Speaking Anglo-Saxon - Seven Ages of Britain - Series 1 Episode 1 Preview - BBC One

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David travels throughout Britain in search of the greatest works of art from the time: the mosaics of Bignor Roman Villa, the burial treasure of Sutton Hoo, Anglo-Saxon poetry, and Alfred the Great's Jewel. He also goes abroad, throughout Europe, to find objects either made in Britain, or which tell us something about our past.
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[@louthegiantcookie]

The language of the ancestors!

[@joannechisholm4501]

Yes English of old

[@claireglory]

@@joannechisholm4501 more like german of old.

[@adam-uy6qg]

@@claireglory its old english. A mix of saxony/angles/jutes languages

[@lix6028]

@@claireglorydid you know that English are part of the Germanic family like the Norse

[@user-og1zw2cr9j]

@@adam-uy6qg sure, in north germany they were speaking old english and brought that language to britain.

[@jetzers]

I am from Drenthe in The Netherlands. This lies next to Northern Germany and is part of the region where hey speak Low-Saxon. My wife is Frisian and she speak Frisian. My native tongue, Low-Saxon and Frisian were the foundation for English together with Danish dialects an French. If you look at Dutch than you see an language between English and German. Deep = Diep = Tief Bread = Brood = Brot Dream = Droom = Traum We = We = Wir Me = me = mir and so on....

[@S374PH]

the fact that dream is so close to trauma explains alot hahaha

[@egbront1506]

@@S374PH Except that trauma is from the Greek for wound and a recent newcomer to English.

[@S374PH]

@@egbront1506 huh no way, the more you know!

[@Fritz999]

Holland's ist closer to old Saxon than English or high German. In parts of Westphalia the regional language is also still quite close to old Saxon.

[@mikeycraig8970]

English was pretty much developed by the time of its French additions. And even so, where a French word is more prevalent the English original still exists also. Which is why we have a lot of words that can mean the same thing.

[@AlienSexRanger]

I like the way that anglo saxon sounds.

[@luke8264]

Makes me proud to be of English descent. Always thought it was weird that the older folks in the family would say hwhat, but it makes more sense now as it comes from Old English, and of course dates back even further to Proto Germanic.

[@shivangnautiyal3522]

When you study colonisation of countries like india africa Australia it will make you ashame

[@danielf1313]

@@shivangnautiyal3522 who cares?

[@tovlonia1594]

@@shivangnautiyal3522 Africa isn’t a country.

[@SpicyDoughnuts]

@@shivangnautiyal3522 😢🎻🤏🏻

[@vatsal7640]

​@@shivangnautiyal3522lol why??

You know, I feel good that I know english and I can speak it. It's such a beautiful language. Wish I could speak it without being altered a bit by the influence of my native latin or better said romance language. Always been fascinated by the history of the anglo-saxons. Cheers from Romania!

[@hobi1kenobi112]

Such a shame that the BBC is no longer interested in our culture any more to put out such interesting and informative factual things.

[@ripvanwinkle6557]

They're more interested in utterly exterminating our culture now. Perhaps they always were.

[@mayleecao3063]

Modern english: cash me outside how bou da

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito And even so, Beowulf wasn't written in a regional dialect, it was written in a standardized poetic form comprised mostly of West Saxon and some Anglian. It was a standard litterary version and not subject to such variations.

[@KlaraL-_-]

This was really wonderful to hear.

[@73dickie]

You know what, it's nice to hear what we English sound like to other countries. Cheers for that. It must be odd listening to us as I agree, you can probably pick words from most European languages in there. I love our language as it's so diverse and our accents vary vastly. Does the German language have accents? I guess it would, but to an Englishman, it sounds pretty much the same, no matter what region you're from.

[@unhooked25]

We are Anglo Saxon and couldn't be prouder. If you can't hear us now, we'll yell a little louder. And we owe no one an explanation or an apology.

[@aliveli-hq6zk]

soylediklerini tekrar dusun.

