Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon tongue) Bardcore/Medieval style

[@duck-headedllama9991]

In year 3066, people won't have to remake music to imagine how it would have sounded like. They'd have a millennium of songs stored on the Internet. And the worst part is that in year 5066 this comment will be seen as old as we see the old Egyptian culture. The concept of time is certainly shocking and it gives me goosebumps.

[@timothycook4782]

I hope the youtube archive survives a long time. Eventually, in a few thousand years, people will maybe even find these comments again.

[@John-tc9gp]

No reason to assume 'the internet' will do a good job of preserving anything in the long run

[@GentlemanBystander]

>thinking anything digital will survive the next bolide event or the Yellowstone Super-Caldera cooking-off.

[@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking]

The internet will be both a blessing and a nightmare for historians. I can't think how they'll be able to sort through all that information

[@John-tc9gp]

@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking To illustrate just how poor the internet is as a permanent archive, try to find more than a handful of websites you can still browse in their 1998 form. Good luck

[@apache1434]

When the Anglosaxon kid reaches for his scabbard during "Norman French" class.

[@AgitatedTaco]

This guy should keep making videos like this!

[@markoVTX]

Superb 👍

[@NyalBurns]

You mean ‘the English kid’

[@robertswitzer990]

Nyal No, he means the britons.

[@NyalBurns]

Robert Switzer: Not everyone from Britain is Anglo-Saxon. That is why I said English.

[@bobodenkirk9086]

“We live in a monarchy.” - The Jester

[@spikethedragon341]

A *Norman* foreign monarchy! Saxons will rise in Rebellion once more!!!

[@eriXD_1510]

I got that reference

[@RNB_lovr]

I'm dead😂

[@bobodenkirk9086]

“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “It’s the town guard. Your heir, he contracted the Black Death. He’s dead.”

[@cheatcharoninc172]

Bruh

[@yeetusthemfetus1436]

"what type of music do you like?" "60's music" "1960's?" "1060"

[@acemk9521]

Haha

[@jimmyagnew2184]

Yeah which 60,s

[@andrismednis6895]

norman invasion of england time!

[@jacksonguillory8114]

1260s-1360s

[@LugaresYJuegosTM]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaWWY5SCeLOAo7M

[@garchamp9844]

This song came up on my playlist while I was driving my elderly mother to an appointment. She thought that it was Jutlandic with a southern accent 😂

[@232mumboy]

Ælfred: hand me the aux cord Me: you better not play trash Ælfred:

[@newguy90]

Ælfred: Gifu mec þine auxcordne. Mec: Ne þu whilst ne plegian scitte. Ælfred:

[@theflerffyburr7919]

Æ is pronounced like "eye" so thats Eyelfred

[@Kromiball]

@@theflerffyburr7919 No, It isn't /ai/ It's pronounced like the a in “cat”; /kæt/

[@TehAlmightyTaco]

@@newguy90 how do you access those extra characters? like the "th" one?

[@user-hk8yp7cw1v]

@@TehAlmightyTaco Heisannan, lítinn nýjankømr; Hefir þú herjaðir með þeir stórir drengirnir fyrr?

[@ira1420]

All the French kids gangsta until the silent English kid shows up with a long boga

[@andersyu4464]

*langa boga

[@gremlinlad3671]

can’t tell if you’re talking about european history or the classic french-english rivalry in french/english immersion schools

[@94josema]

What is a long boga?

[@justinfleming675]

@@94josema long bow. In the video it shows boga (bo-hah) means bow

[@akhsinilhami2418]

Ooga boga

[@Ludwig-van-Beethoven1824]

Only the 1000’s kids will remember

[@thejudomasta7300]

Ludwig van Beethoven *duel of the fates starts to play*

[@clearskysqd.2145]

1060's

[@ye670]

Yooo i rlly fuck with ur music why no more concerts?

[@flupsdarups3897]

hi ludwig! im a big fan !

[@arelcrest]

Omg!! Yes. Good, we‘re vampires and other demons now. Ah!

[@richytheking1315]

How does the recording still sound so good after 1000 years? Truly amazing.

[@stephenroutley1376]

This sounds like the remastered version from the 1116 50th anniversary release.

[@togarnis8096]

@@stephenroutley1376 You're both wrong. The reason it sounds so good is clearly because its been remastered by Renaissance Italians. This tune was probably utter trash before the 15th Century.

[@flyingsalmons934]

@@togarnis8096 this is actually from my inns local bard in lublin your all wrong. he said god told him it and that means its objectively correct

[@johndoherty487]

957 year's!

[@Panhandlecheese]

@@togarnis8096 You're Both and both wrong, it's the French revolution Remaster by the Jacobins.

[@creepz6872]

Some of you knights are alright. Don't come to Agincourt tomorrow

[@HelixFlame33]

@Tony Shephard There was one school shooting in the USA (forgot which one), where the killer announced his deed a day before on 4chan, saying "Some of you guys are alright. Don't go to school tomorrow" or something along those lines.

[@isaacbingham7241]

@Tony Shephard The battle of Agincourt was an English victory over France during the Hundred Years War, it postdates the song's supposed settong by about 400 years.

[@ziekziek5601]

@@HelixFlame33 wasn't that the virginia tech guy

[@seanlux2214]

@@HelixFlame33 It was the Umpqua Community College shooting, in Oregon.

[@electrom.1703]

Sean Lux wrong

[@franciscodetonne4797]

The dedication is as surreal as casually hearing 11th English in the 21st century. Amazing.

[@gryphon0468]

It's actually much older, more like 6th century.

[@georgiod.3555]

@@gryphon0468 Yeah Obviously...the roman-latin vibes are distinguished in the language

[@Fakshat1212]

@@gryphon0468 nah old English didn't change into middle English until the mid 12th century.

[@Fakshat1212]

@@gryphon0468 so the guys correct

[@flamingpi2245]

Georgio D. Actually the interaction with Latin derived Romance languages was what separated this language from middle and new English, this language definitely has a more Germanic sound

[@maxkaufmann833]

King Godwin upon defeating the Vikings and turning south to face the Normans, 1066.

[@Sammy_Chouchou]

Tfw your lines break ranks to chase your routing enemy, sealing your fate

[@johannesklohse8115]

Didn't the word "Normans" came from the germanic word for "northmen", which is another name for Vikings? Aren't Normans just a mixture of Vikings and what later became French people? Would be kind of ironic consider their different reputations.

[@billyswift1745]

@@Sammy_Chouchou Nice taste in profile picture

[@thegrandcanyon9861]

Johannes Klohse Yes and no. France gave the Vikings Normandy so they'd stop raiding them, but a lot of the culture remained french, most notably the language. (Modern English is a mix of Norman french and Anglo-saxon.) There were slight variations in a lot of things, but it's mostly french with Norse aspects, like a culture creole.

