Just imagining a bunch of soldiers and mercenaries in old London getting into a tavern brawl the instant that solo kicks in and I'm dying from laughter.
@MasterOfCydonia oh God, someone needs to remake that whole scene with a couple medieval guards trying to quell a massive drunk peseant brawl in a tavern!!
God, the whole story of “Kingsmen” in a medieval setting would be wild to see actually…wait, how would they get the cellphone signal thing? Bah, whatever, it’d still be interesting!
"your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandkids are gonna love it."
I think this version of Freebird would probably bang to the right crowd back then if a bard sang it. He'd be a hit among the more libertine nobles probably.
The Battle that saved the West... where Zrinksi with a force of 3,000 men he was able to hastily gather to himself held off the Ottomans force of over 100,000 for months before 700 finally sally forth for one final charge. Held up the Ottomans for 5 months with the Sultan dying in the siege camp and killed more than 30,000 before being defeated... depleted that entire Ottoman invasion into Europe making it a spent force by the time it got to Vienna.
@nationalsocialism3504 or Polish forces, including the Winged Hussars, breaking the Ottoman Empire's 60 day siege of Vienna in 1683. 23,000 Polish soldiers against 160,000 led by Grand Vizier Mustafa. The Empire doesn't have much luck against Polish forces.
@@the_miracle_aligner not sure what you mean since the battle at the standford brua was still during Anglo Saxon england, so before the Normans eventually mixxed creating middle english
tip next time you do a song with a known epic ending as Freebird, animate the image then an put the patreons in the last seconds so we can enjoy the song without the extra sound off
Gotta give those Arabs credit... they are all about to die & they are still charging forward. They had to have fucked up bad to get themselves in such an unwinnable position as to be countercharging Europeans... Arabs on Arabian horses would always get overrun by knights on Perchons
The Old English of the Anglo-Saxons, and by extension its descendant Middle English, were basically Germanic languages, at least until the Norman nobility and thier French rubbed off down onto the commoners. Even today, a lot of English and German words are very similar. In particular, animals names are still very close (Kuh, Schaf, Schwein, etc), but the meats of those animals are French derived (bœuf,mouton, porc), as it was the french speaking nobles who got to name the meat.
Yeah, but spelling-wise, it looks so much like the kind of English you read in 17th to 19th century poetry. It's so interesting how it can sound like one language and look like another.
@@xerxeskingofking English still is a Germanic language - its grammar evolved in a continuum from Old English to Modern English, with minimal influence from French in that regard; and of course, the most common words in English are still overwhelmingly Germanic in origin. Although it's true that a huge amount of words were borrowed into English from Norman French, further massive non-Germanic borrowings have happened in modern times through scientific Latin and Greek - in total, larger than what was borrowed from French. This song is meant to be pretty much Chaucer's English, which had already borrowed many words from French. You can see some in the song: remembre, chaunge, places, sentment, greve. Still, most of the vocabulary is incidentally Germanic. The song has a fairly simple narrative, so it mostly sticks to fairly common words.
Oh, you’re a heavily armed and armored knight who has spent their life training in the art of war? Have fun with this steel ball that will either miss wildly or send you directly to god.
@@semi-useful5178 Were they really not? They definitely were by the 1600s, I've seen a cavalry cuirass with a massive(not cannon ball massive but quite large) bullet hole through it from the English Civil War era. Was the velocity of these projectiles really that much worse with earlier type of gunpowder weapons?
POV: You're a knight resting in an inn preparing for pilgrimage to Canterbury tomorrow and some guy named Chaucer came over to ask you what you did in Poitiers in the year of our Lord 1356
I got to wondering how many generations it has been. The language called "Middle English" gradually ended around the year 1500, so about 520 years ago. At 25 years to the generation, that's 20 generations. If you're generation 0, your grandpa is generation -2, so generation -20 would have your great^18 grandpa.
@@iavv334at least according to the credits, it sounds like they are using real instruments. I'm guessing they might be adding some super mild post-processing in order to make it sound like it's being played in a different situation than a recording booth? A lot of people subconsciously interpret that as meaning fake instruments
You stand before the court of the king accused of breaking all the laws of both man and God. How doth thy plead? Your grace, the bard was playing Free Bird.