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort Yes, I can imagine that learning Swe. must be a bit difficult for an E.-man pronounciationwise, but surely you must also have spotted many simple words ( basic verbs, nouns, adjectives) and bits of basic grammar ( structure / word order ) in Swe. that looked "mysteriously" familiar to you? Sometimes it's the Swe. words ( or the Nor.) words that are most similar to E - other times ( often) it's ours, as well as certain sounds ( e.g. the -th-sound (eth) and expressions.

[@robertmastnak581]

Excelent , its very interesting for me ...👍👌😁🤔😉

[@MasonHatfieldLogorrhea]

Sounds pretty german to me, but that's just because it's germanic lol

[@saxonysaxonia395]

Mason Hatfield this language live in north germany. In the native land of the saxons. I come from City of Cuxhaven. And i understand this language. Im a saxon.. Greets

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Yes from france galatians

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

@@saxonysaxonia395 the saxons were from france frissia

[@Hellsconsort]

@Bjowolf2 (2)-make more sense in the latter (a geordie is someone from Newcastle). You're typing English so I guess you recognise when words are similar, (as you've just done, enjoyed reading that btw) so not much point in listing them. My favourite phrase is 'gan hyem' which is old Norse from the Norwegians I believe. Means 'going home'. I get really interested in a nerdy way when I see words from my local dialect are the same like: 'ney/no/nej' 'nuw/now/nu' 'bairn/childbarn'.

[@norseczar27]

Actually the Saxons came from saxony which is in Germany.

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort Ah, yes - I knew that one, tak ;-) We used "gange" a lot earlier on, but rare now - mostly used poetically. en ganger is a walker - or a horse En land-GANG is a "GANG-way" etc. We even say hjem [yem] ( also with a now mute h ), whereas the Swedes have "hem" ( with h pron.). Ah, yes - nu for nuw and "barn" for "bairn" are also familiar examples. But it runs much deeper than those ( with E as whole, I mean ), as Anglo Saxon & Norse were already two closely related langauges.

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito Firstly, regional dialects are composed of slang and vowel differentiation. Secondly, I was correcting this man's quotation of Beowulf which was written down in a standardised literary dialect of OE and therefore, this entire discussion has been around that dialect. If you think we were discussing something else, you are sorely mistaken and have been fighting a lost cause.

[@Hellsconsort]

@Bjowolf2 I'm from a place called Newcastle in England, we speak the most original English still, apparently 70% of words from this region are Anglo-Saxon origin, compared with an average of 35% national average. As it happens I've also been learning Swedish for a couple of years on and off (hard for an Englishman!) and we have many Germanic, Scandinavian words. There have been poems for example, translated from anglo-saxon into English, then translated from anglo-saxon into geordie, and they-

[@joannechisholm4501]

Didi u know that 75% of us are of Angle people

[@jaif7327]

@@joannechisholm4501 that’s not true you fool

[@ArchieFatcackie]

What’s six in a row in Anglo Saxon?

[@benfisher1376]

You do, and its beautiful. I'm a southerner but love the North. Wassail 😂

[@bleachfan178]

my last name is Espinal and i was in google , trying to find my ancient kind and the family crest and history and it said Espinal is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon orgin and comes from a family once having lived in the settlement of AspinWall, which was in the parish of Aughton in Lancashire county.The name Aspinwall literally means the aspen-well, referring to a well near a grove of aspen tress. Please reply if you know any important details

[@adventussaxonum]

@vwbora1point8T - actually many of the grammatical changes pre-dated the Normans,and were a result of interaction with the Danes of the Danelaw.

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort Excellent - thank you very much ;-) Yes, I have heard a bit about this, and you are right, but it probably would also take some time & effort for me to learn & tune into Geordie as well. Aha, impressive. So have you ever seen, read or heard any Danish? It's roughly 80-90 % the "same" as Swe.- just slightly different spelling and somewhat different pronounciation without all the "singing" and more plain less "accurate" ). We can tune into each others, but easier in reading.

[@friedensmal]

Anglo-Saxon language sounds beautiful.