[@johannesklohse8115]

@@thegrandcanyon9861 Ah, good to know. Thanks for the update!

[@aspenhancock1163]

I appreciate that “all the other” has basically not changed in pronunciation at all 😂

[@alarmmclock4460]

I’d imagine that if this song was somehow played to people from 1,000 years ago, they’d think it was about a peasant uprising and the slaughtering of the royal youth.

[@madamewoselle]

Still can be!!

[@djwizzle42]

Maybe it is about that. Lol

[@101jir]

I imagine a bunch of commoners singing this around a tavern and their lord* steps in. *edited from (if anyone is curious): overseer (idk what they would have been called) stumbles in.

[@CarlosRios1]

@@101jir their lord

[@101jir]

@@CarlosRios1 thx

[@pandito46]

Cornelius_link: *makes medieval Pumped Up kicks* the_miracle_aligner: I recon I can sing those historicaly accurate lyrics that are in the comments of that video Hildegard Von Bingen: Grabeth mine beer *sings with more accurate lyrics* the_miracle_aligner: *clears throat in Anglo Saxon* Heald mîn ealu

[@martyjean]

Watching this meme evolve is amazing. Your comment is the cherry on top of this sundae.

[@SimplyDuker]

@@martyjean The meme evolved by using the TARDIS.

[@kiryuchan137]

I unliked this comment just to like it again. Liking this comment once doesn't feel enough.

[@kurtisburtis]

And for the next pass, we need make the kennings needed to rewrite this in alliterative verse ...

[@dustonpage1280]

Things are heating up in the Bardcore fandom

[@Sa-fv5oo]

i never thought id have to translate english into english.

[@wet_camo_crocs_0041]

😂

[@patrickturner6878]

@Liam Nathan Abla That sure sounds like a "Germanism" to me. The "Vundergeeft" or "Wonder-Gift" lol

[@poki580]

@@patrickturner6878 germanism in english? thats like caling something a slavism in polish

[@ryan7864]

@@poki580 Modern English vocabulary is more Latin than German anymore. Nearly 60%

[@mr.flibblessumeriantransla5417]

@Ryan In totality of words? Yes. But in reality the majority of words used by the average person on a daily basis, especially in casual conversation, are mostly Germanic roots. While Norman-French and Latin have greatly influenced English, most of the words which buff up those numbers are neologisms and technical terms. If you breakdown the etymology of casual speech you hear throughout the day, you’ll find that it’s mostly of Germanic English origin.

[@shmood3000]

“Baldric, thou art a good man: come not hither to-morrow.” “Bringst you ill tidings?” (He does not speak.)

[@StephJ0seph]

😂

[@Official.Prez.Graves]

“He does not speak” I got covered in goosebumps

[@Thestuffdoer]

The way Baldric used "You" as if Hroþa was socially above him-

[@k3ps00n7]

Everyone is talking about the language but no one mentions that it's a pretty damn good song in this language

[@BxLawy]

Agreed

[@brianspeck3568]

Way better than the original

[@cas1652]

@@brianspeck3568 ikr, can't get it out of my head

[@stevefranks6541]

Greetings K3P00N, Since downloading I have become totally obsessed with this song. And the Old English is beautiful if not amazing. I found a review of the original song and its lyrics -- Foster the People's for the meaning. Can't stop playing Pumped Up Kicks - 1066AD. Help! :-)

[@boyfriendwannabe1825]

@@brianspeck3568 What do you mean "than the original" ? Is this not the orignal?

[@joefalko3756]

God it’s incredible when you can make out what they’re saying. “All the other child” seems to have stayed the same, this is crazy

[@germanicgems]

Most of it is understandable. For example “He hæfþ smocapipen fulne” = “He haveth smokepipe full” (þ is equal to th)

[@hippyjoe]

@colten bennion Eyup. English used to have Ash, thorn, and eth, Ææ, Þþ, and Ðð.

[@ShenDoodles]

This language is part of English's evolution.

[@Abdega]

@@ShenDoodles Yes, but remember there was a huge change after the Norman Conquests

[@evanreign9344]

The most common words tend to be the slowest to change. Also why they're always full of irregular forms, they'll frequently keep the old regular form when a new regular form develops, which turns the old regular form irregular.

[@jodofe4879]

Spoiler: King Harold could not outrun William's arrow

[@robertmacdonald6527]

Too soon

[@j.clementec.m.1558]

@@robertmacdonald6527 try in another millennia?

[@yaz9292]

Robert MacDonald its been 900 years

[@robertmacdonald6527]

@@j.clementec.m.1558 Maybe when we Saxons get our reparations from our Norman oppressors

[@robno101]

"I used to be a king like you. Then I took an arrow to the eye"

[@ryhol5417]

Watching this live was so sick! The bonfires were numerous. Mead was priced scandalously high

[@TheSoup87]

Fr that mead was good tho

[@100megatonYT]

@@TheSoup87 fr totally worth the shillings

[@stephenroutley1376]

I contracted buboes in ye moshe pitt, but by gads it was weruth ite.

[@kaydwessie296]

I quite enjoyed watching the local harlots act debaucherous after eating those mushrooms

[@prezentoappr1171]

lmao@@100megatonYT

[@StuffyMc]

Not only did you sing it in Old English but you altered the lyrics to be more period appropriate and still made it all fit. Outstanding.

[@brantdanger]

Yep, that was the cool part.

[@gryffin638]

Also I think there just was not a word for “gun” yet so he had to.

[@AutoReport1]

Except for the smoking pipe. Tobacco and pipes came from the Americas in the 15 th and 16 th centuries.

[@AutoReport1]

@@commentor369chelsea4 not with a pipe. Cannabis seems to have been steamed, opium ingested. It was obvious to everyone that smoke is always bad for you.

[@LittleV179]

@@AutoReport1 we had other plants such as mugwort aka sailors tobacco before then and other plants mostly smoked in ritual fashion. Clay pipes have been found from this period.

[@garolonlied]

2010: XXIst Century English 2020a: Elizabethan English 2020b: Old English 2021: Proto-Germanic 2022: Indo-European

[@hereisyoursign6750]

Proto-Proto-Indo-European

[@Dawildogra]

Oh man you beat me to it haha

[@alexanderticonuwu7591]

3020: Sanskrit

[@mrgomelonsolaris]

waiting for the PIE version.

[@guisseppistrombopolis9082]

*caucasian evolution intensifies*

[@zivcarmi3845]

There are Old English epics like Beowulf and then there are the REAL Old English epics. This lands firmly in the latter category.

