First I'd like to apologise for that bad editing and lack of subtitles, my computer decided to upgrade movie maker to a new version which is impossible to work...
I have always had a, maybe, foolish dream, that theEnglish should learn old english as a second language, in much the same way as the Welsh and Irish learn their languages. and I would LOVE to see all public signs in both modern and old english. I think it would give the English a much needed renewed pride in themselves and their great history.
John Cross I salute you for that but England has been so overran by the PC crowd that it would never happen unless the English would rebel and reclaim their homeland from the foreigners that have overtaken them.
Thank you so much for this. As an aging Canadian who has been fortunate enough to live and work in several languages, including Chinese, French, German, Russian and a few more, I recently delved into Swedish and found it constantly brought a smile to my face. Quite by accident I picked up a book I found many (many!) years ago in Providence, Rhode Island on Old English and found the smile was even wider. Maybe Lamarkian genetics has something. There is a feeling of belonging and roots to this that really merits attention. I am sure the quality of current English would benefit immensely from a better unerstanding of its roots, just as we all benefit immensely from a closer examination of your own roots. Much appreciated.
Maybe you could teach about things in the kitchen? Nature such as river, sea, island and everything related to the Old English? Or professions in Old England? Political and administration of the Old English? I guess there are many things that you can teach. Thanks I love all your videos. It portrays English spirit as well as introducing the precious hidden part of England.
I'm not sure exactly why it happened but I'm glad it did. I really wish the channel owner would keep making these videos. I haven't had much luck finding Anglo-Saxon resources on the web thus far.
England should adopt the White Dragon as its flag, have St Edmund the Martyr as its patron saint, have either Alfred the Great or Harold Godwinson be the national hero rather than a normanised version of King Arthur, have an English Parliament called the Moot (a name which should also apply to all councils), have shires rather than counties etc.
We do have shires, as far as it really matters. All our "counties" are named shire (Derbyshire, Cambridgeshire etcetera) The official terms don't really matter in my opinion if their place names suggest shire.
I'm off to get a flag. Not sure about changing county names, we have a fair mix and don't need /another/ hundred years war. Saint and Hero? I'd vote for Alfred as hero and like the idea of Edmund for Saint. They both have the possibility for fabulous stories (in the older sense of the word)
I can't believe I never found these videos until now. It's fascinating how quickly I recognize the these words, and yet how Germanic they sound. I know that English is a Germanic language, but it becomes blatantly obvious as I watch these videos.
Can you type the words out? Can't really get it by just listening to the sound. And also these video are really good. Are there any books that I can read to know more?
Oh these videos are wonderful, thank you! Please, please may we have more? Would love to hear phrases that might have been used in ordinary homes, about daily life. Do keep up the good work...it's fascinating!!
Thank you for this series of lessons. I am a folk singer whose arm has been twisted into learning some of the /old/ songs aaand I want to do them properly!
Really great and interesting information. Since it's from five years ago, I imagine that you have moved on to other endeavors, but if you have any spare time, it would be fantastic to see a couple more videos. Thanks!
I enjoyed all these videos, you're so knowledgeable...I "taught" myself through books, and I formed my pronunciations through German, Dutch, Danish, and Icelandic. It's just so good to finally find someone that's knowledgeable, and takes all this seriously.
You definitely have a feel for this. Please keep going! The brevity of the individual lessons is a major plus. It is helpful to show in written form every word you pronounce. Suggestions for future lessons: keep going with grammar, perhaps introducing the cases and verb tenses; vocabulary from more domains (now that we know some animals and all the essential family nouns); recite (and invite the viewer to imitate) a few sentences.
I'm an american girl with lost english heritage and I have to say that I love your videos. I wish I could learn to talk like a modern english person, let alone the old english :)
Saxland....wow, that sounds original. I´m a Latina that speaks both English and German, so I'm also amazed by how so many old English words could be considered German if I didn't know better, and if I just guided myself for the pronunciation of certain words.
old english is similar to german in a way, so i'm learning old english before starting german. i feel it might help me understand some of it more. it's also just a cool language to learn.
