[PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION] Interview with an Anglo-Saxon in Old English
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.พ. 2019
- DISCLAIMER: This obviously isn't an actual Anglo-Saxon, it's me in a sheet.
RETROACTIVE DISCLAIMER - The Old English in this video comes from a time when I was much more interested in modern and recent dialectology, and is full of grammatical errors (and a number of pronunciation errors, as well). This should absolutely not be used as a reference text for somebody wishing to learn Old English; its main value now is in showing how different Old English is from Modern English, and in presenting an ancient language in a conversational context. My more recent videos are more focused on phonology (which I can talk confidently about) and contain fewer errors when I do use grammatical constructions, although there will certainly still be some dotted about. I'm in the process of making a short film in Old English which I hope to check with somebody else so that the speech is both natural and period-accurate.
Original Description
A fun little thing to show reconstructed pronunciation of Old English in a casual setting. I've tried to throw in a few natural abbreviations (for example 'c rather than ic), but I know I missed the mark on one or two of the diphthongs. Either way, hopefully this gives some idea as to how the language sounded in casual speech. Message or comment if you'd like any clarifications, want to correct me on anything, or if you're just interested in the topic and would like to know more!
I didn't have any decent Anglo-Saxon clothing and, rather than cobble together something inaccurate, I just chucked on a linen sheet to hide my modern shirt. An actual Anglo-Saxon would be wearing something more like the reenactors shown in a couple of the other clips; a man would usually wear a tunic with a belt, although styles would vary massively from decade to decade and from place to place.
This is what the doctor's hand writing sounds like.
Nice
Holy shit bro you posted this from 40 years ago
40 years ago? Damn I feel so old.
Clever name
I think same in every country
Sounds like a danish guy who got drunk, moved to Germany, had a stroke, and then forgot danish, went to college in Scotland, than relearned danish, then he put on a sheet and went in a time machine
As an American, I’m a bit concerned of your timeline of getting drunk before going to college in Scotland
Jessica Wang naturally you’ll get drunk in Scotland. That’s a given
ADFGHJLLGSADHKLG
Anh Lê Nhật whæt
It does sound like that! Greetings from Denmark :)
My brain: *Is this English?*
Me: *yesn't*
This comment is Gold! 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol I love how he's just like "I have 100 sheep, some cattle, what else... Oh yeah a wife, too!"
Don't tell er a forgot again
I love him! Protect him forever.
Priorities 😉
100 sheep he'd be the equivalent of a millionaire back in the day. Probably 5 was a lot.
This is the best comment - needs to be pinned!
Teacher: the listening test isn't hard!
The listening test:
Natalie Ngonela 😂😂
Omg. It's reall😂
Hahah noice
Hahahahah fockin right
Maybe I'm being dumb but what is a listening test?
Microsoft Windows: select Language
English (UK)
English (US)
English (Anglo Saxon) ✔️
🤣💖👍👍👍
Why does that option even exist lmao
Ænglisch*
@@williaml.willowfield2220 LOL😝
@@Catsrcool006 Aye.
DISCLAIMER: This obviously isn't an actual Anglo-Saxon, it's me in a sheet.
But your name's Gabriel, not Baldric!
@@ETB3341 read the video description
@@skyler1887 I know thats what the description says lol.
I'm Flemish (northern part of Belgium) and my dialect sounds very much the same as old English, I can understand quite a lot of it. Before the French influence (1066 French invasion) English sounded very differently, more Germanic. I can easily understand old English, especially when I see it in written.
French didn't really affect English grammar and pronunciation apart from vocabulary and a few things like counting
@@deathonion404 I'm sure you're ricgt about the grammar thing, but it changed from the middle ages till now losing a lot of Germanic caractheristics and becoming much easier and simplier than it was before.
@@DieterRahm1845 yep, I agree
The (true) Flemish had much contact and trade with the English. The people from Brabant (east of the Schelde/Antwerpen/Brussels) ironically also sound much different since linguistical they don't speak Flemish but brabantic and have more in common with people in north-brabants as compared to west-flanders
@@gorkzop I don’t know about “true” Flemish but my father speaks a West Flemish dialect which is spoken on the coastal areas of Belgium and you’re correct in saying that the language spoken there has a lot of similarities with English because of loanwords and similar phonological developments. In comparison, Brabantian dialects spoken in Southern Flanders have had a lot more influence from French
That moment when you need to translate English into English.