[@dogwithheadphones]

Anglo-Saxon soldier here, I remember just before the Battle of Hastings, we started singing this to hype ourselves up for the impending battle tru story

[@TheSoup87]

I was there, my Anglo Saxon friend

[@kindadumb916]

I can confirm, i was the norman

[@amerAsterix]

Yes...I imagine you singing and drinking and being happy

[@Asertix357]

It's a catchy song, for sure. But you guys needed a better baritone section.

[@conorstapleton3183]

How did the battle go? Did you win?

[@olbradley]

This should have been played at the Battle of Hastings.

[@cathyskywalker77]

Or the Battle of the Bastards☺

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Implying it wasn't...

[@jmorot]

Unfortunately, Harold Godwin wasn’t able to outrun the bows :(

[@Bigglesworthicus]

Yeah, by the Normans

[@ArkadiBolschek]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 If they had played this, there's no way the Saxons would have lost.

[@cyooldog3920]

Why is old english so satisfying to listen to? Every word flows smoothly

[@JorgeSchz2004]

Especially the part when it says _Sćulo'n betera rinnen_ 😍😍 0:45

[@kokofan50]

Synthetic languages, that means languages with case endings, tend to have good flow.

[@cyooldog3920]

@@kokofan50 what are some modern languages that are like that?

[@kokofan50]

@@cyooldog3920 German still is, but it’s been simplified. French, Russian, Greek, Persian, Gaelic still are.

[@kokofan50]

@@cyooldog3920 German still is, but it’s been simplified. French, Russian, Greek, Persian, Gaelic still are.

[@lial2143]

When Grendel walks into the king's hall

[@omegabet3912]

Is this a goddamn Beowulf reference?

[@hijisfriend9030]

B O O M

[@morganrobinson8042]

@@omegabet3912 Well, the song is in the right language for it.

[@santiagocortez9554]

Well shit why'd everyone bully him anyway 🤣🤣🤣

[@hijisfriend9030]

@@omegabet3912 Yes Yes Yes Y E S

[@TheeEnglishKnight]

I appreciate how it’s ACTUALLY in old english. So many people think Shakespearean English is ‘old English’ and it triggers me every time

[@ZootC]

Elizabethan English is the start of modern English which is what we speak today. Prior to that it was heavily Scandinavian and German influenced. There are few people alive today that could have held a conversation with a common man back in 1200 AD or so. Even if you spoke Latin or French you would still have a hard time and could only converse with the clergy or the aristocracy. Language is forever changing.

[@Emilyb21-dm3bf]

He wasn't posh English either he sounded Cornish

[@cathdodd5072]

​@ZootC ummm, Chaucer is known as the so-called "father of the English language". I know it is a massive stretch, but most of us could read a lot of The Canterbury Tales (with spelling being what it is these days, probably a lot more 😂). Sorry, I have to stand up for my man Geoff.

[@Jireninyourrecommendations]

When the song's so good that you make a second version of it

[@the_miracle_aligner]

Ahhh Jiren, you spoil me XD tyyyy

[@theanimalcrossingmillipede2592]

Lmao 😂

[@cincylaw14]

....and the SAME PEOPLE SHOW UP AGAIN! lol

[@bently21]

@@the_miracle_aligner DO MORE!!!!!!

[@venomgrievousviii2323]

Theatre kids: Shakespearean English is the best English. Me, an intellectual: No, you’ve got it wrong it’s Anglo-Saxon.

[@amadeobordiga8464]

Middle English is nice i think

[@harryflashman3451]

@@amadeobordiga8464 smells too much like garlic to me

[@Thinktank-rn6dm]

@@harryflashman3451 fuckin frogs saying what letters we are and aren't allowed to use. bring back þe þorn

[@onehellofaninvader]

@@amadeobordiga8464 Shakespeare didn't speak Middle English, it was early Modern Eng :)

[@onehellofaninvader]

But Middle English is awesome.

[@BenjaminISmith]

English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Norwegian speakers: "hey, I recognize that language!"

[@KurtusCobainus]

Perhaps exclude English speakers...

[@stevendorset6319]

hey ... it is just Anglo Saxon.

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

@@KurtusCobainusActually, a quite a lot of words and sentences are recognisable to me.

[@KurtusCobainus]

@@MoolsDogTwoOfficial I could understand quite a bit too, and it was like I got hit by some intelligiblity, but then it decided to switch back to fake sea German

[@scottwallace5239]

Tbf i only think the English, german,dutch and norweigan kids would understand anything, this language was before the french got involved with

[@privateryan5671]

Love em or hate em, he's spitting facts.

[@NHDOreBros]

It's interesting to see words that almost sound the same but are spelt entirely different, like arrow=earhum.

[@AntonNidhoggr]

Kinda, but sometimes such similarity may be deceiving. In Norse for example 'örum' is a pl. dative case of 'ör' = arrow. I wonder if it's the same for Old English because these words look suspiciously similar :-D

[@遖有難み]

@@AntonNidhoggr u didnt surfing unintentionally into english historia or anyway its big ibfluence as langfocus paul said I surf wiktio found out without further ado- there the a in ado is old norse infinitives

[@wenqiweiabcd]

@@AntonNidhoggr The spelling with the front vowel is modern Icelandic, not Old Norse. It comes from the same Germanic root as arrow, but it's not a loanword from English.

[@LugaresYJuegosTM]

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[@kaaz1010]

@@AntonNidhoggr in modern Norwegian, the word for arrow is interestingly completely disconnected from this.

[@austinjackson7103]

Medieval remixes are by far the best thing to come out of 2020

[@valeriamarelli]

Not that 2020 gave us many good things among which to choose

[@TheCrusaderBin]

At least we have that heh. Ironically, mortality rate is down by 20%, at least in my country, people are afraid of their own shadow lolz

[@Rygir]

@@TheCrusaderBin Really? First time I've heard that regular mortality rate was lowered like that

[@regiodeurse6513]

​@@Rygir child mortality ("sudden infant death syndrome") evidently dropped aswell in the first month of c word. Because parents postponed their infant's scheduled vaccinations because they refused to come to the centers where they give those afraid of catching Da vairous. Authorities were like "but... here it's safe... come get.. ur... aaaaaaah... Okay we open up everything.. And also c word doesnt affect children".. So Children dont need the comming Cvaccine? "well..."

[@horrorTTX]

Yeah, 2020 is such a dumpster fire that we have to go back 1000 years for decent content

[@loopyloo7371]

It's mad how 'all the other kids' and other words (he, is, and...) sound practically the same, it really caught me off guard and it's the fact that these words i've been speaking my entire life were also spoke by some random villager however many hundreds of years ago, possibly someone who lived or farmed on the very land my house is built on. How they have survived so many centuries is truly mind-boggling and it's got to be the deepest sense of heritage I've ever felt

[@Kadukunahaluu]

English: He, is, and German: Er, ist, und Dutch: Hij, is, en Afrikaans: Hy, is, en Conclusion: "is" is eternal

[@urphakeandgey6308]

I sometimes think about this. I'm also mixed race, so to me it's even crazier to think that I'm somewhat detached from this heritage, yet I speak a language descended from it fluently. Some random villager in Old England who probably didn't even know of my other ethnicity's existence could potentially speak to me.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

I am a retired professor of medieval literature - Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. I loved reading Anglo-Saxon and seeing the students’ eyes light up at they hear for example “cwicra” and get that “quicker” and other words have come to them across 1500 years…this version of the song is awesome.