I would love to see you continue this series! Perhaps a unit on some common nouns, such as foods, clothing, weather, household articles (though I know there wouldn't be all that many of those we would use today!) And I would like to see some on some common verbs and how to conjugate them. Another cool idea would be to include somewhere a list of what were common names of people in Old English. How do you get the Old English letters to type, is there a program for it, or is it something I can do?
Hi how's it going? I would like to learn about some additional Old English items. How about food, measurements, directions (how to ask for and give directions), money (how much does it cost), animal commands, job related items (are you hiring, what is the salary, etc), housing items (buying a house terms, how to rent a flat terms, etc), marriage terms (how to get married, how to request marriage, etc) and how to navigate adult things in daily life (setting appointments, attending classes at University, etc). Thanks for sharing what you shared thus far it has been helpful to me.
Really fascinating and very useful; can we please have a couple of lessons on the on the different classes of Old English verbs; also I find Old English adjectival forms very difficult to grasp - a brief guide to these would be helpful. I agree with the commentator who said that Old English should be in the school curriculum.
I like to see you speaking the words. Visuals help clarify mouth position, so thanks for that! But still want the written word on the screen at the same time. More lessons would be much appreciated!
just keep on teaching. learning the language of our fathers is exciting and primal; but it is also necessary to better understand the world around us and how it grew.
dear Herewulf, this is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, the best thing on You Tube. I've got Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide To Old English 5th edition", which is probably the gold standard Tome, and also the Happy Shopper dumbed down "Teach Yourself Old English" by Mark Atherton. Would you consider continuing your series by following one of these books (preferably the Atherton), with your pronunciation, and your personal take on each chapter. much much appreciation and respect to you
what a long strange trip it's been...here i am, dude from queens new york, chomping on indian naan bread, burning tibetan incense, playing the violin, and learning the roots of this dear language of ours, which sounds like amusing babble to the neighbors! awesome !
Thank you for these lessons . I am trying to read some olkd old books that have been in my family for long long periods of time , near to falling apart , in Old English and whilst some is obvious otherwise it is a foriegn to me. As you can see , my modern English is foreign to me... So thank you again.
Some people have told me that American's ruined the English language...but I don't think we did. I guess just how New English came along, that's how American English is. There are some changes but it's still very similar to British English. Of course there are many different slang and pronunciations, but generally it's pretty much the same. Also I love these videos that you do! They are very informative and fun.
Ēalā Frēond! What you've posted so far has been helpful. I've been self-studying AS for most of the present year (2011) and am presently reading the Gospels in the Old English tongue. I'm somewhat intimidated by Beowulf, but have that as an ultimate goal. Perhaps it would be good for you to tell us about your own experiences with AS, what pitfalls to avoid, and where you wish it might lead you. Bēo þū hāl!
what I'm interested in is being to be able to read aloud the poems from the time and be able to get my tongue around the words, poems like Deor or the wanderer The Seafarer so I build up my command of pronunciation until I can read some of the great works like Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon out loud.... any chance of a karaoke style lesson ?
Thank you for doing this series, and making it easy to understand. I like learning more about Old English. As a sometime teacher of German, it is especially interesting to see how much closer the languages were in the distant past, with the grammar structure and vocabulary. Modern German: der Hund (m) -dog, der Vogel (m)- bird; ich habe - I have. German still uses the feminine (die), masculine (der), neuter (das) as well as adjective endings. However, it does not use the "th" sound.