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort To us (os) over (over) here (her) in Scand. learning E is rel. easy and feels (føles) almost more (mere) like (lige /lika) expanding our (vor) own languages, since we (vi) already (allerede!) "know" so (så) much of the basics in advance. The words are also very often much more sim. to E than their Ger. counterparts are. e.g. have vs. haben, give vs. geben, tage (from taka) = take, drive [dree-ve] vs. treiben, hade / hata = hate vs. hasse etc., håbe[ho-be] / hoppa = hope vs. hoffe

[@Bjowolf2]

And it's of course also due a long "E" trad. for writing good pop, jazz and rock songs ;-) But there are tons of great songs in other languages, which unfort don't get much chance in the E speaking nations. Why these are not translated more often is a big mystery to me. Even "my" more plain Danish (not melodic - except for some dialects) can sound beautiful - at least to us LOL ( It prob. depends on wether you are tuned into it and its sounds ) - even when sung! ( We have lots of lovely songs )

[@Bjowolf2]

@VendeeD85 Yes, a very scary thought indeed LOL

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito Firstly, all you have to do is look at it and you would see it is theodcyninga and not perqueninga...Secondly, while we will never know precise pronunciation and accents, we can derive very accurate reconstructions based on linguistic evolution as any linguist could tell you. The letter he mistakes for a P is a Þ which we know for a fact represents "th."

[@fatty3383]

It's fascinating how such a language and dialect evolved into what we are speaking today...will it change again in centuries to come.

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort The upcoming Swedish-Danish thriller Broen / Bron (Swe) = the BRIdge on BBC4 may be of great interest to you then, as you will get to hear a lot of Swedish and Danish at the "same" time - as well as get to see some hilarious "conflicts" and misunderstandings in attitude and way of thought between us.

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito It was, in fact, you who were jumping to premature conclusions. Also, as I said, no one knows exactly what it sounded like... that being said, "th" does not sound like a "P" in any period of the english tongue.

[@TheNisSeee]

Shakespeare next to yes, believe me homer simpson gave the English language most of the words we speak today ... Shakespear .. beautifull ... homer simpson .. unbelievable

[@ashleysoulful]

@Bjowolf2 Thanks to the French and Norman invasion, english is now a quite beautiful language and it's a very melodic language too. I think without that, English will sound German or like Scandinavian language, and I'm sure the English songs will be less popular than now. this language is a good mix. :)

[@mickbmx]

@ManlnCognito i thought they were celts ?

[@Bjowolf2]

@ashleysoulful Nah, don't think you are right. The Norman invasion ( NOT the French!) along w. Latin contributed a lot of new words to E, but they were added to an already thriving base language, which was a fusion of the closely related West Germanic Anglo Saxon ( Old E ) and the North Germanic Norse ( Old Scand. - ca. Icelandic even today! ) Of course it changed E a lot, but not in the way you assume. Mainly it gave E a huge vocabulary with sev. words for each concept + changed vowels.

[@davidbouvier8895]

The ancestors of the Normans who invaded England in 1066 were Vikings. But the Normans had long since abandoned their Old Norse tongue and spoke a variety of French, which continued to be spoken by English kings as their first language for a couple of centuries more. This was the period of the major import of a largely latinate French vocabulary into English. Its influence can still be seen in titles like 'Governor General' which put the noun first followed by the adjective. But by Chaucer's time (late 14c) the dominant form of French in France was no longer this earlier Norman French.

[@izybunny1999]

wowz

[@LordTharrion]

"Trying to speak" being the key phrase. It's Theodcyninga not perqueninga... (crash and burn)

[@Bjowolf2]

@Bjowolf2 The melodic accents already existed. Norw. & Swe. are far more melodic languages (like Scotish E) than E. And Ger. is act. better than E to sing in with all its open vowels. The pop. of E songs is mainly due to the large number of speakers & the vast vocab. that makes it easier to find a word that fits a line in a song. Most of the basic words in E. have close cognates in Scand. and/ or in German / Dutch ... The Fr. & L. parts are to a large part more like the glacing on the E cake.

[@SaraWilsonBasturk]

@vwbora1point8T Wouldn't that be "Ich will nach Hause kommen" in modern German? I was taught that "nach Hause" is an idiomatic way of saying "home" even though "nach" would generally only be used to refer to places that would have a name on a map such as a city or a country. :-)

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito Alright. I stand corrected... At least i am big enough to know when I am mistaken. But it's not really yours and ours... they are perfectly acceptable variations in either country.