A lot of British Dialects are like that.
Old English wasn’t really what we would call English these days. It was more like a precursor to it. It was like a language that evolved _into_ what we know as English.
Honestly, this is about as easy to understand as a deep Southern accent in the USA.
@@connorpusey5912 Then what about English in a 1000 years, that wil have changed and still be English.
@@connorpusey5912 Like American English...
Fluent in Dutch here.
Sounds like a dutchman who had a stroke.
My grandmother was German, And she said Dutch is just a German who had a stroke 😂😂
samed halafi if old English is a mixture of English and Danish, that means we should call it Danglish
Buttnuttz as an Irish person it sounds a bit of Irish/gaelic as well
nickxxv 😂😂😂
@nickxxv 😂😂😂😂
Old English is a really beautiful language, I would like it to be revived ... And this whole simon seems to me to be a pretty cool guy!
Learn Dutch! It's closest to the old germanic languages. Maybe even danish...
Yeap learning German helps too
@@strange4107 as a native English speaker there is a lot of Dutch words that I can understand.
Most Dutch I feel like I should be able to understand, but it’s as if I’ve just had a stroke and get the sentiment but not the meaning
@@strange4107 even better, Icelandic
This is the best impresonation of a documentary i have ever seen.
It actually sounds like English back in the days when I didn't know English
Back when I was a kid (At the dawn of time) I found myself in the odd position of hearing my family talk without being able to understand just what they were saying, and I swear it sounded for all the world like Dutch or something. And I said to myself "this is what it must be like to hear but not speak English."
Exactly =)
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
😂😂
Had the same feeling 😂
"Can you speak any new english at all?"
"Nhyeawuh"
Uhh...... I don’t think that’s how you spell *né*
@@Schwarzorn The next thing I'm about to tell you may come as a surprise, but there's these things called jokes. And one type of these joke things is hyperbole. And this is one of those.
Beepus McBumpus
Well, that’s a pretty bad joke. An exaggeration of something funny to make it funnier, I get. But it wasn’t funny to begin with, and one can only exaggerate to a certain extent before it stops making sense and the connection is lost.
Beepus McBumpus
Well, that’s a pretty bad joke. An exaggeration of something funny to make it funnier, I get. But it wasn’t funny to begin with, and one can only exaggerate to a certain extent before it stops making sense and the connection is lost.
@@Schwarzorn Wow, such an interesting point you felt the need to post it twice for added emphasis. Humour is subjective, I'm glad you didn't like my joke and felt compelled to explain why you think it's not a good joke. 223 other people seemed to like it though, so that's nice.
The number of people who thought this was a real story, that there was a forgotten community of medieval peasants in modern-day England who have preserved Anglo-Saxon culture and live like the English Amish, is kind of funny to me.
Honestly, I did wonder for a long minute if this was real.
Who were those people . I would like to have a word with them .
Imagination
It’s so interesting how old English has many words from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and some Icelandic sounding words too.
I can understand roughly about 70% of this tbh. 👍🏼
It had no words from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. They are modern languages. Old English was almost 100% Old English
mourn for the Anglo Saxon tongue (not "language"), what we are speaking right now is mostly
french with a layer of ?Germanic words.
Yeah, the Danes invaded England and estalblished control in a part of England of what is known as the Danelaw.
Post brexit we will all start speaking like this.
Immediately. The moment it happens. The moment the bill passes. 😂
Fuck yes, i wanna fucking speak like that
then you will speak more close to german
I'm down
That would be AWESOME.
I feel that I should be able to understand him, but I can’t.
YES. THANK YOU.
Well, he's a farmer with 100 sheep.
@@kaziu312 zoom....right over their heads
You probably need to know German and combine it with English
@SomeRandomGuy that really makes sense
“My name is Baldric”
*Blackadder has entered the chat*
🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
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@Bronze Spectre I see what you did there. I won't be a grammar nazi and correct your spelling. I met Tony Robinson once and wanted to chat but I just chickened out and got his autograph instead. I'm such an introverted dick ha ha!
🤣🤣🤣
One of the best things on TH-cam: creative, instructive, sensitive. Please don't stop. Ic þancie þē, þæt is gōd. - (signed) Toomas Karmo, in Nõo Rural Municipality, Estonia
You can't speak modern English?