Where I want to learn more about the old English phrases, at my college I looked no further than the Oxford dictionary, filled with texts from the 9th century to today
I wish you could be a professional and teach this world wide so we Eiglish folk can lurn are own tung once more. I think your are doing an amazing job so keep up the good work please. Have an amazing day
should it be? how will you decide which period of old english is going to be tought? or would you have high school kids to know about all the periods of the english language? it would be sort of cool though :)
Watched your posts and they're great! I am born in England to Scottish parents but brought up in Glasgow so have the accent, am also a German speaker after my stint in the army, could understand you before you gave me the translation in most cases;-)
I am interested in linguistics and I always want to know about phonetic of the ancient language like OE, but I found it's hard to get the right pronunciation of them. Thanks for your video works! English is not my mother tongue, I don't know if I am speaking properly or not. But all I want to say is " Hey well done, thanks for your sharing! ". keep going on, I'm looking forward your new videos;))
After looking this 5 Old English lessons I´m quite surprised how close old English is to german. I knew that this two languages are related, but I didn´t knew or even heard a single old english word until I saw this lessons. Vowels and spelling and the grammar, as shown, are so familiar to the old german language as well. For every single term which was mentioned in this 5 lessons I know the related german term which also sounds familiar or similar by having the same or but at least a similar meaning. Now I´m quite sure that 1000 years ago, an old English guy and an old german guy would have been able to have a proper conversation only by using their own native languages.
I'm LOVING these! Some stuff about regular and irregular verbs and how they conjugate would be good, as well as one on conjunctions. One thing I noticed is that, thanks to these lessons, I'm starting to visualise how words are spelled. That said, if there are silent letters in Old English, that would be good to know. I am seeing parallels to both Old Norse (Icelandic) & Modern German, so I wonder if it's just "pronounce EVERYTHING" lol Wynn and Friþ!
I find most interesting the words whose descendants can still be found in English (or other existing languages) today. If you could do a video on a collection of words that have yielded interesting variations of those we still have in our language today, that would be VERY interesting. (Perhaps a word that had one meaning in Old English that evolved into something with a fairly different meaning, or really anything surprising/interesting.)
Please Please, make more videos. I know some English inspite of not living in any native English country, but nevertheless I'm passionate about the language and history. My idea for a video would probably be a reading of any poem in old English.
Perhaps you could do a lesson on simple locations. "Where are you?" "I'm over here." "Where is he?" "He is there!" It'd be extremely simple, but would be an integral part of the core vocabulary of anyone trying to speak Old English.
If you plan on making this again (which I hope you do), how about numbers and time keeping (days, parts of a day, parts of a night, month names, etc.)? Just a thought
I think something you could have done was different countries, peoples or places of the world in Old English. For example, the Normans or Normandy, the French or the Norse? Perhaps Old English words for the Irish, Scottish or Welsh and the peoples in these countries? I dunno if you've gotten a little disinterested in the lessons by this point, it has been a year, but I'd still love to see a proper 6th lesson with you telling us.
Variant words and their origins would be interesting to cover. You mention _wessan_ or something like that, and I've heard of _beon_. Is one of them from Old Norse?
Reading the Saxon Tales by Cornwell. That means I'd love to hear the names of at least the major cities in England. All of them in the stories might be really great!
I wonder if 'wettan' or however it's spelt is related to the scandinavian 'wotan' which is a really old name for Odin I believe. The link between 'wettan' as meaning 'wise man' and Wetan/Wotan/Woden/Odin being an old wandering wizard type figure.
Ah, a bit like modern German then. :) Yeah, I understand about some letters being pronounced differently, thanks. Oh, I've had another thought for future videos...how about imperatives and commands like "Sit down!", "Drink up!", "Come here!" etc? Thanks so much for doing these! Wynn & Friþ! x
Could you make a video (or several...:) of you reciting Old English poetry, along with subtitles? If its slow enough and we can hear what you are saying and read how it was spelled it would be a great help - and a pleasure :) Thanks for your videos!
Hi, Thanks for this intro. Any more on the way? May I suggest some vocab like, relative sizes, numbers, seasons and the weather, food eating and cooking. Thanks again.
Why have you stopped? Anyway, if you're thinking about continuing: names of plants and trees, history of place names, items round a house or town, food, geographical items etc there's plenty of material to go on here
Thanks. You have taught a lot of basics with little pain. Some pointers to elementary texts for amateurs would be useful. Who wrote the texts? Clerics? Lawyers? Would they contain much that reflected the world of the man on the Clapham dung cart?