This is using pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation. The Great Vowel Shift greatly changed English vowels to less-resemble its continental relatives, German, Dutch, Frisian, and Low German/Saxon. Northern English and Scots, until quite recently, experienced less of the Great Vowel Shift; so it's fair to compare it to Dutch and Scottish accents.
@@HrothgarLareowyup, I think about that phonetic shift way more than a non-linguist ever should (EDIT: which includes me, FYI, my hobby is delightfully ill-advised)
Usually I'm not much for midi instruments, but the way you use them is just so FUN. You really push them to get a great sound. And the idea of a computer desperately imitating a Medieval instrument imitating a ripping guitar solo just tickles me greatly.
In medieval Germany, "Vogelfrei sein" (literal translation: "to be free as a bird") meant being an outlaw. It indicated that the laws did not apply to you and your safety anymore, meaning anyone could do anything to you without consequence, but also everyone was allowed to arrest you and turn you in to the guards. Nobody was allowed to let you into their home or help you otherwise, because you should live 'as free as a bird'.
In England, they call that being made 'Wolfshead', because not only did any peasant have the right to kill wolves on sight, they'd be paid for the pelt by whoever owned the land they lived on. Wolves were a common threat to livestock and so it was in the common good that they were killed.
@@eisleyism ...It was another example of how an expression related to medieval criminality affected the development of language. It made literally as much sense as what was said.
@@eisleyism It makes perfect sense. In Medieval Germany outlaws were called "as free as a bird". In Medieval England outlaws were called "Wolfshead". He just posted another interesting, and similar, example of medieval sayings for outlaws.
Yeah. The stuff Shakespeare wrote with is early modern English and proper Old English is more similar to German than English we would even remotely recognize with our modern English recognition.
When Brother Maynard hands you the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and says thou shalt count to three, no more no less. Though shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be to three. And there was much rejoicing
@@Hiljaa_ It's a medieval royalty/aristocracy thing, you're probably too much of a peasant to get it (Royals only married other royals, so they all ended up related to each other. Yes, incest was a problem, the Hapsburgs really suffered from that.)
@@samuelmellars7855 Eh, when you are a peasant who has lived in the same village as his ancestors for hundreds or thousands of years, it's not actually that far off. Hapsburgs were taken to an extreme though.
I already imagined an absolutely absurd, but still cool scene, where a stern guy in armor, hung with weapons, rushes through enemies, holding a spear in slow motion, all stuff, and then uses this same spear as a pole and flies up several meters in the air. And it is at the moment with the "fre bird" that he blocks the sun while pathetically taking out a scabbard with a sword from behind his back. And then it is simply necessary for him to pierce the very front Saracen with this sword and only then step on the ground. Well, then there is just a scene where you don't even need words to say that the guy was born to be cool, when he shows who the real master of martial arts and icon of war is, who cannot be held back by the advantage of the enemies in speed and height, because they are on horses, nor in numbers, nor even his own armor, which does not seem to even hinder his movements and does not block his view. And this is just the weakest first-level human fighter in DnD.
This is one bard core song that I think if magically sent back to the past the people would vibe to it. The meaning of the lyrics aren’t too different and so the meter fits well, the composition would be unorthodox but not dissonant enough for people to go nuts about (especially since it's a pretty direct descendant to the celtic folk music that would have been popular at the time).
It's a bit fast-paced for northern europe once it hits the solo but the gradual buildup might help on the other hand you start playing this around the medditeranean? especially the muslim world arching from spain down to africa and into arabia? They would love it
Single-handedly one of the best remixes of any song I’ve ever seen in my life. Gonna blast this while playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance when I get home.
@@Andrew-mo9gp Honestly, I think he has enough Latin songs. I'd like to hear Last Stand, but in Byzantine Greek but make it about Konstantinos Palaiologos and his last stand defending Constantinople.
Behold; I hath made goodly modifications to yon amplification artifice, Lo, the dial proceedeth to one-and-ten. Forsooth, why didst ye not make the position of ten more affluent in volume? THIS ONE PROCEEDETH TO ONE-AND-TEN.