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito ME? I am not trying to standardise anything. Beowulf was written in the standard litterary dialect of the time. It is not a "written language" rather it was a written representation of said dialect. It is more likened to writing in Scots vs. the Queen's English than reading an American paper in a North English accent.

[@zaikapasaica]

every single word sounds like harry potter's spells :P

[@magnusbruce4051]

Is it bad that I knew he was reciting the first verses of Beowulf before he said so? I performed the first few lines for a song once, initially in english and then I made an attempt at the anglo saxon original text...probably sounds nothing like how it should!

[@timmeyer4595]

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon...

[@OFP-Flashpoint]

Translate?

[@m4m3tx]

@@OFP-Flashpoint Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, Listen! We of the Spear-Danes in days of yore þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, Of those folk-kings the glory have heard, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. How those noblemen brave-things did.

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito Anyway, there are plenty of Old English readings on youtube so i shouldn't have to post one, just search Beowulf in old english and you'll find it right there and it is read by someone who has learned it from scholars... REAL scholars.

[@timmeyer4595]

Something between Islendska and Dutch)

[@Bjowolf2]

@Hellsconsort So knowing Swe. you would probably fairly easy be able to read a Dan. paper, once you learnt to see through the small & fairly predictable differences in spelling and the odd words that mean something compl. different, or which don't exist in the other languge. Writtten Norw. looks very sim. to D as well - a bit like US vs. UK E, so basically they are just poor spellers ;o) Aha, sounds interesting (poem) - will have to check those out ( think I have seen an example ).

[@bslimgd5912]

Anglo Saxon is a interesting language

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito And Modern English has been standardised in the exact same way; litterary. American English and British English are two different standardisations however their is a cross barrier standard form which is used between the two making a standard English dialect. It has been standardised (point=moot) and as fro the rest... research some etymology for both our sakes.

[@user-xo9bh1cu8e]

can anyone translate the anglo-saxon phrase?

[@chrispage3166]

its the first sentence of beowulf

[@Bjowolf2]

I was of course only joking about those "Frænch" speaking Normans ;-) ( act. they weren't really speaking Fr., but a related language! ) I of course meant no offense to the French speaking people of the World. E is a fairly easy lang. for us in Scand. to learn. It's as if we already know most of the basics in advance and don't have to think very much - just add extra words to our vocabulary - mostly of of Fr. , L or Gr. origin - plus some extra grammar. Like an extension of our lang.s act.

[@TobyW360]

@ManlnCognito haha tough guy on youtube

[@ShahAlam-ti2sq]

KZbin subtitler writes different things, "What? We gardener in yonder compare Quang Ninh guitarra me from him who Arthur lingos Ellen from Adam". 🙄 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RedOakCrow]

Only a tiny fraction of the current inhabitants of Britain have Anglo-Saxon heritage, the rest of the indigenous descended people are Britons.

[@ElSantiagoBonilla]

In my opinion it sounds better than the crap they speak today.

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

Santiago Bonilla Yeah, and in an alternative universe there somebody speaking Anglo-Saxon saying our English sounds better than the crap they speak today. I suggest you watch Henry V and his Cry god speech before slagging off our beloved post-Norman tongue

[@theletterlcounts560]

English is not crap...

[@shawnv123]

@@europeanbourgeois8223not a beloved norman tongue

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito U never denied that you can read standardised languages in different accents... that is blatantly obvious. But dialects are distinctly set apart from accents. And once again, I was simply correcting his mistake, not passing judgment, and you are being obnoxious for insisting i am judgmental.

[@Daniel0889]

He looks like Anthony Hopkins' twin brother...

[@stevenmontoya9950]

I didn't know Baldric's grandad covered elections on the side

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Whet per froumin

[@cbrusharmy]

@ExNihilMetal Love the post, not so much the out-dated anthropological categories of the "races."

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito Where do come come by the belief that "p" is a regional variation on "th." Languages follow vary specific sound shifts. Dental sounds are always dental, labail always labial. Th hard and soft and d and t. P F and V. there were countless regianal variations which liead to different accents and eve to Scots, but theodcyninga cannot etymologically become percueninga.