[@sophjonge7410]

Also "hises fæder ciste" sounds practically the same to how we say his father's chest. That caught me off guard.

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

If you and he both were VERY patient, you could very likely have a halting, slightly-confusing conversation with your Old English-speaking great(x) grandpa, as long as it was a simple one. Given a week together and you'd likely have the beginnings of a patois. So many similarities.

[@oddtail_tiger]

OK, so Medieval-style covers of popular songs are fun even when they are just instrumental. But my eye kinda starts twitching when people put lyrics to those, and those are just modern English with a few "thee" and "thou" here and there (and usually used incorrectly), add a few "-eth" are thrown in for good measure, and that's it. It's just a pet peeve of mine. Then there's the ones that actually try and make the stylization somewhat believable, with lyrics that are a passable approximation of Chaucer's English, or at least an early modern English vibe. Those are fun, because the lyricist puts in some damn effort. And then there's this. This is impressive. This is gold. It's in a league of its own =D

[@LMvdB02]

But smoking a pipe in medieval europe? That's not very accurate.

[@LoveCheeselover]

@@LMvdB02 True, but this is just a translation, I'm sure there are plenty of songs that are accurate from 450 to 1154 AD

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

@@LMvdB02 could have been hashish

[@user-hk8yp7cw1v]

@@LMvdB02 mostly hashish

[@DrDeathpwnsu]

Pipe or not you could send these guys back in a time machine and I'm pretty sure the people back then would jam out to this tune.

[@urthtvbyjess]

So I'm hiding from some guy in a monastery and he has a bow... He keeps singing this... What do I do?

[@imperialofficer6185]

Withdraw, alert the watch!

[@urthtvbyjess]

@@slavonic8970 the thing is, he's not a monk, he's a quiet boy

[@alexie832]

Hide and stay silent in the privy, young squire

[@elbentos7803]

Put on your hauberk and pierce the vilain with your lance.

[@countbathory4020]

The Dank Meme Mastah 911? Sirrah, ‘tis the United Kingdom, wherein we alert 999!

[@Zoe-sh2hm]

It’s interesting that the change in time period changes the meaning of the song. Medieval peasants wouldn’t have really mingled with wealthier people nearly as much as we take for granted, so this reads a lot more like the beginning of a peasant rebellion than a school shooting now.

[@sophiaschier-hanson4163]

I thought the same exact thing! It works even better because the English class system as we know it today largely evolved from ethnic tension between the indigenous Anglo-Saxon peasantry and their wealthy Norman occupiers in this very period. This kid isn't just trying to take out any old rich people, he's a freedom fighter making a futile heroic stand against the people who invaded his homeland. Which takes on an extra layer of sad, poignant irony considering the later history of the British Isles.

[@avgvstvs7]

@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 Britain belongs to Welsh bretons

[@avgvstvs7]

@Custard Drop its true tho

[@patrickturner6878]

@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 This makes me think of that horrid novel "The Wake" by that crazy progressive Irish author. All the critics called it a literary achievement how he managed to mix Auld Anglish vocabulary with modern grammar to make a readable pseudo-text. Sure it read like old english kinda. But the critics completely ignored the fact that the story was completely satirical of the English and made them all look like ignorant backwoods hill people who were brought enlightenment by William the Bastard's sword. lol

[@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking]

I like that. You've enhanced my experience

[@rocky-xh8jw]

legend has it the Saxons were singing this while the Normans were doing their feigned retreat

[@marcelogoncalvesdocouto5044]

The modern version talks about a school shooting, but the medieval version seems to be talking about a rebellion against the nobility.

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

Well, school shootings tend to be carried out by social outcasts and the 'cool' kids they kill would be the social nobility

[@timefortjer6705]

I was thinking with the first video "this isn't *really* how they spoke in the Middle Ages" I figured that sense no one would understand it, there would never be a version made in actual Old English, and I would have to live with the Shakespearean. I have never been happier to be proven wrong! The sheer linguistic craftsmanship that went into this video is astonishing. As someone with a deep appreciation for linguistics, I find this video absolutely inspiring. Thank you so much for making it!

[@TheRtRevKaiser]

I'd like to hear some of these songs in Middle English as well. The 1300s (around the time of Chaucer) still puts you in the (Late) Medieval period, but it's more intelligible for a Modern English speaker.

[@CircusFoxxo]

@@TheRtRevKaiser I spent approximately thirty hours of research translating a character's dialogue in a single paragraph into true Old English, and wow did I want to die

[@MikhalisBramouell]

@@CircusFoxxo Literal translation is a lot of work if you are not completely fluent in both languages/dialects...

[@markuskarl5776]

In Germany we have "medieval rock bands" for decades :-) like In Extremo, Schandmaul, Saltatio Mortis or Faun. But it is nice to see this bardcore trend here on youtube.

[@CentauroVII]

Shakespeare didn’t speak Anglo Saxon.

[@bigman7856]

We need to revive old English . Such a beautiful language.

[@MossyMozart]

@Jerome Wilshank - Bernadette Banner, who publishes videos on historical clothing, took Old English in college in England, I believe.

[@AdityaDeo-cg6eu]

Revive as in ?

[@bigman7856]

Aditya Dev bring it back lmao what you think I mean?

[@AdityaDeo-cg6eu]

@@bigman7856 and start using it all of a sudden ?

[@bigman7856]

Aditya Dev I’m not being serious, but it be interesting if that happened. I mean, some Chinese still speak mandarin which is pretty ancient.

[@Cephalopod51]

As someone who studied some Old English, read notable Old English poems in translation, and am the son of a English major who studied Beowulf in the original Old English, it excites me to see someone translating modern days songs like "Pumped Up Kicks" into Old English and to make it so catchy. For a very old language, Old English is very beautiful to hear spoken and sung out loud. I can see Old English translations of a whole lot of modern songs being played in a Mead Hall in some alternate reality world where English speakers have devolved into living and speaking like the Danes and Saxons from the Anglo-Saxon Period, drinking mead, singing joyfully, and hoping that the grim and greedy Grendel doesn't devour them.

[@DLeighWifey]

Hwæt!

[@explodingplant2]

Better put up some sound proofing to keep grendel away!

[@SgtZaqq]

As someone who studied the history of English, I gotta say the pronunciation is totally on point.