You actually transcribed the entire guitar solo on whatever medieval instrument it is you're playing... I'm going to create a music award just so I can give it to you.
Having a bit of an amateur interest in linguistics, being able to see Middle English written as it's being said really helps me understand how Modern English got here through the Great Vowel Shift. And it came from a meme video about Free Bird.
Right about Chaucer's Middle English. I'm a English major and have read Chaucer in Middle English man times. For me your translation was very understandable. Great artwork!!!!!
King Charles VI of France: T F were you thinking, we have lost by charging at English and Welsh Longbowmen twice already, and you do it again? French Knights: Sorry I was listening to thing banger.
The Latin alphabet was fitted to Latin, and English used it roughly like Latin did, until the Great Vowel Shift. The words changed but the spellings stayed.
I'm also astounded that there have been different buildings, pants and vehicles over the years. I wonder if it's different bugs or if all the bugs are the same ones from 800 yrs ago
Hi! A time ago, I translated Now And Then by The Beatles into old English. If you are interested in covering the song, you can use my translation. It should be available on Lyricstranslate. Thanks!
As a Swede, this is what it would sound like if I pronounced English words the way that they are spelt, that is, like how those letters sound in my language. This shows that once, English was actually pronounced like it is written! Some words were also closer to Swedish than modern English. Great song!
Dear Miracle Aligner, You did a great rendition of What is Love by Haddaway but the video disappeared suddenly, never to be seen again on the internet! Can you please repost it? Please, please! It was the best medieval interpretation of this wonderful song! Thank you, from a big fan of your music!
@@donkeysaurusrex7881I like the Jay Leno commercial where he goes mad max kiss my ass where him and a bunch of ppl he hired are all driving in the desert to no destination and for no other reason than to film a commercial for his show about his cars. I was like yeah but he shoulda said Immortan Joe kiss my ass
This makes me want to make some kind of weird retro "FPS." That oldschool 2D billboarding. I'm just imagining the horse, gauntlet, and lance bobbing as you're rushing around like mad.
Something beautiful about being able to take an American (“The New World”) song from the latter 20th century and have it sang in a language from a 1000 years earlier …..
Free Bard
Sir, taketh the upward ballot in wrath of mine
came here to say this
Who in the hell pronounces it Linnerd instead of Leonard anyway
@@flannigan7956in a hillbilly so it all sounds the same when I say it 😂
Cease thine patter and take mine currency!
Thy holiness, fre bird was playing
I hereby absolve thee of thy charges
😂🏆🥇🥇🥇
This explains so much of the crusades.
@@petoperceptum I'm sorry Constantinople was right there are some bard had free bird playing on the music box
@@petoperceptumSomebody had to provide safe passage to pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Just imagining a bunch of soldiers and mercenaries in old London getting into a tavern brawl the instant that solo kicks in and I'm dying from laughter.
Kingsmen was great, wasn’t it?
Bard: "Sir Mackay Pentwood the lll, thy unloyal maiden be'eth a harlot wench!"
Knight: "WHOMST SCOUNDREL DARE MOCK THY MAIDEN?!!!" 😂
@MasterOfCydonia oh God, someone needs to remake that whole scene with a couple medieval guards trying to quell a massive drunk peseant brawl in a tavern!!
@@EvilGremlin100fr😂
God, the whole story of “Kingsmen” in a medieval setting would be wild to see actually…wait, how would they get the cellphone signal thing? Bah, whatever, it’d still be interesting!
"your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandkids are gonna love it."
😂
You actually did the math with the amount of Greats 😂😂
❤
Love the back to the future reference
I think this version of Freebird would probably bang to the right crowd back then if a bard sang it. He'd be a hit among the more libertine nobles probably.
POV: You’re finally sallying out after 7 months of continuous siege, disease and starvation
The Battle that saved the West... where Zrinksi with a force of 3,000 men he was able to hastily gather to himself held off the Ottomans force of over 100,000 for months before 700 finally sally forth for one final charge. Held up the Ottomans for 5 months with the Sultan dying in the siege camp and killed more than 30,000 before being defeated... depleted that entire Ottoman invasion into Europe making it a spent force by the time it got to Vienna.
