Wyrd is the glory of Anglo-Saxon culture. Even after the basic conversion to Christianity, it was said among the new layman Anglo-Saxon converts that "Christ is strong, but Wyrd is stronger." Wyrd is the fate-forming power of everything we still don't know about Reality. Wyrd is still alive now in the world/universe because no one (NO ONE) knows everything about Reality. All praise and honor to Wyrd.
I honestly appreciate your positive reply, but I see Wyrd as something different. There is not enough space here to really go into this, but I don't see Wyrd as something reducible to that Vedic/Hindu principle. I am quite capable of articulating my position on this, but as I said there is not enough space here. I mean I don't want to appear to be attempting to impose. This is your channel. If you want to discuss this, I am open to that, but I am not going to assume anything. Thanks for acknowledging my comment.
@@Survivethejive Etymologically, there are 2 layers: on a synchronic level, Wyrd simply means 'Becoming' like the German cognate werden 'to become'. On a diachronic level, Wyrd is from the Indo-European root *wert 'to turn', as in the Latin verto 'I turn', hence 'convert' in English, a cognate of Wyrd. On a cosmic level, the time-measuring Sun and the Moon are the cosmic embodiment of Wyrd. On a physical level, the Wheel, like the Sanskrit cognate Cakra, is the physical embodiment of Wyrd.
Your videos makes the blood in a man's veins remember. Everything is so natural and instinctual. Sometimes just by your choice of music and images you show I understand more than when I hear you explain with words.
Wyrd is also an unbroken web of connections that weave their way through nature and time and space, and most importantly are spun into our hearts directly from our ancestors. Peace to all.
I've watched your movie again and read the poems several times. Well I'm weared enough to go long with wyrdness. These are wise words for a young warrior to hear though he won't understand them til it's to late and then he'll tell the next young warrior who in his turn will not understand them until it's to late. Fatalistic, well I've never seen anyone get out of this world alive. Call it wyrd, or fate, or the luck of the draw. The passing of winters before we know. Dead men lie beneath the snow. A little honor before I go. Death to christian, pagan, athiest All men stand then must fall. From fear they try to hide in dogma tall. But there is no place to hide my friend. In the end there is the end. Ya know the tree of life is not a bad way of describing the world. The final battle is a nice symbolic way of describing that the world will end. How about the fire breathing red dragon (comet). Is this a story about dinosaurs. Our ancestors knew the truth. It is the same truth. Thank u Have fun it is later than u think. Take care Thomas. Gare
Thank you for the content you produce. It means a lot. We true Englishmen need to find ways to connect otherwise we will be lost in this new globalist world. We need a way to gather to be amongst one another. Otherwise we will be lost in the now globalist land of England. In the land of our ancestors I can go days between seeing another Englishman and it's a very isolating experience. Anyone on this channel who lives amongst their own, never ever take it for granted the world I knew only a few decades ago has completely disappeared. The people I knew are gone. It's as if the English have ceased to exist here. Everywhere I look the English are missing and I fear for the next generation.
Anglo Saxon is connected to the old Low German dialect 'Plattdeutch' still spoken in areas of northern Germany today. My 3x great grandfather came from Mecklenberg Schwerin (his granddaughter being my Danish great-granny.) Little did he know he'd have an English descendant speaking a language similar to him! I love your channel and such beautiful music by Vaughan Williams in this lovely little film.
STJ could you please make a video about learning Old English? There are resources online and even Amazon UK has some books but it would be nice to hear from somebody who has learned the language
+clangerbasher I wonder if he actually learned it, i would think it would be a bit too hard and impractical. You could learn it to the level where you could read most of it and pronounce it properly, but only a few linguists or historians focusing on anglo-saxons would be able to do conversation which is my criteria for knowing a language.
***** I have dipped my toe into the water reading it as much as I can. I do know what you mean, but I didn't mean it to that extent. Old English is only as complicated, probably less so actually, than say Gaelic or learning a Scandinavian language. Funnily enough I was in a back and forth in TH-cams comments with somebody because I said something similar to what you have just said about learning English and foreign languages beyond the holiday phrasebook (or smart phone equivalent!)
+clangerbasher I learned it well enough to pass a test for my degree but I couldn't hold up much of a conversation with an Anglo-Saxon if I met one. There is a TH-cam channel called Leornende Eald Englisc
Survive the Jive Similarity, the Dutch maybe lost their various tones as you can only find nowadays in folk music. I can still talk with Danish, Swedish and Norse people each in its own language.
I would think the closest would be Plattdeutch, since it descends directly from Saxon-that is, modern Saxon spoken in parts of the old Saxon homeland- (of the Ingaevonic brance of Western Germanic languages). Dutch os descended from Frankish. But most West germanic languages (Old English, Dutch, Frisian, and the North German dialects) do sound rather alike. East (like Bavarian) and South German dialects (though of course also West Germanic) often sound a bit different to me. Maybe it's the Celtic substratum (however much that may exist, esp. in phonology).
