The grammar in Old English is very different, so that hurts your chances. If the words were in the right order for Modern English, it'd be a lot easier. For example in the first quote, I'm pretty sure the OE sentence ended with the word scolde, (pronounced like shoal-deh) which is ancestor of the word "should". The Modern English translation of the sentence ended with the word "way", so you can see that the translation rearranges the words a bit which makes it confusing. After listening to it a couple times, I'm pretty sure it begins "Why, thou Lord, ever wouldst..." but my grasp of OE isn't great enough to get much farther than that. Pretty sure wyrd means fate and he says that a bit on but I can't do anything with the other bits.
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Has this dictionary been published yet?
This is really cool. I have to see if they finished it. A lover of Germanic languages am I.
Cool finds!
Is it available on Amazon?
Beautiful!
Wow I understand nothing
The grammar in Old English is very different, so that hurts your chances. If the words were in the right order for Modern English, it'd be a lot easier. For example in the first quote, I'm pretty sure the OE sentence ended with the word scolde, (pronounced like shoal-deh) which is ancestor of the word "should". The Modern English translation of the sentence ended with the word "way", so you can see that the translation rearranges the words a bit which makes it confusing.
After listening to it a couple times, I'm pretty sure it begins "Why, thou Lord, ever wouldst..." but my grasp of OE isn't great enough to get much farther than that. Pretty sure wyrd means fate and he says that a bit on but I can't do anything with the other bits.
If you want to hear some easily-comprehensible Old English, this is only 1 1/2 minutes: watch?v=p72ciUaTBCk
wesaþ gē hāle þancung