@nationalsocialism3504 or Polish forces, including the Winged Hussars, breaking the Ottoman Empire's 60 day siege of Vienna in 1683. 23,000 Polish soldiers against 160,000 led by Grand Vizier Mustafa. The Empire doesn't have much luck against Polish forces.
I’m crying lol
@@nationalsocialism3504*Zrínyi
@@nationalsocialism3504the Polish really don’t get enough credit for this one
But my liege! To my defense free bird was playing!
Praise the omnissiah brother
For the Machine Spirits.
Fre Bird
@throggkingoftrolls3801 praise be to the omnissiah! For the machine is immortal
Me butt, fellas
this is what that viking at stamford bridge was hearing
Little early, the lyrics, but YES!!! XD
@@the_miracle_alignerhe was into the classics
nah m8 this is just some dude in yorkshire singing karaoke
This is what every Viking berserker ever was hearing.
@@the_miracle_aligner not sure what you mean since the battle at the standford brua was still during Anglo Saxon england, so before the Normans eventually mixxed creating middle english
04:38 Some of you are probably just here for this so here ya go :)
Thou woot wat the people want.
🫡
Hahaha, sure! 😎
I mean how many speeding tickets have come from this part specifically 😁😁
tip next time you do a song with a known epic ending as Freebird, animate the image then an put the patreons in the last seconds so we can enjoy the song without the extra sound off
“God woot, I ne chaunge!” goes so much harder than it should.
“fle hye, fre bird, ye”
The rhyme on that is just too good!
Hell ye!
This is probably the single hardest image I have seen in many years.
I didn’t really look until I saw this (listening on my phone)
Gotta give those Arabs credit... they are all about to die & they are still charging forward. They had to have fucked up bad to get themselves in such an unwinnable position as to be countercharging Europeans... Arabs on Arabian horses would always get overrun by knights on Perchons
I find it amazing how this sounds very close to, say, Dutch or German in many parts.
The Old English of the Anglo-Saxons, and by extension its descendant Middle English, were basically Germanic languages, at least until the Norman nobility and thier French rubbed off down onto the commoners. Even today, a lot of English and German words are very similar. In particular, animals names are still very close (Kuh, Schaf, Schwein, etc), but the meats of those animals are French derived (bœuf,mouton, porc), as it was the french speaking nobles who got to name the meat.
Sounds a bit like a mix between English, Danish and Dutch/German, to me.
Yeah, but spelling-wise, it looks so much like the kind of English you read in 17th to 19th century poetry. It's so interesting how it can sound like one language and look like another.
@@xerxeskingofking English still is a Germanic language - its grammar evolved in a continuum from Old English to Modern English, with minimal influence from French in that regard; and of course, the most common words in English are still overwhelmingly Germanic in origin.
Although it's true that a huge amount of words were borrowed into English from Norman French, further massive non-Germanic borrowings have happened in modern times through scientific Latin and Greek - in total, larger than what was borrowed from French.
This song is meant to be pretty much Chaucer's English, which had already borrowed many words from French. You can see some in the song: remembre, chaunge, places, sentment, greve. Still, most of the vocabulary is incidentally Germanic. The song has a fairly simple narrative, so it mostly sticks to fairly common words.
It is very close to the Frisian dialect
Didst thou hearest the newest single by Ser Leonard of Sknard? 'Tis fire.
ye verily it be aflame!
Tis the flames indeed
[T]
Verily Sir, verily !
Fyre Festival
Nay, ‘tis not Swete Hāme Alabama
Cue a diagram displaying how an arquebus works
Oh, you’re a heavily armed and armored knight who has spent their life training in the art of war? Have fun with this steel ball that will either miss wildly or send you directly to god.
@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo yep that's basically exactly how it worked
We hired the most seasoned overweight LARPers
@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo
Sorry friend, but guns weren't armor piercing. What killed the Knight was the Merchant's power struggle with the Crown.
@@semi-useful5178 Were they really not? They definitely were by the 1600s, I've seen a cavalry cuirass with a massive(not cannon ball massive but quite large) bullet hole through it from the English Civil War era. Was the velocity of these projectiles really that much worse with earlier type of gunpowder weapons?