(to somewhat correct my last comment): Apparently, modern Frisian is likely not as much derived from the ancient language of the earlier local Frisii tribe (decimated in late antiquity), as from their neighbors and close relatives, the early Saxons. So, my mistake. But Dutch woild be slightly different, being Istaevonic (within West Germanic), rather than ingaevonic like modern Frisian and old Saxon/English/Plattdeutch (and likely old Frisii).
I read some article that anglo-saxon is just a transition language. It doesn't sound anything like platt deutsch or low countries Saxon dialect to me btw.
And I think "geare" might relate to the "geren" part of words like "begeren" which means to love. Here it seems to fulfill a role like "to take responsibility for" - "to be able to support/manifest"
I am interested to learn Anglo Saxon. I will have to try and learn from recordings here. However, I have an idea, it is odd. My idea is to suggest forming an Anglo Saxon conversational group. Maybe it is too weird. I live in Spain 50% of the time and attend English\Spanish conversational groups. They work well. Could be to make the learning of OE more appealing, a group would not just deal with written OE but speak it also. What do you think?
Just stunning. Beautifully read sir. Can you tell me what the piece of music is please? It’s frustrating me as I am sure Im know what it is. The first movement in something I think.
Tom I'm just beginning to get into anglo Saxon history but I don't really know where to start, is there any books or websites you would recommend for beginners ?
+loltube2012 The Way of Wyrd by Brian Bates is a nice place to start. It's a work of fiction, however it's based on ancient Anglo Saxon texts and is written to convey the beliefs and practices of the time accurately. It has a nice bibliography too. An excellent gateway for those who are interested!
@@SuperThischannel we should all respect each other’s cultures and beliefs . We all have something to teach and something to learn . Hatred will beget hatred. Nothing to be gained by sowing the seeds of division
Wyrd is the glory of Anglo-Saxon culture. Even after the basic conversion to Christianity, it was said among the new layman Anglo-Saxon converts that "Christ is strong, but Wyrd is stronger." Wyrd is the fate-forming power of everything we still don't know about Reality. Wyrd is still alive now in the world/universe because no one (NO ONE) knows everything about Reality. All praise and honor to Wyrd.
I see wyrd as the Anglo-Saxon version of the Aryan rta
I honestly appreciate your positive reply, but I see Wyrd as something different. There is not enough space here to really go into this, but I don't see Wyrd as something reducible to that Vedic/Hindu principle. I am quite capable of articulating my position on this, but as I said there is not enough space here. I mean I don't want to appear to be attempting to impose. This is your channel. If you want to discuss this, I am open to that, but I am not going to assume anything. Thanks for acknowledging my comment.
Wyrd == Logos
@@Survivethejive Etymologically, there are 2 layers: on a synchronic level, Wyrd simply means 'Becoming' like the German cognate werden 'to become'. On a diachronic level, Wyrd is from the Indo-European root *wert 'to turn', as in the Latin verto 'I turn', hence 'convert' in English, a cognate of Wyrd. On a cosmic level, the time-measuring Sun and the Moon are the cosmic embodiment of Wyrd. On a physical level, the Wheel, like the Sanskrit cognate Cakra, is the physical embodiment of Wyrd.
First time a I saw a youtube clip that can be defined as art!
+Mattias Söder Thanks mate
Sigh.....if only Micheal Angelo had a GoPro ;)
My god man this is beautiful. I admit it brought tears to my eyes. May we all see woden
Same here boss i cried too 😭💪🙏
Your videos makes the blood in a man's veins remember. Everything is so natural and instinctual. Sometimes just by your choice of music and images you show I understand more than when I hear you explain with words.
Wyrd is also an unbroken web of connections that weave their way through nature and time and space, and most importantly are spun into our hearts directly from our ancestors.
Peace to all.
So glad I found this channel. You look like you had a lot of fun.
Absolutely, chillingly beautiful.
Pleased to watch this at the start of Autumn,the seasons turn, we Saxons live on.
Thank you so much for making this video in Old English with translation. Wyrd needs to be discussed about more. Loved the scenery!
I've watched your movie again and read the poems several times. Well I'm weared enough to go long with wyrdness. These are wise words for a young warrior to hear though he won't understand them til it's to late and then he'll tell the next young warrior who in his turn will not understand them until it's to late. Fatalistic, well I've never seen anyone get out of this world alive.
Call it wyrd, or fate, or the luck of the draw.
The passing of winters before we know.
Dead men lie beneath the snow.
A little honor before I go.