*nÆeH*
Næ
Nåë
at least hes honest
@@shadysam7161 Ya mean he's, Honæst?
@@thelivingdead1728 or Unf¯æcne.
Danish person here: This sounds like someone trying to speak Danish but are doing so underwater
wait isnt danish the one that sounds that it's being spoken underwater?
Leo Araujo you got the whole squad laughing
no problem mate, I know my sense of humour is fucked because I decided to learn Norwegian instead of Danish.
@@leoaraujo8590 yeah, you gotta start with the basics
@@williamnexo12 Sorry if I'm not into saying "2,5*20" just to say "50", i rather stick with "femti"
As a Dutchman I recognise more of what he's saying from my Dutch experience than my English experience.
For those who are searching for the lyrics of the song at 2:43
Wōden hēng from æsce trēow,
Fugol sæt on sticca bufan,
Drypte from þæs fugles mūþ,
Þā word ‘ic secge simle sōþ.'
That's awesome
Thank you so much. Didn’t know how to search for it on google
This has the same energy as that “what English sound like to non English speakers” video.
Indeed!
TRUE
What British English sounds like to people learning English from some CD that's in slowly spoken US "RP".
i think its some other european country
XneverstopfightingX probably what Scottish sounds like to non-English speakers
This is what talking in cursive sounds like.
No
Lol
Thats danish
He’s speaking italic
I mean, yes, but only if modern English sounds like cursive written by a doctor
can any of my fellow englishmen tell me why we don't celebrate the saxons like the scots/irish/welsh celebrate the celts of old? I'm proud of our anglo ancestors they deserve way more representation.
I guess in a way our language, english, is representation..? but the culture... we should celebrate it more.
because the SJW types try to makes us feel ashamed of our past.
Because your ancestors were like, "man our norman kings and queens sound so cool, meanwhile our germanic language sounds like throat diseases."
@@DarrenMalin And Christianity
@@johnfused8281 true
@@DarrenMalin Not because of SJWs, because of French influence.
"baldrick was originally from a community but they cast him out." this is something i could not relate to more
It kinda sounds like he’s just speaking English but backwards.
I heard that about any other language from such kind of you
Get OFF my territory.
Wtf is this thread?
@@Jaylink15 I'm wondering the exact same thing? Im so confused.
Agree sounds backwards
"DISCLAIMER: This obviously isn't an actual Anglo-Saxon, it's me in a sheet.
"
Best video disclaimer ever lmao
Did snopes confirm that, though?
No kidding, thank you for alerting me to this gem.
Ay I got tha 999 likes to 1k
Really.
Fuck I was high and I thought these ppl still live in remote parts of England or some shit
I am THOROUGHLY enjoying your videos. I’ve always been interested in accents and the evolution of language. Thanks for what you do and please keep it up! 🙏
An amazing video. Very well played. The young man who is an Anglo Saxon speaks Old English in a perfect way, using the idioms of that time. Very impressive
sounds more like German. Now it makes sense it is a Germanic language.
As I took German in High School; I can understand about 85%-90% of it.
Yes, the fact that Englisch is like it is nowadays is because of the normand invasion and the French language. It was through the Norman conquest that the English lost their germanic roots.
James Johansson frisian, an northwest german dialect is 99% similar to this
Well Anglo-Saxons were germanic tribes who conquered todays England terrains in about V century. All them Islandia beleonged to Celts.
@@jamesp.3220 Im German and that's a pretty bold estimation.
German here: I can understand him better when I accept this as a german dialect as If I'd try to understand it as english.
Actually it is a low German dialect lmao
@@andryuu_2000 Of Course. I just wanted to describe that thinking in german tongue, makes it easier to understand than thinking in english.
Ja !
Du hast Recht, verrückte Sache.
as or than I'm confused English isn't my native language
@@huskiehuskerson5300 as and than are sometimes a bit tricky for me as well, because both are in german "als".
Hmm as a German, that sounds like Frisian or Low German (Plattdeutsch) in Low Saxony and like norse maybe Danish?
I commented here a year ago and saw your comment on accident. I do speak Frisian and Flat/Low German fluently and I was able to understand him better than my girlfriend who lives in Austria.
@@ansems3309 Ja das glaub ich dir, der Alpendialekt hat's schon in sich ^^
Aber ich finde es toll das du Plattdeutsch und Friesisch sprichst, gerade jetzt wo die Dialekte verschwinden.