[@the_miracle_aligner]

TYYYY 😁❤

[@HasufelyArod]

Is the letter C pronounced as CH or K? It's like Latin : I prefer classical pronunciation over ecclesiastical

[@Zenn3k]

I find it interesting how much of it sounds similar enough to modern English to get some idea of what he is saying without the translation. Cild...still sounds like Child, for example.

[@Raziberry]

How are we sure of the pronunciation without audio recordings from back then?

[@SgtZaqq]

@@Raziberry linguists can reconstruct the original pronunciation by analyzing ancient documents, comparing modern English with other languages, etc. It's not 100% precise, but is a decent guess.

[@comradeviper4054]

The French at Agincourt: "let's crush theese English peasants!" The English:

[@Crusader1089]

"Écrasons ces paysans anglais"

[@jevongraham5223]

The English that was spoken by the English longbowmen and other soldiers at agincourt would have been a bit different to the English in the song, as the Norman invasion had happened before and English was simplified and given lots of French vocabulary

[@Odinsday]

i Preza Nah. At this point, there we’re definitely some speakers who spoke Old English dialects left, but most were probably really old (as old as you can get back then).

[@jevongraham5223]

@@Odinsday the fact that people didn't get as old back means that older dialects would have died even earlier. It was close to old English sure, but it was still early middle English, which is not what this song is in

[@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking]

Ooh nice

[@coolground]

This is actually my first time hearing Anglo-Saxon. I gotta admit, it made me wanna learn it

[@mattreynolds3178]

my first time hearing Anglo-Saxon was on the ABAlphaBeta video "Evolution of Music" and, yeah, same. I wanted to learn it. I purchased the book Beowulf to help. Good book!

[@hippyjoe]

Look up on youtube "Leornonde eald Ænglisc"

[@wilsonsticks]

Simon Roper has a lot of Old English videos for learning how it works and its history

[@Fortigurn]

@@wilsonsticks Simon Roper is ace. I love the way he speaks Old English so fluently. Like a native!

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

i got into bardcore then found this. Now im waiting for my copy of 'complete old english: a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding old english, with original texts' so excited

[@miles.stilicho]

I'm half german half italian and have lived in the UK. Hearing this language sung so well just put me in a state of awe. Amazing stuff.

[@memesnamaykonteksto4381]

So you have British accent??

[@miles.stilicho]

@@memesnamaykonteksto4381 I've picked it up fairly quickly to be honest, yeah

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

​@@miles.stilichoyeah then t'welcum t'to count'try

[@joeybanana3366]

​@@miles.stilicho british accent, italian gesturing, and i assume german driving? what have we created

[@benjamindover2601]

Old English is basically spicy German.

[@Eastcyning]

Anglo-Saxons were basically sea Germans, so it checks out

[@uitham]

It actually sounds a lot more like dutch. I can actually understand it somewhat

[@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444]

@@uitham I don't want to trigger but dutch is part of the low german language family so he is right, it's actually northsea german. I will never understand why those language families are called (... ) - german, since german(the german language is only a central-german language

[@willemvanstaden3292]

@@uitham jy bedoel sekerlik "Neder-Duits"? Want Afrikaans (wat ek hier tik) is baie soos Neder-Duits en is afkomstig daarvan. Dalk kom Hollands ook van Neder-Duits af?

[@user-hk8yp7cw1v]

@@Stahlross I speak Norwegian and Old Norse and I also understand like 40% of the whole sentence.

[@MrMattonico]

I will never get tired of saying how amazing the internet is

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

*When you do a crusade, only to realize that your brother took over your kingdom while you were gone:*

[@tofferooni4972]

*TIME FOR A SECOND CRUSADE*

[@sheevpalpatine1105]

1066 was about 30 years before the crusades but i see where you are going

[@johnohara4788]

*Angry Richard the Lionheart noises*

[@minerat27]

The English kings during the crusades would have spoken French

[@vit968]

*Of course your brother took over your kingdom because you left all your duties to go off Deus-Vulting 3,000 miles away while using your kingdom as a personal piggy bank to fund your Lawrence of Arabia Adventures, only to get jailed and forcing your mum to crowdfund your release.* *#KingJohnDidNothingWrong*

[@nickkuiper32]

The fact that the lyrics changed "bullets" to "arrows" make this song great.

[@touch_of_cobalt]

As a historian: Historian: I prefer the medieval version of "Pumped Up Kicks" *Plays in modern English* Historian: I said the *medieval* version. *Plays in Anglo-Saxon* Historian: Perfection.

[@seneca983]

A Middle English version could also count as medieval.

[@Reubentheimitator6572]

seneca983 Yep.

[@haszelly5612]

im historian too

[@tiberiustheweaponsmaster4621]

Bro same

[@ChronicNewb]

I love the Early Modern English version of this song as well but it's not "medieval"

[@samuelbousfield4342]

When some kid says English isn't a Germanic language.

[@tesstickle7267]

It's a language of all sorts lol lots of Latin in it

[@samuelbousfield4342]

@@tesstickle7267 pure vocabulary it's grammar it's sentence structure it's base is Germanic and fairly obviously at that.

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

@@tesstickle7267 i was under the impression that latin is a bastardisation of greek and romanian

[@bleddynwolf8463]

@@iordanneDiogeneslucas you have provoked a gang war.

[@fionn5325]

@How winnie the pooh became emperor of china username checks out (His name used to be “I am a dumbass” or something)

[@sisasickletter]

I love how much German I could find in these old lyrics and sounds. It becomes so clear, that English is an Germanic language

[@Dowlphin]

Germaniac here. We are Ger and we are many. You better bow.

[@gambigambigambi]

English was kidnapped from her Germanic sisters and forced to wear a Latinized dress.

[@Chitario]

Its a wild mix of german, english, dutch, Latin and nordic influences and as someone who speaks dutch, german and english fluently, the lyrics are very understandable. Thats interesting

[@mrcharles1602]

English doesn’t borrow words from other languages, it mugs them in dark alleys.

[@suclox12yearsago56]

Germs

[@Alimator_210]

My English teacher was showing us old English and accidentally played this

[@cavanleichtman6170]

Ne do cum to leorninghus tomorgen.

[@jaimefox7762]

Old English sounds like a mix of English, Latin, and German.

[@Cneq]

holds the best sounds of all three, incredible stuff

[@Cnut_the_grape]

It kinda is

[@troodon1096]

Descended from the same language group German did, so not surprising.

[@kenny5577]

No it’s not

[@huehuecoyotl2]

Closest modern language to Old English in words and structure would be Frisian or Dutch. Old English is English before the influence of Latin and Norman French.

[@novarunner34]

when he said "Sċulon betera rinnen, cwicra þonne mín boga." I really felt that.

