00 pm GMT
I've studied Old English (minimally) but I guess I actually needed to hear that... I've heard the Lord's prayer in Old English before and the guy reading it was kind of goofy. Just now I watched the Beowulf prologue video and it sounds a lot like the spell from "Excalibur" lol
pinocchietto   Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:04 pm GMT
Middle English on the other hand, I will admit, is intriguing:


Middle English sounds like a mixture of Dutch and modern English
Leasnam   Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:36 pm GMT
<<Middle English on the other hand, I will admit, is intriguing: >>

Indeed it is. Middle English has a more familiar feel to Modern English than Old English, because recorded Old English was a literary language used mostly for formal poetry and prose. I'm almost 100% positive that the average Anglo-Saxon did not speak in everyday life the language of Beowulf or the AS Chronicle!

The average lay Saxon on the strǣt probably spoke something more akin to what we see in Middle English.
opl   Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:25 pm GMT
This thread should be moved to English
rep   Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:30 pm GMT
<<Middle English sounds like a mixture of Dutch and modern English>>
Some Middle English words look like Dutch:
schokken- to jump
'Whan bei wil fighte, bei will schokken hem...'
http://books.google.lt/books?id=MLbbCKqdhcUC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=schokken+middle+english&source=bl&ots=nUj-O-RapZ&sig=8HJi47G5tpF4bfcGzDvoCcim__8&hl=lt&ei=TeavSuD_LYnE-QaYvInQBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
schanke-leg
specht-woodpeck
springen-to jump,to spring
winden-to turn,to wind
wellen-to boil
wimpel-wimple
bakke-bat
Bek-stream
burger-townsman,citizen
rep   Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:38 pm GMT
All sentence:
And whan thei wil fighte, thei wille schokken hem to gidre in a plomp, that, zif there be 20000 men, men schalle not wenen that there be scant 10000.
http://www.wordnik.com/words/ween
Leasnam   Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:00 pm GMT
Ahhhh, myn lieve rep, hest thou list for to lerne the Middel Englisch Spreche? Ich can thee leren whanne that thou wilt...

Leet me even knowe ;)
Guest   Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:11 pm GMT
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rep, where are you from? This is slavic isn't it?