I learned several kinds of Old English nouns and verbs already but trying to piece together those words in a simple sentence is difficult even speaking them. How exactly do you pronounce "sylfum" and "Deór"?
Very interesting, it looks to me that this old English has a lot in common with the Icelandic language, could it be that they originate from same language, that is from Scandinavia.
In regard to "Hada MariSa 2 months ago in reply to AAmirkhanov But what I don't understand is how English became so simple that now there's only one definite article for every single noun and two indefinite articles (and an specific rule for where to use them), also the use of the verbs which are almost no conjugated or very simply conjugated", Maybe from a creolization-type process? Is Middle English essentially a creole of Englisc and Norman French?
I really enjoy your videos :D I'm studying English and I'm interested in Old English. By the way, do you know if there is a master's degree in OE in UK?
Such a pity there are no more classes! you explain that in such a simple way! i have an exam in january. - on the history of english... im pretty scared. But thatnks - the videos are very helpful!
I would like to see a video of you just speaking in OE the whole time,just talking about everyday life. It would be interesting to see what it would be like if the language was still around and some guy bitching about his wife in OE lol. Serioulsy though,you should do that.
Hi (don't know your name) re Lesson 5 what did the AS call the Normans (politely) also the other peoples around them Welsh/Wales, Irish/Ireland, Flanders etc, - I am enjoying these vids, please continue. Thanks
Though it may be late for your area of interest.. Beowulf would be interesting... or some of the shorter poems from the Exeter Book... we can learn grammar and vocabulary by learning a poem along with you...
Hey I am an english ex-pat living in the states, came here for father's occupation- which is that of a professor Please email me and husband attached ecblackbourn@gmail.com about old english and it's revitalization. Thanks for posting these tutorials has been very helpful in helping me reconnect with my British roots.
But what I don't understand is how English became so simple that now there's only one definite article for every single noun and two indefinite articles (and an specific rule for where to use them), also the use of the verbs which are almost no conjugated or very simply conjugated
If you're going for an earlier period (which you are, judging by your reading of the "sc" cluster), you should always pronounce the "y" in "Ængelcynn" as [y], rather than [I]. The "y" in "cynn" is a direct result of i-mutation umlauting the initially-stressed "u" in pre-historic English "*kunni". Early spellings of the word preserve this word-final "i" (ex. "cynidom in Epinal-Erfurt), which was eventually unstressed and "schwa'd" to "e", before vanishing altogether.
It's also technically a dead language and it's obviously very different from the modern English we speak today. The Norman invasion left a massive impact on our language.
I have always had a, maybe, foolish dream, that theEnglish should learn old english as a second language, in much the same way as the Welsh and Irish learn their languages. and I would LOVE to see all public signs in both modern and old english. I think it would give the English a much needed renewed pride in themselves and their great history.
I'm not even English, I'm Australian and I agree with you.
That's a truly fantastic idea.
Also Australian here and I also agree this should be implemented in both the colony's and the U.K
Only if it was written in Futhorc, too!
John Cross I salute you for that but England has been so overran by the PC crowd that it would never happen unless the English would rebel and reclaim their homeland from the foreigners that have overtaken them.
not even a native english speaker and i agree. I love the language and its roots.
Thank you so much for this. As an aging Canadian who has been fortunate enough to live and work in several languages, including Chinese, French, German, Russian and a few more, I recently delved into Swedish and found it constantly brought a smile to my face. Quite by accident I picked up a book I found many (many!) years ago in Providence, Rhode Island on Old English and found the smile was even wider. Maybe Lamarkian genetics has something. There is a feeling of belonging and roots to this that really merits attention. I am sure the quality of current English would benefit immensely from a better unerstanding of its roots, just as we all benefit immensely from a closer examination of your own roots. Much appreciated.
Maybe you could teach about things in the kitchen? Nature such as river, sea, island and everything related to the Old English? Or professions in Old England? Political and administration of the Old English? I guess there are many things that you can teach. Thanks I love all your videos. It portrays English spirit as well as introducing the precious hidden part of England.