[@scponyoutube313]

When you help the Anglo Saxon kid pick up his books in literacy class and he says “ðrôwian nâ spryttan ûtâðýdan leornungscôl neoðanweard mônandæg”

[@mimisezlol]

I can't believe that in Anglo Saxons called School "Learning School", essentially

[@captainbarbossa5325]

Ngl being able to get that sentence in our ancient tongue kinda got me diamonds

[@kets4443]

@@mimisezlol People must've actually learnt in school back then

[@water9892]

Translation please

[@captainbarbossa5325]

water “dank OC Anglo Saxon roblox maymays that’ll make your gran touch her yamyams “

[@BrieBoar]

Imagine going to a tavern and hearing this song play in the background as you find out that Harold II was shot in the eye in battle and William the Bastard is now William the Conqueror of England

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

When the French and Norman kids in Paris University mock you for being the only Anglo-Saxon there.

[@chilliam00]

Bro, the Chinese character on your pfp is my name wtf. 😂🤣🙌🏼

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

@@chilliam00 是你父母希望你的智商高吧？😂 我的 profile pic 是為了諷刺自己自以為是的態度啊 呵呵

[@ArvelCrynyd]

“If thou receivest this parchment, then thou art one of the few Anglo-Saxons who art dear to my heart, and I must warn thee not to come to Hastings on the ‘morrow. Regards from Duke William of Normandy.”

[@SarahET]

That's middle English smh /s

[@Correctrix]

@@SarahET It's early Modern English with grammar mistakes.

[@argyrendehringterimksaccu174]

Regard and perchance is Norman i thought the former is native... notwithstanding

[@theunknownspeedrunner276]

Old English != EME

[@winglessfairy564]

@@SarahET No

[@dan9864]

As a Dane, I find a lot of it strikingly similar to my mother tongue.

[@phoenix1026]

Makes sense, the Anglo-Saxons were germanic, and the danish are germanic.

[@mikeswem]

@@phoenix1026 More than that, even. The Angles and the Jutes, two of the Germanic tribes that eventually formed into the Anglo-Saxons in England, were from what is now Denmark, and Anglo-Saxon would have been partially intelligible to the Danes of the period. The repeated Norse invasions of England were basically cousin vs. cousin.

[@thomasdavid7364]

@@phoenix1026 The Anglo-Saxons are still Germanic

[@thomasdavid7364]

@@mikeswem They were from Jutland which is now part of Denmark, yes, but the Danes had yet to settle there, they were still up in Scania Genetically and linguistically the Anglo-Saxons were most similar to the Dutch, Frisians especially

[@dan9864]

“Eall the other cild mid findgum soccum shulon betera rinnen fram minnum earhum” In modified Danish: “Alle de andre “kid” med fine sko skulle bedre rende fra mine pile” (I wouldn’t say it like that in Danish, but it can be understood)

[@RTrades158]

It's a damn shame that modern english doesn't have this rythm. When he signs "Cwicra than min boga" In my head it just comes out as "Quicker than my bow" If you listen to it for a while your ear will adjust to it and you'll get it. It sounds so harmonious I wish we maintained this.

[@kollinwoolley]

I truly wished we re-establish this dialect it's perfect in its own way.

[@screwstatists7324]

One more reason to hate the French. Just kidding. We love the romance vocabulary, even if we can't use it

[@kollinwoolley]

Yea harmonic

[@krakentoast]

It sounds just like german

[@taggymcshaggy6383]

Its a language not a dialect. Scots has a lot more similarities to anglo-saxon/anglish Look into scots if you want a modern language similar to anglish ​@@kollinwoolley

[@alfieomega]

The thing Ethelred was unready for was this banger right here

[@SpaceJunkie12]

Underrated comment lmao

[@ChronicNewb]

Taking a history course on Medieval England was 100% worth it solely for understanding all the Ethelred the Unready jokes on the internet.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

@@ChronicNewb I only knew his name

[@Crosshill]

@@ChronicNewb i kinda only know about æthelstan and æthelflæd cause i refused to make a presentation on like, princess diana back in tenth grade, could you fill me in from there?

[@rubenvanrooyen8006]

I was unready for this comment lol

[@harrietlyall1991]

This works really well as an Anglo Saxon poem, it’s got the same kind of zany, dead-pan humour you find in Piers Plowman and all those A.S. riddles. Over the top bragging was perfectly acceptable in a poem. Even the stuff about the smoking pipe and the dinner laid on ice would have been seen as some sort of metaphorical allusion to his smoking rage and his dad being an ice-giant or something. The kids in fancy shoes could just mean spoilt, soft kids. I can really imagine a hall full of drunken churls all sitting round banging their ale-horns in time to the chorus 👏🏼✊🏼 The illustration is very well done, it looks like it’s from the Bayeux Tapestry.

[@tzCombot]

"The kids in fancy shoes could just mean spoilt, soft kids." Wait... So it's something else than that? I thought of this one since first hearing the song.

[@timtams_6]

@@tzCombot well it also means that but in the original it also takes a much more literal meaning

[@Kyro4Productions]

The illustration was probably done using htck.github.io/bayeux

[@101jir]

A bunch of commoners singing this in a tavern, then whatever the position equivalent to an overseer is walks in...

[@陈独秀-v3f]

I think it is characters from the Bayeux Tapestry.

[@hansstrudel9614]

Isn’t it kinda weird how we know Anglo Saxon despite it being a dead language that *wasnt* kept alive due to it being used as a liturgical language? It’s like how the Chinese almost completely eradicated Manchu as a language until they realized that all their historical records were written in Manchu so they hastily went and found the 20 known remaining speakers and managed to revive the language

[@hansstrudel9614]

WHY WAS THIS LIKED

[@earendilthemariner5546]

We need to do this with Gaelic and Manx Gaelic so they dont die out

[@danielmccollum5451]

@thunder key Irish has been a required subject in Irish schools for a while now. Pretty much since independence. Unfortunately it has never really stuck, which is a shame (though there are some young activists that are making a push to make Irish 'cool'. Translating popular music into Gaelic and so forth). Really, the best example of this is Wales, where the language has taken off again.

[@ori8107]

@@danielmccollum5451 so from now on wales is jdiajajskoxidjfjfkdoekwkaosmmsosi again?

[@ereynolds72]

The Banana Bender Wales is simply Cymru in Welsh, or Cymraeg I don’t know what you’re trying to say.

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

" _The invasion of William De Normandie and that of his Normans were perhaps one of the worst things that humanity has ever experienced, And the consequences of their actions have been most severe and dire for the human race as a whole_ " -translated from the last missive written by Cyning Hereweald Gudánwinnansune before the battle of Hastings.