Anglo-Saxon (old English) is directly related to Frisian and Low German(which used to be called Saxon). Good ear!
Anglo Saxons were from Saxony.
@@thematthew761
No, Anglosaxons are from the British isles. They are a mixed group of mostly Angles, Frisians, Saxons and Jutes.
The resemblance to German, Dutch and the Nordic languages is striking. It really demonstrates that English is in the Germanic family of languages, though most of the changes from Old English to Modern English came via Romance languages, primarily Norman French.
When you defreeze a guy from the old days.
Luigino Charles that’s why he’s all wrapped up.
thank you.
True
Ahh shedding light laughter to makes us feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside except that guy he needs a quilt
Defrost
I left auto play on and woke up from a nap to this. Thought I’d had a stroke
Jane Adelaide Lennox AHAHHHHH
Literally laughed out loud 😂💀
I woke up and discovered I had crapped my pants in my sleep...
I’m fucking dying.
Jane Adelaide Lennox hahahaha
What a magnificent piece of work! Simon brings this character totally back to life for us.
Discovered your channel this evening. Just fabulous. Thank you.
You like to learn?
Anglo-Saxon: Yæòú
😂
He did say Jà. not Yæó...
🤣🤣🤣
buster117 😂😂😂😂😂
The Major oof
He really does a good job acting like he's having a lot of trouble with Modern English pronunciation, even looking embarrassed.
it’s acting???
@@mariaminghi4297 Yeah, nobody really speaks Old English as their main language anymore. This man is just Simon Roper dressed in a sheet and acting.
read the description
And him giving up on the rhotic r issue was brilliant
For real. This guy is killing it as an actor.
Found this in my recommended, and it is the best recommended video thus far.
Thank you very much for clarifying in your description. I thought that you had discovered time travel for a sec but the description cleared that up
He sounds like he’s extremely drunk and speaking German
Me as a german can confirm
@@SchimmelAufDemBrot4m der Satzbau scheint mir relativ ähnlich zu sein,:Ya can ic / Nay can ic nik.
Aber es hört sich eher an wie Schwedisch or Dänisch meiner Meinung nach
Altengelsachen ist ein altes Deutsche sprach
Für mich eher norwegisch oder niederländisch als deutsch
@Obiwank Keb34 That's it exactly. Frieslanders were actually among the Saxon invaders of Britain
"not an actual anglo-saxon, it's me in a sheet" best description
To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if Simon was an actual Anglo-Saxon
this is brilliant! even your face and demeanor give sort of an archaic vibe
i founded a languages and linguistics club at my school and im going to show this video as an interest for old english was expressed :)
-Can you speak any new English at all?
-Nyeh
-Would you like to learn?
Me: DON'T CORRUPT HIM!
Nyet
@@highgroundproductions8590 😂😂
Gayy
@@highgroundproductions8590 quay porqos ter catalan
@@vishnnuvijay9096 I don't speak catalan
The fact he looks uncomfortable makes it believable
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeæ
As a native dutch speaker i can understand it for like 70%
Thank you so much for bringing this video back!
Now this is what I call immersive journalism
True Gonzo
@@herrklamm1454 hahaha Gonzo time traveller journalism
Imagine pressing 1 for English and getting that guy for the help desk.
😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
"Sorry, 1 for old english
4 for middle english
9 for modern english"
@@TheStickCollector which modern English though? OUR modern English or Shakespeare's modern English?
@@JillWouters ours
Maybe 7 should be for Shakespeare
Ikr!
Great job sir. Your videos (especially the time lapse London one) really effectively communicate the past as a foreign country.
Simon, you've got a rather well-suited voice to the old songs. I wouldn't mind hearing more!
That's incredible acting. This video almost had me fooled that there was potentially a pocket of folks who still spoke old english.
Like unwitting amish.
It took me a long time to figure out it was the same guy doing both the acting and asking the questions from behind the camera. What is also fascinating to me is his mannerisms throughout the video at 00:51 chewing the twig really sold it.
ARTOROBOTO {TV} what how do you know?
yea i thought the UK had their own version of the amish.
Not in England but actually theres a small island In america where they do
Wait, it’s not real??
2019: Englishmen reenact Anglo-Saxon speech.
1019: Anglo-Saxons reenact Proto-Brythonic speech.
