Old English in Action | Episode 1

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  • @keighlancoe5933
    @keighlancoe5933 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    You've just somehow travelled to a different dimension and parallel timeline where the English won the Battle of Hastings and you're stuck here so now you need to learn Ænglisc.

  • @andrewkemp70
    @andrewkemp70 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Thankyou! This is a much better way to learn a language. I feel like home. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a revival of Old English.

  • @philiplombardo249
    @philiplombardo249 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    …a wonderful approach, method, and technique. I’m an English professor who loves diachronic linguistics and ancient language learning (Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, etc.). It’s my goal to finish Sarelli’s “Elementary Old English” (2011) by next summer. Videos of this style will certainly be useful for not just learning, but true acquisition. Operationalizing vocabulary in real life and in a communicative approach is a wise idea for any language learning effort. Thanks for your videos! 👍 I will be watching!

  • @LaurenceSchoultz
    @LaurenceSchoultz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    We at NASA are using this to train our time travelling cadets. Thanks!

  • @Sky30w0
    @Sky30w0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    only pre-11th century kids remember this

  • @modalmixture
    @modalmixture 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    My mind keeps flipping between hearing a completely unintelligible set of phonemes and hearing comprehensible English spoken with a very peculiar archaic accent. It’s the closest feeling I’ve ever had to suddenly being able to "flip a switch" and understand a foreign language like a native speaker.

  • @gudenruben
    @gudenruben ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great video! When will the Lingua Anglica per se Illustrata be released?

    • @ancientlanguageinstitute
      @ancientlanguageinstitute  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks! Can't make any firm promises quite yet. We're still test-running the content on our students and revising accordingly.

    • @gudenruben
      @gudenruben ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ancientlanguageinstitute looking forward to it either way!

    • @ancientlanguageinstitute
      @ancientlanguageinstitute  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@gudenruben thanks :) we're so excited to get it out in front of more people!

  • @jimatreidēs
    @jimatreidēs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good approach to learning Old English! Great work! Good way to put all those articles, pronouns, nouns, and their cases to work with real examples!

  • @maureenhallahan9336
    @maureenhallahan9336 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These are SO helpful!

  • @SevenStanesMBT
    @SevenStanesMBT ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love it! Really helpful.

  • @hardRebootPlays
    @hardRebootPlays 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    perfect way to do it. Cheers

  • @thomaskendall452
    @thomaskendall452 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Excellent! But I kept waiting to find out what the bears did in the forest.

    • @mattyregelmaessig8654
      @mattyregelmaessig8654 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The same as the Pope.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Probably ate some Old English they came across. A real possibility in those times, apparently along with the wolves.

    • @TroutButter
      @TroutButter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bow chica bow wow!

  • @MenelmacarLG
    @MenelmacarLG ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Εῦγε!

  • @oldenglishandlyre
    @oldenglishandlyre ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very enjoyable thanks.

  • @maureenhallahan9336
    @maureenhallahan9336 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent thank you.

  • @hansdeveen7309
    @hansdeveen7309 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Also some Dutch in it

  • @cleitondecarvalho431
    @cleitondecarvalho431 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it's a kind of better than reading.

  • @Erroniuss
    @Erroniuss 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Am I right in assuming that the g with a dot above it would have been represented by the letter yogh, or was that not introduced until middle English?

    • @tompain9735
      @tompain9735 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Middle English

  • @H1JXCKED
    @H1JXCKED 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Would it be possible to make a video with the translation in modern English because some of these where a guessing game 😂

    • @TitoHabif
      @TitoHabif 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sē sele = The hall / the manor
      Sē tūn = The town
      Sē wer = The man / The were
      Sē fǣder = The father
      Sē cyning = The king / The kyning
      Sēo cwēn = The queen
      Sēo wyrt = The plant / The herb
      Sēo mæġþ = The girl / The maiden
      Þæt holt = The forest / That holt
      Þæt wif = The woman / That wife
      Þæt hūs = The house / That house
      Þæt stǣr = The story / That history
      Sē bera = The bear
      Sē nama = The name
      Middanġeard = Earth / World / Middenyard
      Engla-land = England / Land of the Angles
      🍻

    • @syd.a.m
      @syd.a.m 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TitoHabifInteresting how "that" was singular while "the" was plural.

  • @kahwigulum
    @kahwigulum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    many of these examples are confusing
    like are you referring to the plant or the leaves of the plant or the planting of a plant?
    are you referring to the person writing, the person speaking, or the person reading?
    are you referring to the person just being in the forest, the act of walking in a forest?
    are you referring to the cathedral or the ceiling of the cathedral?
    the examples sentences didn't provide much clarity either
    i guess im just too stupid

    • @icxc1233
      @icxc1233 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Im with you. Some of the examples were clear like for king and queen but you’re right about the others. Would have been nice to have an English translation with it.

    • @burakbilecen9841
      @burakbilecen9841 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think these are just singular and plurals. So I don't think that they include the verbs.

  • @driksarkar6675
    @driksarkar6675 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Swīþe gōd!

  • @illyriankingdom8810
    @illyriankingdom8810 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    it seems to me like a old German language

    • @ancientlanguageinstitute
      @ancientlanguageinstitute  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Good ear!

    • @WGGplant
      @WGGplant ปีที่แล้ว

      English is a Germanic language. Even more so back then.

    • @keighlancoe5933
      @keighlancoe5933 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hit is swā.

    • @MelissaCarole13
      @MelissaCarole13 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Old English is a germanic language.

    • @housecarl1114
      @housecarl1114 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MelissaCarole13 As so in modern English, in spite of those who try to claim otherwise.

