This is simply wonderful. Thank you.

Brilliant video!

My favourite English place name is Giggleswick. Which means goose farm in modern English.

What language was more complex, grammaticly, old english or latin?

Excellent class! At first I was afraid I wouldn't be able to benefit from the charts due to the tiny letters - they're unfeasible to my poor eyesight - but when you started showing each item with bigger letters I was relieved:-) Thank you so much,I've subscribed to the channel giving the due thumbs up and sharing this awesome video!

I have shied away from reading the Lord of the Riings out of fear that is not naturally fantastic and archaic enough. But your lecture has made me want to reinvestigate Lord of the Rings to see if it is written in the heroic style of the Exodus translation you discussed.

It bothers me when comparison is made between Old and Middle English when Canterbury Tales is used as the example for Middle English. It *is* Middle English, but it's biased for comparison in 2 ways. 1, it's very LATE Middle English, so it's only about 100 years away from being Early Modern English, and 2, it is in the dialect of Middle English from which Modern English immediately descends. This makes it seem much more like Modern English than it should, and unfairly distances Old English as some alien tongue from another planet. How about using Dan Michel of Northgate's 'Ayenbite of Inwyt' as the example for Middle English instead, which is closer to the midpoint between the two periods (1390), and in a different dialect (Kentish), and you'll arrive at a very different conclusion. You'll see more of a continuity in the language, and less of an abrupt change, and fewer French loanwords. You're cherry-picking certain texts and words that only perpetuate the old-established narrative of the early English upper classes and how they wanted to be perceived by people on the continent.

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Enjoyable informative video! 😊

Excellent! 😂

Great lesson! 😊

Kudos to Jacob Grimm! 😂

Enjoyable lesson! Very well explained and illustrated! 😊

Fascinating. Kind of ties together the bits of the history of English which I already had an idea of. PS have you done a video of why Dutch people often speak uncannily good English? I'm told there's a connection through Friesian but I don't know how reliable that is.

Examples of mid-transition (i.e. halfway between Old and Middle) English: do any exist? I've tried using Internet search engines to no avail.

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Still waiting on more videos.

Thank you, I'm pleased you were contacted, you make things easy to understand, and your enthusiasm for the subject, makes things come alive.

Fascinating. Musical notation': has anyone played it?

What about Middle East learning and intellectual import from the Byzantines ?

I just want to say that it's quite something to find barely anything on this channel on celtic Britain and its connections to celtic Europe, and so much about much more tenuous middle-eastern links. Nothing wrong about also going through little explored venues of History, but this is pure xenocentrism.

Loved it, thank you! It is interesting how these multilingual aspects reverberate in other parts of the Insular world after the 10th century. The Annals of Tigernach, from the 12th, had multilingual aspects in their origins as well, but the Latin was mixed with Middle Irish instead of Old English.

This is why pride is such a horrid thing. Thinking you're the best without proving it anymore will turn a region from good to horrid. The scientific papers from the middle east are basically zero now.

Okay, the synchronized gesturing is too cute, I have to watch this video now

Thank you so much for these videos, so interesting, and informative

Oh good grief. This is money well spent, the J.E.D.I council will be cock-a-hoop.

haha nobody likes mondays

What a fascinating series!

Þás folc sindon sóþlíce geþafian þæt þæs éast and Englaland habbaþ bendas on ærlicum wísdóme. Ic wundra tó hwilcere ænde hí wyrcaþ tó?

Wonderful! Thank you.

Hurray! A new video 🎉🎉

6:30 Rather than "gibberish-speaking", elreordig more literally meant something like "foreign-voice-y".

Thank you so much for a wonderfully presented and interesting video on early medieval encounters. I would like to know how Willibald managed to communicate with the people he encountered on his travels in the Middle Eastern lands. What language would he have used with the people in Homs? How would he and the Ethiopian have communicated? Were there translators for travellers at that time? Was there a lingua franca at that time for the Med area? When Willibald told the tale of his travels to Hygeburg would he have used Latin to communicate with her? What language did Hygeburg write in when recording Willibalds travels? Do you have a reading list / book recommendation (for general readers) for this interesting topic? Thank you once again.

Brilliant video! Keep up the great work!

Emir al mu’mineen is the common used title of the caliph

All weather is a condition. "Weather conditions" is redundant without any of the benefits that redundancy can sometimes bring.

All land is equally holy.

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Are you suggesting DIRECT trade between Anglo-Saxons and the Middle East? Otherwise, it reasonable to assume things get traded multiple times before finally ending up in England...How do you know these coins were "MADE" and not simply REUSED/REPURPOSED. (?)

Educational and funny!!

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The jokes? Incredible. The information? Educational. Hotel? Trivago

The language of England and Shakespeare

Lovely to see Wallace had a son. Wonder how Gromit's getting on.

Your accent is a little bit strange Are you Scottish??

Yeah, when are we giving back those borrowed words?

Hope this wil help with my credit test! There it is explained much easier than at our clacces. Thank you

This is a great summary!!! Thanks a lot!