19: Britons reenact Indo-European speech.
Major challenge for the subtitle writer.
3019: Muslims reenact English speech.
@@WyrmrestAccord 2050 Chinese reenact 2019 Mandarin
@@WyrmrestAccord bingo. I was gonna say it
Acid Trip Muslim is the name for followers of Islam. English is a language and the people. That’s like saying, “Christians reenact Arabic (or any other Semitic language)”. Does it make sense?
I LOVE this so much. Native English speaker from the USA here :D
brilliantly acted & the song was kinda chilling honestly. i love this video!!
Genuinely looks like you've pulled an unwitting time-traveller from a river and he confusedly agreed to an interview
This deserves more likes...
exactly, I was like "do they still live there in some secluded places like tribes in Polinesia (or how you write it)"
@@jiznimore Polynesia no longer has any secluded tribes lol. You're thinking of Indonesia, the Amazon, pygmy Africa and Papua
That's what I was thinking! lol
ikr
People in the future watching this will be highly confused
William Charnley , what do you mean , future? I can’t understand any of it in the present!
What, why, who ummmmm
@LOCAL COPE I wonder if England's English will be a mix of Arabic and English in the future.
@LOCAL COPE Damn right
@@kkhunt7 Let's hope not.
AS A GERMAN LEARNER THIS HITS DIFFERENTLY AFTER I FOUND OUT ABOUT OLD ENGLISH YEARS AGO
Simon is living history of long lost languages. Bless you.
Yep, you actually sound like a real person, not someone playing a character from Beowulf. Nice.
I appreciate that, that's pretty much what I was going for! With ancient languages, there are so few attempts on TH-cam to speak them as a native speaker might.
@@simonroper9218 mate you might've discovered an amazing new GENRE of history/linguistic videos. Seriously consider doing more like this or even more involved with dialogues with other history/linguistics youtubers that would be good at something like this. History with Hilbert would be the first that comes to mind for me I guess. This gave me about a million ideas because this period of English history is so poorly remembered
@@simonroper9218 They actually said nej? Like a Swedish person?
@@gonefishing6337 seems so hmm? I mean, the Dutch say "nee" and the English themselves used to say "nay".
@@simonroper9218 Yeah. I agree with Roper. This is a genre.
It sounds like all the Germanic languages combined
Haha, yes indeed. I'm Norwegian. It sounds like a mix off Icelandic, Norwegian, German and Dutch. Or something like that...
Well that’s what English is, without the Romantic (French and Latin) influence
Funny, I am Dutch I understand him..😅
It is
SIMP
My grandfather N R Ker was a paleographer at Oxford University… he studied and catalogued old Anglo Saxon texts. He died in 1982 but I like to think he would have really enjoyed your content.
As an english speaker who's been slowly learning Swedish, the only thing I understood the first time is that he doesn't have any kids, but when I put on the subtitles the second time the words seemed much more similar and I got the missing context I needed to connect what I heard to my modern vocab. Amazing video, thank you.
He sounds like a german guy who talks danish and englisch at the same time
As a danish english speaker who understands german i cant say i agree
@@Sebbir I'm curious what this sounds like to you. From what I can tell, his pronunciation is fairly good, and I'm curious as to what you're hearing.
I speak English, Spanish and some Irish. To me, this just sounds archaic, like listening to someone from 1850 who spoke entirely in a regional vernacular.
Borden Fleetwood im not sure really. Maybe a bit faroese with parts that sound more czech. But im sure people who actually speak those languages would disagree
More like Icelandic.
Im German and I understood some of it, but by far not everything. Some words appear to be The Same or almost The Same but there were some sentences I didnt catch a Word from
When he said “jdrjjrndjdbdndndnei” I felt that
😂
Ok that was too funny
Very funny
"Spoo reh, spoo reh." Is real motivating.
As someone who is absolutely fascinated about the English language and it’s many accents and dialects, this is absolutely brilliant.
Where are you from ?
@@tonytucker7264 I’m from Sheffield
@@modmutha8608 are you anglo saxon
@@tonytucker7264 I’ve no idea. But I know a few swear words
@@modmutha8608 so do I lol
You are just incredible. I mean I can’t believe how amazing you are.
I teach English in Japan. Today my English club kids were suddenly very interested in old English so I played this for them. They really enjoyed it, thanks!