  • @nicholassinnett2958
    @nicholassinnett2958 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Þis is god! Ic wille þæt ma manna on Englisc sprecen, and þæt þas filmenna niwra leorningcneohta helpen, and oðre filmenna ðe sind gelice him.
    Ac ic wene þæt þæt wif on meadwe sie, and þæt se cyning and seo cwen sien on metingum! (Ac þa metinga sind on sele, gea.)

    • @keighlancoe5933
      @keighlancoe5933 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's actually a bit of an Old English online community, there's a forum where everyone talks to one another in the tongue. I have conversations in it with a fellow enthusiast via WhatsApp. Though if an Anglo-Saxon could hear us they would probably find it...amusing, as neither of us are exactly fluent, but it's a great way to practice if like me you want to be able to *speak* the language as a living language.

  • @jamiekomodo1751
    @jamiekomodo1751 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That one women is nowhere near the woods; clearly outside of them, in a field.

    • @nicholassinnett2958
      @nicholassinnett2958 ปีที่แล้ว

      And se cyning and seo cwen sind on metingum, na on sele!

    • @jamiekomodo1751
      @jamiekomodo1751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, @@nicholassinnett2958 I think "sele" is fine. There's may cognates across many languages, not just Germanic. E.G. French, and they all more or less mean "hall". That fits well with where a king and queen would be, whereas you suggestion is not found on wiktionary or bos-worth toller. It may occur in some other resource, but Sele works as far as I see.

  • @mattyregelmaessig8654
    @mattyregelmaessig8654 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Interestingly, for those comments written in Old English, Google translate obviously can't recognize the language and does a pathetic job of translating them.

  • @Elriuhilu
    @Elriuhilu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why is the word for woman neuter? It's kind of odd.

    • @MixerRenegade95
      @MixerRenegade95 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It stems from the Verb: to weave (OE: wefan) Someone who weaves is a Wifmann and while anybody can weave it became associated with Women who wove mostly hence Wif became Wife (Weib in High German) and Wifmann became Woman. For a Man weaving he would be called a ''Wefere'' or Weaver.

    • @Elriuhilu
      @Elriuhilu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MixerRenegade95 Cool. Thank you for the explanation :)

    • @MixerRenegade95
      @MixerRenegade95 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Elriuhilu You're welcome.

  • @albionmyl7735
    @albionmyl7735 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪👍👋👌

  • @SičhanġuWičhaša
    @SičhanġuWičhaša 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤! Ðancie þe!

  • @charlesmichaelschmitt6412
    @charlesmichaelschmitt6412 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    where is the little 'maegth lyttle, deutshe 'Mädchen, tromitized she saw her Mom eaten, where is the young boy "Hwaer Se geonge cnight ist?" Weg gelaufen weil, sein Eltern verückt sind.

  • @RTJ3DCosplay
    @RTJ3DCosplay ปีที่แล้ว +2

    going through this im going to type what i think each are as im listening:
    se sele not sure , u show the palace, a celing and another building. pa selas seems to be collection of buildings.
    se tun is the town, pa tunas the towns
    se wer / pa weras all just seem to be men nothing else in common?
    se faeder is the father, pa faerderas is the fathers
    se cyning is the king so pa cyningas is the kings
    seo cwen being the queen, pa cwebe THE queens
    seo wyrt the plant? - pa wyrte plants ?
    sep / pa maegp is gil / girls i think but i will have to stop here theres simply not enough explanation to understand fully what im GUESSING at for episode one this really should be a build up to individual things like this ... one a basic understanding is made...

    • @MixerRenegade95
      @MixerRenegade95 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sele is a Hall, think French: ''Salon'' as it comes from the same root.
      Wer is Man, think ''Werewolf'' as well as the Latin and Celtic ''Vir/Wir''.
      Wyrt is ''Wort'' another name for plantlife in general ala ''St. John's Wort''.
      Maegth is ''Maiden/Girl''.

    • @nicholassinnett2958
      @nicholassinnett2958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MixerRenegade95And "mægden" actually started out as a diminutive form of "mægþ" (and eventually replaced it after it lost the diminutive sense and became a synonym for the original word).
      It's one nitpick I'd make with the video, "mægþ" was rare outside of poetry, except in compound words, since "mægden" had all but replaced it by the time of recorded Old English.

    • @internetguy8075
      @internetguy8075 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@nicholassinnett2958 That's interesting, as something similar has happened in modern Dutch. The word 'meid' isn't used often, and the diminutive 'meisje' has pretty much taken its place.

  • @JimboJamble
    @JimboJamble 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yogi Bera.

  • @ainsley2599
    @ainsley2599 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Promo sm"

  • @gandolfthorstefn1780
    @gandolfthorstefn1780 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sé bera níedes ān wīf. 🐻⛪💍🐻=🧸

  • @charlesmichaelschmitt6412
    @charlesmichaelschmitt6412 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is the wif, Deutsch weib modern english "good question!? warum ist die Weibe im wald, weil sie trift ein bär. The bear doesn't judge the woman, no he just eats her and the video ends Why is the man at home? netflix, playstation 5 etc.

  • @Justin-g6w4i
    @Justin-g6w4i 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bit pointless reviving old English, but ditching lots of french words could be done as mostly English still has its Germanic doubles ,it would give English a better flow to it.

    • @ChildishSoap
      @ChildishSoap 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ever heard of "Anglish"?

    • @Justin-g6w4i
      @Justin-g6w4i 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ChildishSoap yes anglish is something I've been meaning to look into further , find it really interesting

  • @triggerwarning5025
    @triggerwarning5025 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wtf. Its like a combination of norwegian and English