Absolutely fucking phenomenal
Thank you so very much for showing me this
what are you doing here
Yoooooo
Language, Aidan! (Doesn't matter which)
Me when i defeated (ran over) an evil sorcerer (a local hobo) on the back of my honorable steed (2005 nissan altima)
Don Quixote ass post
charged with Riding While Potioned (DUI)
As a metalhead and an English teacher, you have no idea how much I enjoyed this one. Thank you for such a gift.
I get a kick out of it as a proctologist, sewage truck driver and Donald Trump diaper duty
@@flannigan7956 😅😂😸 ¡Que fiera! 😮
POV: You're a knight resting in an inn preparing for pilgrimage to Canterbury tomorrow and some guy named Chaucer came over to ask you what you did in Poitiers in the year of our Lord 1356
Lol
Those tales were wild
POV: Knyght you're A Yorke from when ye vowel shifteth poet's eyeball before him.
Verily I sayeth Poitier was lit.
What happened?
Finally! A version I can show to my great great great great great great great great grandpa!
Ah, a fellow necromancer!
@@theredknight3736 You killed me with "Ah, a fellow necromancer!" bro. And then, I woke up from shining tunnel....
I got to wondering how many generations it has been. The language called "Middle English" gradually ended around the year 1500, so about 520 years ago. At 25 years to the generation, that's 20 generations. If you're generation 0, your grandpa is generation -2, so generation -20 would have your great^18 grandpa.
@@AungKhantMin-s7q Killed you say?
Not even the bards of the medieval bards were free from that guy yelling ”PLAY FREEBIRD”
I appreciate the string work here. Hard to get the same effect with no electric guitar, but damn you got it close.
I wish they got a real lute or harp going on it
@@iavv334at least according to the credits, it sounds like they are using real instruments. I'm guessing they might be adding some super mild post-processing in order to make it sound like it's being played in a different situation than a recording booth? A lot of people subconsciously interpret that as meaning fake instruments
You stand before the court of the king accused of breaking all the laws of both man and God. How doth thy plead?
Your grace, the bard was playing Free Bird.
I sentence you not guilty
We shall hear this "Fre Bird" thine bard hath played.
Ayy S1ap, fancy seeing you here! Did you go around Talladega so fast you ended in the 15th century XD
Tis needeth more shalt cowbell
@@flannigan7956 Wrong band but still funny
"But my lord, the bards had sung fre bird"
makes me wonder, what would be the closest medieval equivalent of a traffic police?
"Go with peace my son, thine sins art forgiven..."
This is what DaVinci was playing while he was testing his thopters.
It's more like that one Arab scientist that tested his glider and ended up with a permanent back injury
Arabs have problems
What sound doth a thopter make whilst thopting about?
*thopt*
*thopt*
*thopt*
*thopt*
In the thopters of me butt
This is definitely what people are listening to during a last stand
Amen, brätter.
Not “The Last Stand”?
That bard is absolutely shredding
If future Scottish and Dutch spacefarers make a colony together, they might sound a LOT like they're speaking Middle English. TIL!
This is using pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation. The Great Vowel Shift greatly changed English vowels to less-resemble its continental relatives, German, Dutch, Frisian, and Low German/Saxon. Northern English and Scots, until quite recently, experienced less of the Great Vowel Shift; so it's fair to compare it to Dutch and Scottish accents.
@@HrothgarLareowyup, I think about that phonetic shift way more than a non-linguist ever should (EDIT: which includes me, FYI, my hobby is delightfully ill-advised)
figures, they did it the first time, Anglo-Saxons and Celts and whatnot
I REALLY like the way you think, brother
me when I see someone online say the exact plot of one of my world building projects:
I love how the medieval instruments aren't really strong enough to solo on so the whole band has to work with the solo more to help it out.
It's very harmonious, I really like the drums I can imagine some medieval dude with a tambourine and a parade drum
4:33 - Playing Mount and Blade Warband and the F1, F3 kicks in.
Veri nice reference bro
Oh man it's all over once you gotta hit that F1, F3
"it's almost harvesting season"
Horsemen!