Wholesome
Which program did you go through, Alex? Also, this made me smile. Thank you!
@@meganscureman578 I'm on JET living in Kyoto right now! It's a really long process from beginning the application to arriving, with a lot of random hoops to jump through and drawn out uncertainty... but ultimately absolutely worth it based on my own experience!
I feel like learning the old version of your native language is like when you "prestige" in some of C.O.D. games.
You've mastered Japanese, now try *old* Japanese! *OG Godzilla sound* Native English speaker? Try *OLD English*!! *explosion sound*
It is not real. He mentioned it in the description.
Me, a german who learned english and also speak icelandic, almost understand everything he is saying. Interesting.
Not surprised. That's awesome man.
All 3 of those languages are germanic
Me, a English/Irish/Scottish tatie, welcomes your pure self
Well the Anglo Saxon era in England was a time when Germanic languages ruled ruled of the regions till Norman
Was gehhtttt
These brilliant videos, impressive, unique and you are brilliant actor aswell. Thankyou
Great dedication, effort, and quality.
The song was really nice but you promised him you wouldn't tell.
Just what I thought! Now everyone knows!
Jeliza Rose check the vid description
im trying to know the songs name, someone knows?
@@mostsacredangel Check the Wikipedia article on Yggdrasil, probably the name of the ash tree. The song sounds like one of the verses from the poetic 'edda':
I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run.
I bet that earlier or later verses in the same poem mention the bird. Odin is talking about having sacrificed himself 'to himself' on the ash tree. Maybe the song exists someplace just as Simon presents it, but I don't know where.
@@EmdrGreg this one? th-cam.com/video/2BPILaMT50k/w-d-xo.html
“We won’t tell anybody” *literally puts it on the internet lol*
I mean, it’s not like he’s ever gonna find out lol
@@Freakincident lmao
Freakincident Considering the description I think he knows XD
Hahahahahjaahja i thought the same
He’s acting. It’s not real
This is exceptional work. Love it.
This sounds alarmingly like a combination of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian with a different vocabulary.
That’s because Saxons were Germanic people , same group as Scandinavians
@@lennyboah7183 I do know that, it's just amazing how similar it sounds since modern English is nowhere near those languages pronunciation wise or with grammar and vocabulary.
Even so, you can definitely hear some of what would become modern English. If you listen carefully you can hear some familiar words and somewhat figure out what he's saying.
As a German native speaker I find this fascinating. Here we have it: The connection between German and English. That's why our languages are siblings.
Anglo saxons came from the same place as Danes and Germans. We were just a bunch of germanic tribes actually, that migrated over the england.
I suppose the Angles and Saxons came from Germany. Could you understand much of what he said?
@@Wrz2e Back then there was no Germany, just germanic tribes, as someone said above. The old English language and the old German language developed from that base on different paths. Then the English language got influenced by the Norman conquerors, yet English and German are pretty similar languages today. The old English/Anglo-Saxon that is spoken here however is even closer to German. So yes, many sentences are quite understandable. Sometimes the vocabulary sounds strange but I guess that would be the same with old German words.
@@Mansardian Very true, I hope you'll excuse me using 'Germany' as a convenient shorthand for the lands where the Angles and the Saxons originated, which probably included some of modern day Netherlands and Denmark. I find it somewhat regrettable that the Normans adulterated the English language with French and Latin to the extent that we are now barely able to understand our Dutch and German brethren. I always find it very interesting to see cognates and identical words between our languages. Haus, Bier, Butter, Hand, Arm etc...
I wonder what the original Brits sounded like, before they had the saxons come defend them from the Norsemen.
Shit, this is 10x more natural sounding that all others on youtube
I really appreciate that :) That was the aim. Unfortunately, I think I didn't give myself enough time to rehearse, so I make a few mistakes!
Every generation of 40+ people trashes the teenagers.
@@theabsurdveganakadonderric1101 Will be interesting to see how the teenagers of the 2050s will be talking
@@simonroper9218 I reckon they'll communicate mostly by cognitively-linked animated emojis transmitted via enhanced contact lenses. Artificial intelligence will probably play a significant role in streamlining communication. Most people will be very reliant on AI to get through their daily affairs. It don't think it will be as nightmarish as Black Mirror, but it will still have a lot of negative aspects like difficulty communicating without AI assistance. The majority of children may well fall on the autism spectrum as we currently define it.