If this channel is still active I'd love to hear numbers, colours, simple household objects, weapons and tools, etc
I'm not sure exactly why it happened but I'm glad it did.
I really wish the channel owner would keep making these videos. I haven't had much luck finding Anglo-Saxon resources on the web thus far.
England should adopt the White Dragon as its flag, have St Edmund the Martyr as its patron saint, have either Alfred the Great or Harold Godwinson be the national hero rather than a normanised version of King Arthur, have an English Parliament called the Moot (a name which should also apply to all councils), have shires rather than counties etc.
We do have shires, as far as it really matters. All our "counties" are named shire (Derbyshire, Cambridgeshire etcetera) The official terms don't really matter in my opinion if their place names suggest shire.
i have one i hang it proudly on my wall
that'd be pretty cool
I'm off to get a flag. Not sure about changing county names, we have a fair mix and don't need /another/ hundred years war.
Saint and Hero? I'd vote for Alfred as hero and like the idea of Edmund for Saint. They both have the possibility for fabulous stories (in the older sense of the word)
I can't believe I never found these videos until now. It's fascinating how quickly I recognize the these words, and yet how Germanic they sound. I know that English is a Germanic language, but it becomes blatantly obvious as I watch these videos.
Can you type the words out? Can't really get it by just listening to the sound. And also these video are really good. Are there any books that I can read to know more?
EngliscHerewulf..I think you are doing a tremendous job here...something I wish I'd had the energy to do years ago! Please keep up the great work!
Oh these videos are wonderful, thank you! Please, please may we have more? Would love to hear phrases that might have been used in ordinary homes, about daily life. Do keep up the good work...it's fascinating!!
Thank you for this series of lessons.
I am a folk singer whose arm has been twisted into learning some of the /old/ songs aaand
I want to do them properly!
Really great and interesting information. Since it's from five years ago, I imagine that you have moved on to other endeavors, but if you have any spare time, it would be fantastic to see a couple more videos. Thanks!
I enjoyed all these videos, you're so knowledgeable...I "taught" myself through books, and I formed my pronunciations through German, Dutch, Danish, and Icelandic. It's just so good to finally find someone that's knowledgeable, and takes all this seriously.
You definitely have a feel for this. Please keep going!
The brevity of the individual lessons is a major plus. It is helpful to show in written form every word you pronounce.
Suggestions for future lessons: keep going with grammar, perhaps introducing the cases and verb tenses; vocabulary from more domains (now that we know some animals and all the essential family nouns); recite (and invite the viewer to imitate) a few sentences.
I'm an american girl with lost english heritage and I have to say that I love your videos. I wish I could learn to talk like a modern english person, let alone the old english :)
Saxland....wow, that sounds original. I´m a Latina that speaks both English and German, so I'm also amazed by how so many old English words could be considered German if I didn't know better, and if I just guided myself for the pronunciation of certain words.
old english is similar to german in a way, so i'm learning old english before starting german. i feel it might help me understand some of it more. it's also just a cool language to learn.
I would love to see you continue this series! Perhaps a unit on some common nouns, such as foods, clothing, weather, household articles (though I know there wouldn't be all that many of those we would use today!) And I would like to see some on some common verbs and how to conjugate them. Another cool idea would be to include somewhere a list of what were common names of people in Old English. How do you get the Old English letters to type, is there a program for it, or is it something I can do?
Hi how's it going? I would like to learn about some additional Old English items. How about food, measurements, directions (how to ask for and give directions), money (how much does it cost), animal commands, job related items (are you hiring, what is the salary, etc), housing items (buying a house terms, how to rent a flat terms, etc), marriage terms (how to get married, how to request marriage, etc) and how to navigate adult things in daily life (setting appointments, attending classes at University, etc). Thanks for sharing what you shared thus far it has been helpful to me.
Really fascinating and very useful; can we please have a couple of lessons on the on the different classes of Old English verbs; also I find Old English adjectival forms very difficult to grasp - a brief guide to these would be helpful. I agree with the commentator who said that Old English should be in the school curriculum.