[@silenteyesspy]

@apologeticsman: why did you write half Netherlands and half English

[@FirestormAudio]

@vwbora1point8T I'm not trying to be a douche but it's "Ich will nach Hause gehen :-). "nach" is used idiomatically and wollen is a modal verb and modal verbs don't use "zu" with secondary verbs.

[@silenteyesspy]

@VendeeD85: hit is swa treow min frend..

[@temporaldisplacement]

Nay, it will meerly press it's hull toward the waterline.

[@zedasilva3]

@ExNihilMetal Mixing races teach us respecting differences, which you should learn from us. By the way: normans + celts + vikings + saxons + angevins = UK. You're mixed too. The difference is that your people have been inbreeding for a long time, so they seem to be homogeneous, but that doesn't mean that you're not mixed.

[@silenteyesspy]

@OdinGegenAllah: Du bist German, deshalb antworten wie dass. The fact is that Dutch is a West Germanic language just like English, and I understand Dutch much better than German. Dutch, and English are pretty much one in the same, except the English kept the þ, ð, and w from the old days

[@adammessina6182]

silenteyesspy yup 👍🏻 Friesland is in modern Netherlands 🇳🇱 with lots of them came over with saxons around 500

[@kdelg001]

Romans influenced everything all around the world. They were the greatest people ever. From military to law to medicine and science to organization. They fell just like everyone else: too ambitious and over extended. Like every other and present super power.

[@nergizgunduz]

And they were from central Asia ,Etruscans

[@christiancristof491]

And etruscan were also an Italic population near Latium, in Tuscany and around, so what the fuck are you talking about?

[@hakureishrine]

Christian Cristof probably an idea propagated from Turkish propaganda. The Romans were certainly not from central Asia.

[@roro2k]

Now we got hood talk ☠️☠️☠️

[@dabunnyrabbit2620]

What will the language today sound like in one thousand years...🤔🤔🤔 Update: We'll probably be talking in abbreviations. "Lo wyd" "Nm fwiw is idk twrlt" "Nbd Ik iwyf" "Ttyl" "Kk" Can you translate it?

[@drcrow5767]

Sounds welsh

[@zedasilva3]

@zedasilva3 So, study a little more about the subject before making so harsh statements. Be respectful and humble if you want to learn. God bless you.

[@ibrahimbenza6432]

Sanskriting immitating my g coded serenity into d without her,cathy at the stonehenge right..?

[@mty1]

borrowings#

[@ConstantineJoseph]

Stubborn? I thought the Anglo Saxons was quite accepting of the Romano British culture particularly the late Roman model of civilization and military. The only ones stubborn now are the modern Brits

[@ConstantineJoseph]

No you're not, you're just British. Times have changed

[@graffitijunkiejfk]

hahaha. Post your DNA results for us all to see then...

[@ConstantineJoseph]

Most have predominantly Anglo Saxon DNA but that pure heritage is long gone. I myself would like to call myself Han Chinese but I'm not. Even the idea of all Chinese people are one and the same is not correct. All empires are an amalgamation of ethnicities and different peoples. The modern man has a shared DNA with many many former ethnicities

[@AdamAus85]

@chrisjoneschrisjones And yet I don't see how it was racist.

[@zedasilva3]

@ExNihilMetal And you also said that mixing races fuked us up, buy you don't even know how the dyinamics of miscigenation worken in our tupiniquim lands. There are some works that might help you understand a little bit of the complex characteristics of Brazilian culture and race in Brazil like "Raízes do Brazil" from Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and "O Povo Brasileiro" from Darcy Ribeiro.

[@THINKincessantly]

English in Texas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Jarhead8741]

the Romans never beat the Anglo-Saxons when the Romans owned England the modern Welsh were there.

[@paulusrafaelis4337]

But you know, the welsh didnt speak anglo-saxon, they spoke a Celtic lenguage. Btw they werent the welsh, the welsh were given that name by the saxons which means Foreigner, before there they were called britons

[@joannechisholm4501]

Yes the Brythonic Britons

[@FuroraCeltica]

So basically the Anglo-Saxons spoke Lord of the Rings languages :)

[@minskdhaka]

Well, Tolkien used to teach Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and also spoke various Scandinavian languages, so when he made up the languages of Middle Earth, he was influenced by what he knew.