@MrA 2309 OK boomer
Wow! - this is incredibly well done! Bravo.
That song is a banger Baldrick
Definitely going on my playlist
"Can you sing it? We won't tell anybody."
2.7 million people: 👂
👁👂✋
What is the song?
lol
You gay
The acting was so good that he really looked lost. Imagine waking up to a different world.
Damn!
Why do you have over 900 likes and no comment until now?
Imagine waking up in a cart and hearing “hey you you’re finally awake”
The Infamous Big Slurp I-
The acting in this one seem so refined, so good somehow
1:21
Old English: Da can ich nocht.
Modern English: That I can not.
Modern German: Das kanne ich nicht.
Am I hallucinating? :Þ
Nah. Old english still had its german roots
It's "kann" not "kanne" if you wanna be precise.
Dat kann ick nich = low German
That I can not = English
Das kann ich nicht = German
It is not very different
Germanic languages, both german & english.
Black Country : ar cor
Swedish here, a Scandinavian could probably understand 60% of that.
Yea Im swedish and I was pick up on alot of his stuff
Weird ass accent tho, probably easier for other Scandinavians
Im from norway so its pretty hard to understand, but he sound like hes danish
It would be very interesting to record a few sentences in Old English and see how well a people from different countries understood.
nope det låter som norska, tyska och engelska blandat. fattar noll
Looks like the Norman’s didn’t reach him yet.
😆😆😆 Don’t be so HASTIngs! They’ll get there. Lol
old english is actually more germanic. Anglo-Saxons originally from Denmark. Angles, Saxes and Jutes.
*harrying of the north intensifies*
*This enraged his father who punished him severely*
Nope
This man should be hired as an actor for this type of roles in movies, is really believable.
Middle English is pretty understandable as a native speaker. You can understand it if you kinda squint your ears and just let it run together. And reading it is even easier. Old English is a whole different beast. Personally, I find the old languages much more musical and blended.
"Hinga dinga dergen!"
- Spongebob Squarepants
Happy lief Erickson day!
Found my friends
Gone to get more giant paper.
Georgen dingur herge
FINLAND!!!!!
- Patrick Star
"No, you are pronouncing your own name incorrectly."
Earlier he literally says his name differently in danish, showing his preference to adopt the cultural equivalent rather than remaining glued to his specific version of his reasonably common name. Literally changes nothing but it made sense in that context
Rex the Royalist read the description
Raj SB i did, i was talking about the character of bældric
After being recommended this video for 5 years I've finally caved in.
As a German who understands a lot of English it's easy to understand because is 50% English and 50% German
10 centuries later: “We visit a direct descendant of Baldric. An Anglo American.”
Hank Hill: “I sell propane and propane accessories.”
Dang ol, Boomhower
@@robroux6074 idk man, I know plenty of Americans who are happy to sit on the couch bitching all day long
@@CedarPinesFieldGrove you're confusing Americans w/ Texans & Scotchirish. That's like confusing Brits w/ Welsh & the Scotts.
Rob Roux Americans still to this day have a frontier mindset and live in a frontier society.
@@jackduncan4228 The frontier Society comes from the Iriqouis & Algonquin doesn't it?
The Vikings didn't expand and they loved to scout and pillege but the americans were different. They really did integrate into the land and adopted a lot of Native American customs...some say that SOME of our Democratic ideals come from the Natives.
British and Americans are really different and even the Canadians are very different from Americans. Canadians are way more pompous and carry traits of the bourgeois British. The American do have a strong frontier mindset that is very similar to Native Americans.
There a lot of aspects of German (Volga) that also influenced the Americans too.
He sounds like a Norwegian who spent the past 25 years alone in the forest.
So a 90's Black Metal vocalist then?
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Isn't that how Faroese was created?
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Ironic because i was sure Modern English has way more Latin/Romance incorporation into the language. But apparently, Old English had more Latin influence in it yet, it sounds so much more Germanic (and closer to the other modern Germanic languages) than Modern English.
By the way. Bloody awesome video mate!!
I am studying several languages on Duolingo, and would be thrilled if Old English were among the courses offered.
I would unironically watch this if this was a mini-series
Same, so simple yet so fascinating.
Baldrich, The Old Young Man
I didn't know how much I wanted this until I read your comment
Yeah him trying to learn new english lol