Feb of 2024 and still helping people.
I like to see you speaking the words. Visuals help clarify mouth position, so thanks for that! But still want the written word on the screen at the same time.
More lessons would be much appreciated!
just keep on teaching. learning the language of our fathers is exciting and primal; but it is also necessary to better understand the world around us and how it grew.
dear Herewulf, this is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, the best thing on You Tube. I've got Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide To Old English 5th edition", which is probably the gold standard Tome, and also the Happy Shopper dumbed down "Teach Yourself Old English" by Mark Atherton. Would you consider continuing your series by following one of these books (preferably the Atherton), with your pronunciation, and your personal take on each chapter. much much appreciation and respect to you
what a long strange trip it's been...here i am, dude from queens new york, chomping on indian naan bread, burning tibetan incense, playing the violin, and learning the roots of this dear language of ours, which sounds like amusing babble to the neighbors! awesome !
Thank you for these lessons . I am trying to read some olkd old books that have been in my family for long long periods of time , near to falling apart , in Old English and whilst some is obvious otherwise it is a foriegn to me. As you can see , my modern English is foreign to me... So thank you again.
Some people have told me that American's ruined the English language...but I don't think we did. I guess just how New English came along, that's how American English is. There are some changes but it's still very similar to British English. Of course there are many different slang and pronunciations, but generally it's pretty much the same. Also I love these videos that you do! They are very informative and fun.
Ēalā Frēond!
What you've posted so far has been helpful. I've been self-studying AS for most of the present year (2011) and am presently reading the Gospels in the Old English tongue. I'm somewhat intimidated by Beowulf, but have that as an ultimate goal. Perhaps it would be good for you to tell us about your own experiences with AS, what pitfalls to avoid, and where you wish it might lead you.
Bēo þū hāl!
what I'm interested in is being to be able to read aloud the poems from the time and be able to get my tongue around the words, poems like Deor or the wanderer The Seafarer so I build up my command of pronunciation until I can read some of the great works like Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon out loud.... any chance of a karaoke style lesson ?
Thank you for doing this series, and making it easy to understand. I like learning more about Old English. As a sometime teacher of German, it is especially interesting to see how much closer the languages were in the distant past, with the grammar structure and vocabulary. Modern German: der Hund (m) -dog, der Vogel (m)- bird; ich habe - I have. German still uses the feminine (die), masculine (der), neuter (das) as well as adjective endings. However, it does not use the "th" sound.
Where I want to learn more about the old English phrases, at my college I looked no further than the Oxford dictionary, filled with texts from the 9th century to today
I found your lessons very informative!
I wish you could be a professional and teach this world wide so we Eiglish folk can lurn are own tung once more. I think your are doing an amazing job so keep up the good work please. Have an amazing day
should it be? how will you decide which period of old english is going to be tought? or would you have high school kids to know about all the periods of the english language?
it would be sort of cool though :)
Watched your posts and they're great! I am born in England to Scottish parents but brought up in Glasgow so have the accent, am also a German speaker after my stint in the army, could understand you before you gave me the translation in most cases;-)
I am interested in linguistics and I always want to know about phonetic of the ancient language like OE, but I found it's hard to get the right pronunciation of them. Thanks for your video works! English is not my mother tongue, I don't know if I am speaking properly or not. But all I want to say is " Hey well done, thanks for your sharing! ". keep going on, I'm looking forward your new videos;))
This is so awesome it makes actual current "awesome" equal to "okay"
After looking this 5 Old English lessons I´m quite surprised how close old English is to german. I knew that this two languages are related, but I didn´t knew or even heard a single old english word until I saw this lessons. Vowels and spelling and the grammar, as shown, are so familiar to the old german language as well.
For every single term which was mentioned in this 5 lessons I know the related german term which also sounds familiar or similar by having the same or but at least a similar meaning. Now I´m quite sure that 1000 years ago, an old English guy and an old german guy would have been able to have a proper conversation only by using their own native languages.