C H A R G E
Me driving my chariot into the sixty squires because the bard began strumming the lute solo to Fre Bird 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🦅
You're a knight in a cathedral. Suddenly everyone becomes violent and you hear this song playing as you fight to the death.
A true Kingsman...
As you exit the church, you here “What I hath done”
A brawl in a church does sound very Lynyrd Skynyrd ish. Big jug of diarrhea
NOT IN THE LORDS HOUS
Usually I'm not much for midi instruments, but the way you use them is just so FUN. You really push them to get a great sound. And the idea of a computer desperately imitating a Medieval instrument imitating a ripping guitar solo just tickles me greatly.
Are we sure it’s a midi? It doesn’t sound like one. I guess technology has advanced a lot
Ah! I think why it doesn’t sound like a midi is that… it’s not. The guy he collaborated with has a video of himself playing a lute
Unreal solo, perfect for leading metal chriot straight into wild road darkness
In medieval Germany, "Vogelfrei sein" (literal translation: "to be free as a bird") meant being an outlaw. It indicated that the laws did not apply to you and your safety anymore, meaning anyone could do anything to you without consequence, but also everyone was allowed to arrest you and turn you in to the guards. Nobody was allowed to let you into their home or help you otherwise, because you should live 'as free as a bird'.
In England, they call that being made 'Wolfshead', because not only did any peasant have the right to kill wolves on sight, they'd be paid for the pelt by whoever owned the land they lived on. Wolves were a common threat to livestock and so it was in the common good that they were killed.
@@RavenKing95your response doesn’t make any to sense to what was said
@@eisleyism ...It was another example of how an expression related to medieval criminality affected the development of language. It made literally as much sense as what was said.
So basically Skyrim IRL.
@@eisleyism It makes perfect sense. In Medieval Germany outlaws were called "as free as a bird". In Medieval England outlaws were called "Wolfshead". He just posted another interesting, and similar, example of medieval sayings for outlaws.
One of the best you've ever done,🤌
Ty so much, it's one of my favorites too haha
@@the_miracle_aligner this was made for you mate!
@@the_miracle_aligner the way your quality seems to be improving I wonder how long until you make something even better
Middle English is like an uncanny valley of languages, so similar to current english yet somewhat unnervingly different.
It should be the opposite tbh, people from the 1400s would probably be ashamed at how much you guys butchered their language.
@@zope6362 Yeah, and people from 1000 BC would be ashamed that Latin is no longer a language. Your point being?
@@alexanderhamilton4258 rightfully so tbh,Latin was pretty tubular
The pre great vowel shift pronunciation makes it sound like a Dutch or German person trying to speak English.
Yeah. The stuff Shakespeare wrote with is early modern English and proper Old English is more similar to German than English we would even remotely recognize with our modern English recognition.
What's really interesting is that I can *almost* understand it just as it is. Language is an interesting thing.
the Great Vowel Shift is a hell of a drug
@lute solo Royalty at the party: _”What be this pace?!”_ 😂
That sweet lyre solo got me weeping for this bird may never change.
When Brother Maynard hands you the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and says thou shalt count to three, no more no less. Though shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be to three.
And there was much rejoicing
yaaaaay 🎉
Only Monty Python has the chutzpah to parody the Bible
*unenthusiastic*"yay."
Showed this to my queen and she loved it. Truly the best cousin ever.
Habsburgs be like:
Excuse me what
@@Hiljaa_ It's a medieval royalty/aristocracy thing, you're probably too much of a peasant to get it
(Royals only married other royals, so they all ended up related to each other. Yes, incest was a problem, the Hapsburgs really suffered from that.)
@@samuelmellars7855 Eh, when you are a peasant who has lived in the same village as his ancestors for hundreds or thousands of years, it's not actually that far off.
Hapsburgs were taken to an extreme though.
@@Sogytoast"chin up, mate"
"But my lord, freebird was playing" LMFAO
When you're the first of Richard's Own through the breach at Acre
How does it feel to share nothing but bangers? You and your team are incredibly talented, and I'm so grateful to be able to hear this work. Thank you.
“But Thy liege, thou bard doth performed the music of “free bird” when I ran thou horse drawn carriage off thine bridge!”