[@MalleusIudaeorum]

I heard he had a stylish moustache

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

​​​​@@MalleusIudaeorum He did alongside beard (atleast depicted in the old Later paintings done during the 1500-1700's). I also remember reading something (A *very, very* long time ago. Mind you) that the beard/mustache styles of the very very late 1700's and throughout the 1800's were somewhat loosely based/inspired off of those many paintings of him. (If I recall correctly here or I could just be, blatantly be wrong about this)

[@Chelsea-wd4ec]

Where did you find this?

[@zackamor8043]

Genghis Khan, hold my beer

[@kindadumb916]

I will never forgive William for robbing old English from me.

[@Godofdeath805]

When the quite kid says don’t come to the monastery tomorrow

[@Pteromandias]

I'm pretty sure everyone's quiet in the monastery. Unless you're referring to the scratching of the quill pens on the parchment.

[@Shadyganleymawn]

When the Pagan kid starts casting runes

[@henloampepe]

Some of you Anglo's are cool, don't come to the monastery tomorrow...

[@peace9902]

This'll be my new morning alarm No one can stop me.

[@dsargus3]

Good Idea actually, thanks xD gonna do that now too

[@unknown-dq6df]

The quiet kid can

[@ushdhyxywb]

Don't. You'll grow to hate it

[@CairnOwl]

The purity of your vowels and transitions are fit to make operatically trained vocalists weep with jealousy.

[@the_miracle_aligner]

too kind sir too kind

[@iancraigbintliff9738]

This is so beautiful!!!!! Old English is the most beautiful language ever!!!

[@kreaux3479]

Me trying to sing the song: My furniture: **starts dancing**

[@deltasword1994]

When that really quiet page shows up to the sword training class with a crossbow:

[@defunctchannel2167]

I love all the comments discussing how this song would fit into Old English history, so I thought I'd chime in about the smoking pipe. Tobacco is native to the Americas, so the Anglo-Saxons wouldn't have been smoking that. But there was a certain other green substance that was smoked quite a bit in their day that only recently just started to get legalized, if you catch my drift 😉

[@CyberDwarf1949]

Certain fungi were probably quite popular...

[@sambird7946]

420 AD blaze it 😌

[@themastermason1]

Remember it's called "pipe-weed" for a reason. Longbottom leaf is particularly good and pairs well with salted pork.

[@edavies7083]

@@sambird7946 😆

[@SadbhW]

Cannabis wasn't introduced to Europe until a thousands years after the Anglo Saxons arrived, mushrooms were their lot

[@akila_melindeth]

The longer you listen to this the more sense it makes. It's surprisingly easy to switch our brains to Old English

[@bluewhaleking6227]

When you're the only Anglo-Saxon noble left in the court because King William the Bastard stripped all your friends of their land and titles, and his lackeys are mocking your bad French

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Then you pack up your family, your goods, your retainers and off you go to serve the Byzantines.

[@turmuthoer]

>Be Waltheof of Northumbria

[@dannyjames8894]

This made me really upset to think about

[@turmuthoer]

@@dannyjames8894 If you think that's bad, wait until you hear about the Harrying of the North.

[@ElevenDollarCheese]

"Hides.....hides for the tanner's son...." William: "you're gonna pay for that" And they did.

[@scatlauncher]

This is absolutely fantastic. You've elevated the genre with this one. You raised the bar.

[@ThomasColesAlex]

Indeed they have. But the fact this is now a genre...

[@garciat]

Raised the bard.

[@MichaelJohnson-]

When the 1000 year old version is better than the 10 year old version.

[@latvianminecrafter8040]

My favorite word in this song is pipon

[@cartylaser2864]

@@latvianminecrafter8040 Ætta. I wondered how tf they got that as an abbreviation of fæder. But then I realised I'm not sure how dad is short for father.

[@hungrybird17]

@@cartylaser2864 Dad is not short for father, it stands as a word with a different origin which I think it's quite cool. The easiest combination of letters that humans can produce during early childhood are m-, t-, p-, d-, with the vowel A. That's the reason why the baby words for mother and father are mama, tata, dada, papa in almost every language. As for germanic languages I don't know much about their evolution but I do know about Romance Languages since proto European language where the words for father where: phtér/atta (again the a-t-a combination) which evolved into similar forms in its descendant languages: father/vader/Vater for English, Dutch and German and pateras/pater/padre/padre for Greek, Latin, Spanish and Italian.

[@cartylaser2864]

@@hungrybird17 Didn't know that, that's quite interesting.

[@anonymousmobster2444]

Oh shit pumped up kicks is 10 years old now

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

What's suprising is that the lyrics are still readable in modern English if you look hard enough.

[@ecliiipsssse]

Teache me your Magic, wizard

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

@@ecliiipsssse just use old and simple words. For example, it kept on singing, "All the other child"

[@ecliiipsssse]

@@alphaundpinsel2431 IT WORKS

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

@@ecliiipsssse :)

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

This song speaks of the Anglo-Saxon archer whose father was slain in battle by Sweyn Forkbeard’s men. He later joined the fight against Erik of Denmark as Cnut the Great consolidated the entire Northern Sea. It is in the final lines where we see or rather hear his thoughts as he leads a daring attack of archers against the Viking king, in order to create a peaceful unity in the North, alas in the end this unnamed archer is slain by a charging enemy. He may have died but his dream of creating a peaceful North is realized by the great emperor Cnut the Great.

[@tireachan6178]

I want to know why in 1066 he had a pipe and what he was smoking? He was 500 years ahead of his time in that regard

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

@@tireachan6178 probably pipeweed or pipe grass

[@PanahHistory]

😭😭😭

[@BEV_shorts]

Damn this back story makes this so much more intense

[@portgasempire7867]

Damn why did you have to kill him off 😭😭😭

[@Vilekiwi]

My English teacher chose this for a lesson like out of all the songs in the world she choose a song about school shooters

[@trajanfidelis]

At this point, fuck it

[@LugaresYJuegosTM]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaWWY5SCeLOAo7M

[@michaeltagor4238]

are you american cus if you are that's just appropriate of her to do that

[@MariaNicolae]

School archers

[@JBDiamondCutter]

Imagine being able to show this to the Anglo Saxons... They'd be amazed what their cultural legacy has achieved.

[@luke8264]

well, English is one of the most spoken languages around the world, so I’m sure our kinsmen would be proud.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

And then tell them that you are watching it on a glass box, in a nation 3000 miles across the ocean from jolly old angleland

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography jokes on you I'm watching it in Eoforwic

[@jsprung8548]

The accuracy of the language and accents on certain words/vowels is really incredible! This should have a billion likes lol

[@MasterOfWarLordOfPeace]

Well... I hope this goes on and on until you make "Pumped Up Kicks: In early bronze age Indo-European language"

[@EmilReiko]

reconstructed proto-indoeuropean

[@brainandforce]

I am dying to see this happen even though there are probably a lot of words that would be missing from the known ones. Maybe a more recent protolanguage, like Proto-Germanic?