I think all the videos your are submited related to Old Englsih are very interesting.Thank you-
I'm LOVING these! Some stuff about regular and irregular verbs and how they conjugate would be good, as well as one on conjunctions. One thing I noticed is that, thanks to these lessons, I'm starting to visualise how words are spelled. That said, if there are silent letters in Old English, that would be good to know. I am seeing parallels to both Old Norse (Icelandic) & Modern German, so I wonder if it's just "pronounce EVERYTHING" lol Wynn and Friþ!
GOD BLESS YOU...
I find most interesting the words whose descendants can still be found in English (or other existing languages) today. If you could do a video on a collection of words that have yielded interesting variations of those we still have in our language today, that would be VERY interesting. (Perhaps a word that had one meaning in Old English that evolved into something with a fairly different meaning, or really anything surprising/interesting.)
Please Please, make more videos. I know some English inspite of not living in any native English country, but nevertheless I'm passionate about the language and history. My idea for a video would probably be a reading of any poem in old English.
do a lesson on nouns and tenses
Wherever I go… you’re there…
Great videos, and am sorry they seem to have finished. Would love to learn more.
Perhaps you could do a lesson on simple locations. "Where are you?" "I'm over here." "Where is he?" "He is there!"
It'd be extremely simple, but would be an integral part of the core vocabulary of anyone trying to speak Old English.
If you plan on making this again (which I hope you do), how about numbers and time keeping (days, parts of a day, parts of a night, month names, etc.)? Just a thought
Great lessons! Thanks. How about some conversation in Old English? (Or pubs, of course!)
I think something you could have done was different countries, peoples or places of the world in Old English.
For example, the Normans or Normandy, the French or the Norse? Perhaps Old English words for the Irish, Scottish or Welsh and the peoples in these countries?
I dunno if you've gotten a little disinterested in the lessons by this point, it has been a year, but I'd still love to see a proper 6th lesson with you telling us.
Variant words and their origins would be interesting to cover. You mention _wessan_ or something like that, and I've heard of _beon_. Is one of them from Old Norse?
Reading the Saxon Tales by Cornwell. That means I'd love to hear the names of at least the major cities in England. All of them in the stories might be really great!
I wonder if 'wettan' or however it's spelt is related to the scandinavian 'wotan' which is a really old name for Odin I believe. The link between 'wettan' as meaning 'wise man' and Wetan/Wotan/Woden/Odin being an old wandering wizard type figure.
Wait, these videos are over 10 years old?? Shoot, I was hoping to use these to start writing some Old English poetry! 😅
Ah, a bit like modern German then. :) Yeah, I understand about some letters being pronounced differently, thanks. Oh, I've had another thought for future videos...how about imperatives and commands like "Sit down!", "Drink up!", "Come here!" etc? Thanks so much for doing these! Wynn & Friþ! x
we still say it some of those ways in my town in Norway:D there is actually a Viking camp very close to it that just opened ...so watch out...
Could you make a video (or several...:) of you reciting Old English poetry, along with subtitles? If its slow enough and we can hear what you are saying and read how it was spelled it would be a great help - and a pleasure :) Thanks for your videos!
Hi, Thanks for this intro. Any more on the way? May I suggest some vocab like, relative sizes, numbers, seasons and the weather, food eating and cooking. Thanks again.
Why have you stopped? Anyway, if you're thinking about continuing: names of plants and trees, history of place names, items round a house or town, food, geographical items etc there's plenty of material to go on here
Thanks. You have taught a lot of basics with little pain.
Some pointers to elementary texts for amateurs would be useful.
Who wrote the texts? Clerics? Lawyers?
Would they contain much that reflected the world of the man on the Clapham dung cart?
BUSS -BridPlot how abou people names johnny , ivan .emma . guy,
becky
This REALY needs to teached to the kids in school!!!
Would you have any suggestions on where to find further material on learning more on this? Links to videos, sites or anything in between?
Excellent series Herewulf!
I learned several kinds of Old English nouns and verbs already but trying to piece together those words in a simple sentence is difficult even speaking them. How exactly do you pronounce "sylfum" and "Deór"?