0:00 Knight donning armour
3:05 Knight mounting, and readying lance
4:00 Knight sally forth
4:35 Knight beginning charge
4:50 Battle art join'ed
7:20 Deus vult
I already imagined an absolutely absurd, but still cool scene, where a stern guy in armor, hung with weapons, rushes through enemies, holding a spear in slow motion, all stuff, and then uses this same spear as a pole and flies up several meters in the air. And it is at the moment with the "fre bird" that he blocks the sun while pathetically taking out a scabbard with a sword from behind his back. And then it is simply necessary for him to pierce the very front Saracen with this sword and only then step on the ground. Well, then there is just a scene where you don't even need words to say that the guy was born to be cool, when he shows who the real master of martial arts and icon of war is, who cannot be held back by the advantage of the enemies in speed and height, because they are on horses, nor in numbers, nor even his own armor, which does not seem to even hinder his movements and does not block his view.
And this is just the weakest first-level human fighter in DnD.
This is one bard core song that I think if magically sent back to the past the people would vibe to it. The meaning of the lyrics aren’t too different and so the meter fits well, the composition would be unorthodox but not dissonant enough for people to go nuts about (especially since it's a pretty direct descendant to the celtic folk music that would have been popular at the time).
It's a bit fast-paced for northern europe once it hits the solo but the gradual buildup might help
on the other hand you start playing this around the medditeranean? especially the muslim world arching from spain down to africa and into arabia? They would love it
Single-handedly one of the best remixes of any song I’ve ever seen in my life. Gonna blast this while playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance when I get home.
It really is incredible.
Actually, all birds are owned by his royal majesty.
no one can stop you from closing your eyes and imagining a rotating rat when the solo starts
And this ratte thou mayst nat speen!
no wonder The Plague spread like, well, The Plague.
Liked. Shared. Commented. Hunted down the algorithm to the ends of the earth.
That moment before death where you think maybe this crusade thing was a bad idea ...
Then Jesus comes down with sunglasses, gives you a beer, and says: "Deus Vult, brother. Deus Vult." And takes you to Valhalla.
Glory is never a bad idea
Eternal glory and absolution of sin was never a bad idea
The Glory of Heaven and Everlasting Life is Eternal
@@anomonyous would Jesus even be allowed in Valhalla he was pretty pacifist, right? Or they let in him because of the water into wine thing
Yet another banger! I'd love to hear Last Stand by Sabaton in Latin, shit would go so hard.
Or Winged Hussars in Proto-Indo-European
@@Booksforthewin Why not Middle Polish?
@@Andrew-mo9gp Honestly, I think he has enough Latin songs. I'd like to hear Last Stand, but in Byzantine Greek but make it about Konstantinos Palaiologos and his last stand defending Constantinople.
Great call !!!!
@minutemansam214
The Lightning strikes once more.
You have no idea what you've enabled my "bardic inspiration" playlist for d&d to do
Behold; I hath made goodly modifications to yon amplification artifice, Lo, the dial proceedeth to one-and-ten.
Forsooth, why didst ye not make the position of ten more affluent in volume?
THIS ONE PROCEEDETH TO ONE-AND-TEN.
Ye olde humour
You actually transcribed the entire guitar solo on whatever medieval instrument it is you're playing... I'm going to create a music award just so I can give it to you.
Having a bit of an amateur interest in linguistics, being able to see Middle English written as it's being said really helps me understand how Modern English got here through the Great Vowel Shift. And it came from a meme video about Free Bird.
This was the song that played when King Robert Baratheon killed Prince Rhaegar at the Battle of The Trident
That lute solo though!!!
Right about Chaucer's Middle English. I'm a English major and have read Chaucer in Middle English man times. For me your translation was very understandable. Great artwork!!!!!
King Charles VI of France: T F were you thinking, we have lost by charging at English and Welsh Longbowmen twice already, and you do it again?
French Knights: Sorry I was listening to thing banger.
This is beautiful. The crescendo and breakdown at the end was p e r f e c t.
Incredible that some times, the pronuciation of some words in medieval english was similar of how a foreign would speak english
The Latin alphabet was fitted to Latin, and English used it roughly like Latin did, until the Great Vowel Shift. The words changed but the spellings stayed.