Death to christian, pagan, athiest
All men stand then must fall.
From fear they try to hide in dogma tall.
But there is no place to hide my friend.
In the end there is the end.
Ya know the tree of life is not a bad way of describing the world. The final battle is a nice symbolic way of describing that the world will end. How about the fire breathing red dragon (comet). Is this a story about dinosaurs.
Our ancestors knew the truth. It is the same truth.
Thank u Have fun it is later than u think. Take care Thomas. Gare
wyrd and fate are much the same thing. Thanks Gary
The fire dragon is welsh , the battle of the fire and ice dragon welsh v Englisc
Gary Chynne I watch a lot of videos skål
Another great video. Inexpressible beauty. Thank you.
The sounds of the language are so hypnotic I feel like I can hear it in some deep forgotten recess. Wyrd. ❤
Anglo Saxon English is very unique among the Germanic languages in my opinion
Just call it Englisc, they did...
How so?
@ᛖᚹᛖᚱᛏ ᚷᛟᛚᛞᛊᛏᛖᛖᚾ .. but English was _not_ like them? There's some contemporary language that it was similar to, but I forget what :|
@@russianbotfarm3036 Frisian?
Not really. I'd rather call Old High German unique thanks to it's unusual sound shift
2021 here..oh the heartbreaking loss of old languages 😥☘️
Thank you for the content you produce. It means a lot.
We true Englishmen need to find ways to connect otherwise we will be lost in this new globalist world. We need a way to gather to be amongst one another. Otherwise we will be lost in the now globalist land of England.
In the land of our ancestors I can go days between seeing another Englishman and it's a very isolating experience.
Anyone on this channel who lives amongst their own, never ever take it for granted the world I knew only a few decades ago has completely disappeared. The people I knew are gone. It's as if the English have ceased to exist here. Everywhere I look the English are missing and I fear for the next generation.
I am weeping thank you thank you thank you
🤗
I've wanted to learn for 15 years. I'm clueless to know how.
Beautiful video, man. I like this channel.
Very beautiful video! Thank You!
You read this so well! It sounded amazing sir :)
That was great, man. It stirs my genetic memory I think
Anglo Saxon is connected to the old Low German dialect 'Plattdeutch' still spoken in areas of northern Germany today. My 3x great grandfather came from Mecklenberg Schwerin (his granddaughter being my Danish great-granny.) Little did he know he'd have an English descendant speaking a language similar to him! I love your channel and such beautiful music by Vaughan Williams in this lovely little film.
This old video was suggested to me. It is great.
For those with youngins (or those young at heart) - do check out the animated production of Terry Pratchett's "The Wyrd Sisters".
Here it is on jewtube:
th-cam.com/video/kIGv0tLPRUM/w-d-xo.html
Traditional Indo-European anime.
Respect for learning Old English.
Spoken like a true anglo saxton. Where did you learn the language?
+Purple burd UCL
@@Survivethejive To me it sounded like Elvish, did Tolkien base it off Old English?
@@Glockler Elvish is based off the Welsh language of the some time period.
Your videos are really great! Whenever I have the pleasure of watching one I sense something ancient stirring inside of me.
Master and Commander music. Hell Yeah. Great video.
Good choice of music - it compliments your video well.
One of your best! Thank you.
+ThodorOfTheNine Glad you think so
Brilliant video.this should be heeded by all.I'd especially recommend young folk to take it to heart.
Goosebumps...
Just beautiful.
Thank u Gare
Incredible video!
Very moving, would love to start learning this language.
it is a beautiful language
This video is different: usually tour videos are "Very Indoeuropean" but this one is THE INDOEUROPEANEST!
Þæt wæs wundorful.
Wonderful!
STJ could you please make a video about learning Old English? There are resources online and even Amazon UK has some books but it would be nice to hear from somebody who has learned the language
+clangerbasher I wonder if he actually learned it, i would think it would be a bit too hard and impractical. You could learn it to the level where you could read most of it and pronounce it properly, but only a few linguists or historians focusing on anglo-saxons would be able to do conversation which is my criteria for knowing a language.
***** I have dipped my toe into the water reading it as much as I can. I do know what you mean, but I didn't mean it to that extent. Old English is only as complicated, probably less so actually, than say Gaelic or learning a Scandinavian language. Funnily enough I was in a back and forth in TH-cams comments with somebody because I said something similar to what you have just said about learning English and foreign languages beyond the holiday phrasebook (or smart phone equivalent!)
+clangerbasher I learned it well enough to pass a test for my degree but I couldn't hold up much of a conversation with an Anglo-Saxon if I met one. There is a TH-cam channel called Leornende Eald Englisc
Survive the Jive Thanks. :)
Sounds a bit Dutch; it has most in common I heave read to current day Frisian.