You are a really really good teacher. I'd love to learn more so I can speak Old English more fluently. =)
would love to see some more of these. Im interested to learn more if you can mate.
Very interesting, it looks to me that this old English has a lot in common with the Icelandic language, could it be that they originate from same language, that is from Scandinavia.
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2 months ago
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But what I don't understand is how English became so simple that now there's only one definite article for every single noun and two indefinite articles (and an specific rule for where to use them), also the use of the verbs which are almost no conjugated or very simply conjugated",
Maybe from a creolization-type process? Is Middle English essentially a creole of Englisc and Norman French?
English Poetry would be nice to hear...
I really enjoy your videos :D I'm studying English and I'm interested in Old English. By the way, do you know if there is a master's degree in OE in UK?
Thank you for the video's that you've made.you voice makes it quite interesting to listen to. Thank you
I really wanna learn more about this
GREAT! 😊
Such a pity there are no more classes! you explain that in such a simple way! i have an exam in january. - on the history of english... im pretty scared. But thatnks - the videos are very helpful!
You probably know this already, but Stephen Pollington is a good resource.
Do you happen to have a book suggestion to learn with?
Really enjoy your videos, how about one on arms and armor? or battle related stuff?
Be thou well
Superb, informative videos.
I would like to see a video of you just speaking in OE the whole time,just talking about everyday life. It would be interesting to see what it would be like if the language was still around and some guy bitching about his wife in OE lol. Serioulsy though,you should do that.
Hi (don't know your name) re Lesson 5 what did the AS call the Normans (politely) also the other peoples around them Welsh/Wales, Irish/Ireland, Flanders etc, - I am enjoying these vids, please continue. Thanks
Hey! I hope you're still alive, and once you'll visit your page again. Your lessons were awesome! I want more. You're really talanted!
Excellent Lessons....
Though it may be late for your area of interest.. Beowulf would be interesting... or some of the shorter poems from the Exeter Book... we can learn grammar and vocabulary by learning a poem along with you...
These are really awesome. Cheers
Where's the lesson on pubs? We are very thirsty waiting! Thanks for the vids you have done. Great work young Geezer.
Hey I am an english ex-pat living in the states, came here for father's occupation- which is that of a professor
Please email me and husband attached ecblackbourn@gmail.com about old english and it's revitalization. Thanks for posting these tutorials has been very helpful in helping me reconnect with my British roots.
But what I don't understand is how English became so simple that now there's only one definite article for every single noun and two indefinite articles (and an specific rule for where to use them), also the use of the verbs which are almost no conjugated or very simply conjugated
Please continue, EngliscHerewulf...I ask from one Wolf to another!
I know this is a bit late but I would like to hear complete sentences.
If you're going for an earlier period (which you are, judging by your reading of the "sc" cluster), you should always pronounce the "y" in "Ængelcynn" as [y], rather than [I]. The "y" in "cynn" is a direct result of i-mutation umlauting the initially-stressed "u" in pre-historic English "*kunni". Early spellings of the word preserve this word-final "i" (ex. "cynidom in Epinal-Erfurt), which was eventually unstressed and "schwa'd" to "e", before vanishing altogether.
I am teaching myseld Old English, and your videos are really helpful! Thank you so much!
It's also technically a dead language and it's obviously very different from the modern English we speak today. The Norman invasion left a massive impact on our language.
what happened to these and is there somewhere I can go to learn more?
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE CAN I GET A BOOK COVERING THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE??????
cool, thanks for the info
Could u write a textbook or something on how to speak old english?
Could you please write all Old English words you teach in the description box?
@TheNonsubscribable That's called the Direct Method you don't understand what Krashen's term really means
Verstehst du Nieder Deutsch? Es ist auch ähnlich mit Alte Englisch
Do you have Facebook, Twitter or so?
I didn't really look at it that way. Thanks and you're absolutely right.
I like to watch your videos, why don't you make more videos?
Does WERIAN SE ANGELCYNN mean we are the Englisc or am wrong?