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito And you are missunderstanding me. I am not being judgmental, I agreed that he was "trying" and nothing more. You are being judgmental in CALLING me judgmental- FACE IT. And I'm sorry if Americans are so "judgmental" but even more sorry that the English are so SENTITIVE! Judgment is saying that Americans are obnoxious, not saying he was wrong.

[@zedasilva3]

@ExNihilMetal beyond your race determinism. Even Weber made it clear that is impossible to a single characteristic (like race) to explain the level of development of a people, there are infinite causes which can never be fulled explained. And there are also the Frankfurt School or Critical Theory, that even criticizes what people call underdevelopment. And the HGP also proves that from the 35000 genes we have, only 10 define what we call races, making "race" a scientifically inacurate term.

[@08V09]

it sounds like dutch..what is he saying anyway

[@NZealandKiwi]

errrrrr, you what?

[@martinranalli8572]

Were/are the Anglo-Saxons German?

[@TheOsmanly]

It is pure Germanic My God i can't believe that Anglo-Saxons fought Germans in WW2 because they were brothers.

[@MixerRenegade95]

Germanic Folk fight each other all the time, well before the World Wars why are you amazed?

[@NiniQenti]

@ExNihilMetal oh my god...I repeat..the matter of the neanderthal it's not a recent discovery...don't invent something that does not exist...it's quite controversial old theory and more it's absolutely genetic prove that we not descend from neanderthal and even we have not any of them...coz sapiens(cro-magnon) and neanderthal never cruzed between them..infact more than genetic we have costums completely different that prove that they never cruzed!

[@ryko26]

and the rest of this...?

[@Bjowolf2]

Now, if only those BEEEP Normans hadn't switched to Frænch - OR they had stayed where they belonged - , we would probably still be able to talk across the North Sea ;-) Engelske folk haver mange (many) af vore (our) (w)ord(s), så I [ee, ~ye ] kan se, hvad vi siger [seey-er, say ] over her(e) i(n) Danmark. Hav en god dag alle mine engelske frænder ;-)

[@honkytonk4465]

Last sentence sounds like low german :hebbt en goden dag alle mine engelsk frünnen

[@LordTharrion]

@ManlnCognito And i have come across people from England who are far more obnoxious and judgmental than I... (and on the topic it is judgment... not judgement [if you can take half hearted constructive criticism that is... and if you can't then don't bother trying to correct other people]

[@silenteyesspy]

English would have sounded like a mix between German and Dutch. Do actual research before making an ass out of thine self. That's why high German still has the word Saxon in it, as does Dutch. Dutch Saxon

[@miliba]

normans brought the romanic element in our language thats gay!

[@ECTBWHO]

: )

[@fbcfnc3891]

is that old German

[@christopherthewreckerthats2295]

Us English are still celts

[@willparker9874]

No we aren't

[@christopherthewreckerthats2295]

@@willparker9874yes we are known your history

[@martinranalli8572]

The English are German and Celts.

[@martinranalli8572]

The English are German and Celt.

[@martinranalli8572]

The English are Germans and Celts.

[@razenburn]

Fik 'edednis, if you will

[@benjunum]

Really bad reading of Old English (not 'Anglo-Saxon') :(

[@NiniQenti]

@ExNihilMetal Man we already told about that...we can't catalogate that.....only fenotipes...and fenotipes r not able to categorize...r not genes...!we can't do these categories....nation, tribe, ethnicity....we have not a peculiar genetic type that permit that....n repeat...i can have a mix of genes more similar to an african man that to the guy that lives next to me......it's genetic..if u want to do pseudo science than urs is the right way

[@pizofsoda]

Anglo Saxon sounds like a better version of Latin

[@waitingforbrain]

Anglo saxon sounds so much like welsh and irish!

[@johnfargher99]

No the celts were just subsumed into Saxon society. Genetic profiling has led scientists to estimate that the nos of Germanic invaders in the 5th and 6th centuries was between 100,000 and 200,000 into an existing population of 2-4 million so the genetic impact was minimal. Essentially alot of the Celts started to speak the language of the invaders.

[@deuschess816]

cry more