[@kalebjacobsen9411]

->Finish reconstruction of proto indo European ->Use it to further memes Yeah, that plan sounds about right.

[@biodude15]

"Pumped up kicks, but sung by a neanderthalic chorus"

[@9Geeple]

Now my peeps can finally appreciate my linguistics degree - if I can turn them on to bardcore

[@cas1652]

I love how English and German had a common ancestor. English: run Old English: rinne German: rennen English: bow Old English: boga German: bogen English: my Old English: minum German: meinen English: with Old English: mid German: mit

[@fds7476]

English: Your Old English: Thy German: Dein English: You Old English: Thou German: Du

[@minutemansam1214]

@@fds7476 Thy and Thou are early modern English. In old English these are thin and thu respectively.

[@fds7476]

@@minutemansam1214 Wow, that's even better!

[@wierdalien1]

@@fds7476 you is also not a modern version of thy, but a different version

[@toslaw9615]

You just kicked "thou" out.

[@potassium1311]

i love how old english has some pretty funny words ( by modern english standards) in the sense some words are almost TOO literal. (Suprise = wundor-gife ≈ wonder gift) for example

[@TheMichaelK]

Actually it's very Germanic in this way, putting nouns together to form a new noun, instead of importing it from French or Latin 😅

[@neathizar9743]

Also the evolution of some such as Soccum-'sohc'-sock which isnt shoe but its still fairly close

[@numbers4851]

I want a wonder gift

[@leod-sigefast]

Better than using a foreign origin French word such as surprise. Words like that are hidden under the vail of foreignness so we English peasants don't have any sense of its true meaning but surprise would literally translate in to English as 'under-take' or 'under-grab'. To a French person surprise would sound as 'undertake' does to our ear. Nothing funny about a word just because you are not used to it. Most multi-syllable words are made up (compounded) from smaller word units. Latin languages just the same as Germanic languages. Only modern English feels some great shame in using its own Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word stock. Survive is another word that makes me shake my head. Almost every language in Europe uses a word, from their own word stock, literally meaning 'overlive'. Survive literally means 'overlive' but again, hidden behind the veil of 'foreignness' via French. French: survivre (lit. overlive), Spanish: sobrevivir (lit. overlive), Italian: Sopravvivere (lit. overlive), German: überleben (lit. overlive), Dutch: overleven (lit. overlive), Swedish: överleva (lit. overlive)...and on. What is the problem English?!! The Norman conquest really did a bad number on you! Use your own god damn words and do not be ashamed!! Brook Anglish!!

[@TheMichaelK]

@@leod-sigefast Now that was well said.

[@ThumbSipper]

The fact that "all the other kids" phonetically sounds almost the same is fucking me up lol

[@zambie119]

When your in school in 1066 and the quiet kid pulls a bow out of his bag.

[@yaklin104]

It's so frustrating cause enough of the words are close enough to English that I can sort of understand some of it lol

[@ChronicNewb]

I find that I feel like I can understand it if I'm not paying attention, but if I start trying to listen to the words, I lose all sense of meaning

[@daltonslayton6766]

If you know German and English it works out really well

[@wet_camo_crocs_0041]

English and German. Like the word mid is with but in german its Mit. Lol. Amazing

[@wet_camo_crocs_0041]

@@daltonslayton6766 lol yeah.

[@daltonslayton6766]

@@wet_camo_crocs_0041 also ic and ich for I

[@Neckromorph]

This song is honestly so well made. I'm not that familiar with Old English, just a few words, but this sounds so beautiful. In a way it kind of makes me sad for what English once was and how much it's changed. It really makes me want to learn it. It's funny too, I actually know the lyrics to this cover more than the original song.

[@mimisezlol]

[shakes fist] CURSE YOU NORMAN INVASION

[@brendahines4153]

@@mimisezlol Battle of Hastings !!!❤lol. I appreciate your humor!

[@mimisezlol]

@@brendahines4153 aw thanks. I think a lot about how English's most confusing aspects have to do with the influences of other languages, and how big a shift French control of England caused in the overall English lexicon and stuff, and all because of this channel.

[@Saasbutter]

​@Mr. Graves It sounds certainly cool, but i would have a hell of a time learning english as a non native😅

[@perryplayzzz]

@@mimisezlol CURSE YOU WILLIAM DE NORMANDY!

[@YouraverageAmerican-c4v]

We’re protecting the English throne from the Normans with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

[@cheddarcheeseisgood8030]

When the Normans kid starts crossing the channel:

[@wrungamukrun3657]

I’m baffled how well this still works. The consonants are still rhythmic, and the lyrics still have a recognizable pattern along the instrumentation.

[@xzy3711]

When he said the other kids with the fancy shoes I felt that on a spritual level

[@cb7235]

This way this flows so perfectly illustrates that English has changed in many ways, yet still also stays the same in other ways

[@tvela595]

I love how all the bardcore channels are trying to outdo each other with this one song only

[@scirusx5724]

Me as an asian:"I'm very good at english." KZbin:Nah there's more to it.....

[@Danny_5710]

British: Want some opium?

[@aniro5204]

@@Danny_5710 bwahahhahaha

[@r.pizzamonkey7379]

The crazy part is when you look at old english. Sometimes words sound close enough to their modern counterparts that you might be able to recognize a word here or there but _reading_ it? Forget about it. Hƿæt is pronounced "what"

[@OokamiKageGinGetsu]

@@r.pizzamonkey7379 Kind of like how Hank Hill pronounces what, emphasising the h.

[@CesarGarcia-nd5xz]

I thought you were Jamaican

[@FacelessDeviant]

Ah, olde english is so close to norse that I can almost read this as a native.

[@belisarius6949]

Ah, Old English is so close to German that I can almost read it as a native.

[@Avi2Nyan]

Ah, Old English is... Not really that close to Dutch, so I can't actually listen to this as a native. Definitely some in there but not nearly enough

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

Old English is so close to Old English, that I almost read it as a native

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

Btw, did you mean Norwegian?

[@FacelessDeviant]

@@user-pm1gb2eo1s Yep, old english is almost so close to old english that it can be mistaken for the same thing! (I make joke!)

[@petermallia558]

We need this taught in English schools from day one. Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland all have their versions of Galic, and we English need this to give out children once again a sense of belonging, historic purpose from a foundation built upon a long and great cultural history that's fascinating to say the least. An opt out policy for this parents that's don't want it for their children although that'll soon dissappear as children that can speak old English will use it between themselves and the ones that can't would soon become jealous and want in, but it has to be taught from day one in nursery, only speaking in a mix of contemporary and modern by one teacher and only old English by another making them bilingual, also bring back Latin for our children too.