Old English imaginations of the East: The other texts in the Beowulf manuscript

[@LeoKators]

Hurray! A new video 🎉🎉

[@Hurlebatte]

6:30 Rather than "gibberish-speaking", elreordig more literally meant something like "foreign-voice-y".

[@thijsporck]

True! But here we used R. D. Fulk's translation

[@woolwell_farm]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@Aeslyth]

Þás folc sindon sóþlíce geþafian þæt þæs éast and Englaland habbaþ bendas on ærlicum wísdóme. Ic wundra tó hwilcere ænde hí wyrcaþ tó?

[@willempasterkamp862]

St. Christopher = Drusus germanicus christianized as St. Paul.