+OhFortunae Yes that is true, but I often find it sounds more like Swedish to me
Survive the Jive Similarity, the Dutch maybe lost their various tones as you can only find nowadays in folk music. I can still talk with Danish, Swedish and Norse people each in its own language.
I would think the closest would be Plattdeutch, since it descends directly from Saxon-that is, modern Saxon spoken in parts of the old Saxon homeland- (of the Ingaevonic brance of Western Germanic languages). Dutch os descended from Frankish. But most West germanic languages (Old English, Dutch, Frisian, and the North German dialects) do sound rather alike. East (like Bavarian) and South German dialects (though of course also West Germanic) often sound a bit different to me. Maybe it's the Celtic substratum (however much that may exist, esp. in phonology).
(to somewhat correct my last comment): Apparently, modern Frisian is likely not as much derived from the ancient language of the earlier local Frisii tribe (decimated in late antiquity), as from their neighbors and close relatives, the early Saxons. So, my mistake. But Dutch woild be slightly different, being Istaevonic (within West Germanic), rather than ingaevonic like modern Frisian and old Saxon/English/Plattdeutch (and likely old Frisii).
I read some article that anglo-saxon is just a transition language. It doesn't sound anything like platt deutsch or low countries Saxon dialect to me btw.
In the beginning was the wyrd
And I think "geare" might relate to the "geren" part of words like "begeren" which means to love. Here it seems to fulfill a role like "to take responsibility for" - "to be able to support/manifest"
My god man this should be required watching! How did you soften into a cup of tea from your bad AF original start
Absolutely fantastic.
I am interested to learn Anglo Saxon. I will have to try and learn from recordings here. However, I have an idea, it is odd. My idea is to suggest forming an Anglo Saxon conversational group. Maybe it is too weird. I live in Spain 50% of the time and attend English\Spanish conversational groups. They work well. Could be to make the learning of OE more appealing, a group would not just deal with written OE but speak it also. What do you think?
I am fascinated listening to the language of my ancestors. I would love to be able to speak it, but then again, who would I talk to?
You could use it in prayers
Just stunning. Beautifully read sir. Can you tell me what the piece of music is please? It’s frustrating me as I am sure Im know what it is. The first movement in something I think.
Thomas Tallis
Nice one, mate. Subbed. ;)
This is beautiful.
Sublime.
As a younger man I was a musher. Thank you for a good vidya
My goodness this language is beautiful. Is it weird that I'm feeling some sort of instinctal longing?
At the well of wyrd. A fantastic read.
Can someone leave a transcript of this for me?
Very inspiring
Great stuff!
the word for patient is in this video is "gedyldig" with a rune instead of the "g". The modern Dutch word for patient is "geduldig", fascinating
Amazing!
Amazing.
Just great!
That Old English is on point
Can anyone tell me the name of the statue at 0.12 seconds please?
Englisc Anglo Saxon heil woden (Odin) and the Germanic gods , great video ,prost
Vaughan Williams is the most English composer. Change my mind.
Tom I'm just beginning to get into anglo Saxon history but I don't really know where to start, is there any books or websites you would recommend for beginners ?
+loltube2012 The Way of Wyrd by Brian Bates is a nice place to start. It's a work of fiction, however it's based on ancient Anglo Saxon texts and is written to convey the beliefs and practices of the time accurately. It has a nice bibliography too. An excellent gateway for those who are interested!
+loltube2012 Anglo-Saxon paganism by Wilson is highly regarded historical text. Colin Cleary is a good pagan writer
+Survive the Jive cheers mate.
Wyrd to see our ancestors on snow scooters. Very relevant, and not proto Americanese at all..
Powerful
Is it bad that I can understand Old Norse better than Old English?
He went to dree his Wyrd.
georn is like the dutch "blageuren" - which means boasting
If the celtic parts go then this will be my future language, or maybe i'll revive it anyway........
it has no celtic parts
I meant if the uk collapsed politically it would lead to an Anglo Saxon cultural renaissance, resulting in English linguistic purism.
How do Brits feel about non-ethnic-Brits appreciating and embracing their culture?
SuperThischannel how does a man feel about another man admiring his house?
Survive the Jive Indeed. Pre-Roman British culture truly fascinates me.
(I'm a multi-ethnic Persian myself)
@@SuperThischannel we should all respect each other’s cultures and beliefs . We all have something to teach and something to learn . Hatred will beget hatred. Nothing to be gained by sowing the seeds of division
Karma is wierd.... I mean Wyrd
Nice video until the gratuitous snow mobile footage. Seriously, why?? What possible reason could you have for including that?
+Chase B I used the great shoehorn of Heimdall
*****
it was!
Hrype Leah
Free the dogs!
Sound like Dotharki 😱😄
Paarthurnax?!