I'm also astounded that there have been different buildings, pants and vehicles over the years. I wonder if it's different bugs or if all the bugs are the same ones from 800 yrs ago
If one strikes as the lute solo drops, they guarantee their victory
Hi! A time ago, I translated Now And Then by The Beatles into old English. If you are interested in covering the song, you can use my translation. It should be available on Lyricstranslate. Thanks!
As a Swede, this is what it would sound like if I pronounced English words the way that they are spelt, that is, like how those letters sound in my language. This shows that once, English was actually pronounced like it is written! Some words were also closer to Swedish than modern English. Great song!
I'm sorry my lord, the horse started to sing Freebird
What a dumb horse
Dear Miracle Aligner,
You did a great rendition of What is Love by Haddaway but the video disappeared suddenly, never to be seen again on the internet! Can you please repost it? Please, please! It was the best medieval interpretation of this wonderful song!
Thank you, from a big fan of your music!
I only know a bit of Dutch and German and I can already see the similarities with middle English :o words like Bitte - Bidde
And woot (knows)
It now dawned on me that “Bitte” is related to “Bidde” (pray). That makes so much sense!!
Girl - Mai - Meid (NL) - Mädel (DE)
@@martijnkosters9024 the power of Germanic languages
wait until you hear unchanged pure germanic old english
"I myself will carry you to the gates of Valhalla. You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome." - Immortan Joe
Witness me!
Amazing how much of that religion comes through when we get so little information on it.
@donkeysaurusrex7881
Witnessed!
@@donkeysaurusrex7881I like the Jay Leno commercial where he goes mad max kiss my ass where him and a bunch of ppl he hired are all driving in the desert to no destination and for no other reason than to film a commercial for his show about his cars. I was like yeah but he shoulda said Immortan Joe kiss my ass
In the tavern, straight up strokin' it. and by 'it' haha well lets justr say my lute
when i eventually leave this earth, THIS will be played at my service.
Probably the only time where Kings, Queens, Royalties, High Clergy, Skilled Labors, and Peasants would party alongside one another.
4:30 POV: You cast haste on the Paladin
Every Miracle Aligner upload is a gift.
This makes me want to make some kind of weird retro "FPS." That oldschool 2D billboarding.
I'm just imagining the horse, gauntlet, and lance bobbing as you're rushing around like mad.
That is amazing. Skynard goes hard no matter what language or time period!!!
You got your sky and you got your nard
@@flannigan7956 drunk n dyxlexyc
Your Honor, my client asserts that warcrimes haven't been invented yet.
Damn. Proof the songs fucking timeless
Definitely my fav on this channel.
Really enjoying the songs in Middle English as they are mostly understandable to modern English speakers
Youre sitting in a tavern...
this banger starts playing ...
bar fight immedietly...
you win.
Drink a pint after with everyone
Something beautiful about being able to take an American (“The New World”) song from the latter 20th century and have it sang in a language from a 1000 years earlier …..
Greatest lute solo of all time!
Came for the solo, stayed for the lyrics
The never knew how much old English sounds like a Scouse accent 😂
Those lute riffs hit hard.
Dont worry your great great great great great great grandchildren are going to love it.
Lmfao "maybe you guys aren't ready for this yet....."
i love how the artwork totally looks like a scene where free bird would play
I can see the crowd holding up their burnign flax toches during this
Lol
loving that i can understand lots of this, feels more connected to the past. lovely song, 10/10
When it reaches the switch and speeds up...man! Goosebumps.
The tavern would be in an INCONSOLABLE state
I think This is the coolest thing I have listened to all year!
"My lord, the laws of the land doth not apply when Free Bard is being played."
It’s been a long time since I’ve found something on TH-cam this creative and downright fun. This alone is worth subscribing.
This is really amazing!
My favorite part about this is that at certain points the instruments kinda sound like a horse galloping
I hear that in Iron Maiden's "The Trooper," too.
"My Liege, theh musical nothes of Fre Byrd wasth sounding"
I was going to have Free Bird played at my funeral.
I want THIS version!
Onward! Again and again, until the dream is within our grasp!