You portray the text as a singing - miraculous, touching, and sublime
@joshtyra7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, that's very kind.
@bigred94287 ай бұрын
That's how they used to remember epic poems -- they "sang" them. You can still hear this in Ireland.
@Heikinnen03016 ай бұрын
Great vid to sleeping
@LittleImpaler8 жыл бұрын
It's nice to know the word "and" hasn't changed much. :)
@bluespyusa89798 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise I was the only one in the And protection society...' Back off Norman! XD
@ineffablemars7 жыл бұрын
even in german it's und - not too different
@anonymousperson64626 жыл бұрын
LittleImpaler temple and sword were hardly changed as well.
@thekatazsiuniverse48686 жыл бұрын
Horny Aleks not all British dialects
@theperson82755 жыл бұрын
as well as "today"
@jpthomas94915 жыл бұрын
"You will find a child, wrapped in cloth and laying in a bin" "Excuse me?" "The kid's in a bin"
@sirbillius5 жыл бұрын
Ha a binne. I didn’t catch that. That’s pretty funny.
@mookins455 жыл бұрын
kid's in a cage
@phoebexxlouise5 жыл бұрын
I saw that haha
@crystallogic25434 жыл бұрын
Keep on rocking in the free world
@mauigio4 жыл бұрын
THINE NUTS!
@joshtyra5 жыл бұрын
When this video had only 7,000 views, a former Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library observed, "That’s probably a larger number than ever heard that text read aloud in Anglo-Saxon England." How much more must that be true today, with 20 times that number of views! Thank you, everyone. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
@sagidasyed63142 жыл бұрын
Yes❤️❤️❤️❤️
@sagidasyed63142 жыл бұрын
Sorry if it's out of context but does anyone know the name of the background song? It's beautiful 😍😍😍
@joshtyra2 жыл бұрын
@@sagidasyed6314 Thanks! I wrote the music. The details are in the description field.
@sagidasyed63142 жыл бұрын
@@joshtyra oh my goodness!!!!!!!! You are so talented!!!!!! 😍😍 It's such a beautiful Christmas medieval song! You really are a medieval monk composer😂🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
@joshtyra2 жыл бұрын
@@sagidasyed6314 Thank you, that's very kind!
@avalonh-b.34124 жыл бұрын
It’s fascinating how “mīne ēagan” is so similar to “meine augen” in german. And the verbs that are formulated in the past tense, like “gesāwon” and “ge-earwodest” are the same as verbs formulated in the perfect tense in German “with the “ge” added to the start of the verb”. So interesting
@sangralknight30314 жыл бұрын
Anglia and Saxony are both in Germanium. Anglo Saxons were originally Germanic tribes. In fact they were some of the most primitive. Odd no, how a language spawned from barbarian tribes considered barbaric by other barbarians became the language spoken across all the world. Last shall be first indeed.
@Evenvesper4 жыл бұрын
English and German both belong to the Germanic Language Family. If the Norman conquest of 1066 hadn't happened English most likely would have remained intact like that of German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and the other Germanic Languages. Actual English without the Latin is quite beautiful!
@DNT9123 жыл бұрын
"Faran" means "Fahren" in German
@MrCubFan4153 жыл бұрын
@@Evenvesper “English without the Latin” Anglish? (Personally, I think English and Anglish are both cool in their own way 🙂)
@shawdo38462 жыл бұрын
In Norwegian it's "augo mine"
@annarose79147 жыл бұрын
I wish English still was like this. Sounds so pretty.
@davetinoco6 жыл бұрын
Anna Rose icelandic is like this somewhat
@AverageAlien5 жыл бұрын
sounds German
@effigytormented4 жыл бұрын
@Denise Bond you mean the diversity dump it was back then too? Because this has a different grammar based on gaelic.
@rastahatattack7064 жыл бұрын
@hunter0one Unfortunately, that only extends so far as vocabulary. I'd love to see something like Anglish, but that keeps Old English's noun and verb conjugations, and an orthography reminiscent of Old English
@rastahatattack7064 жыл бұрын
@hunter0one Not really. Without Norse influence, English probably would have kept a lot of its grammar, like the other North Germanic languages did.
@hizkias26796 жыл бұрын
This is so relaxing, imagine an old english asmr
@joshtyra6 жыл бұрын
I imagine it would sound kind of like Cate Blanchett whispering in Elvish at the beginning of LOTR.
@PLuMUK545 жыл бұрын
This is the best reading of Old English that I've ever heard. The intonation is superb.
@joshtyra5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, that's very kind!
@Platyfurmany5 жыл бұрын
When most folks here in the United States think "Old English," they think of the 1611 King James Bible or Shakespeare. Thank you for giving me this so that I can demonstrate to all my friends here in the States what true Old English, or as I like to call it, Anglo-Saxon sounds like!
@ugfolder5 жыл бұрын
English is just French and German together its easy
@basedgodkyon3 жыл бұрын
@@ugfolder smh
@ugfolder3 жыл бұрын
@@basedgodkyon it was supposed to be a basic explanation put together
@basedgodkyon3 жыл бұрын
@@ugfolder Even that basic explanation is just plain wrong
@kenny55772 жыл бұрын
@@ugfolder old English is old Norse Dutch and Danish. German has nothing to do with it
@javoZ325 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard several linguist’s reading old English, and many sounded very good to my ears, some though, were a little rough in interpretation. Yours, sounds to me, exactly as I would’ve imagined it! This sounds softer, and more natural; something akin to modern English, with a dominant but clear Germanic flavor.
@palepilgrim11744 жыл бұрын
It's always amusing to me that people bemoan the 'lack of purity' in Modern English when Old English itself contained like 25% borrowings from Latin in its vocabulary. I think these people seem to think German and Dutch (or even the Scandinavian languages) didn't also borrow massively from Latin and other Romance languages over the centuries. Or that Latin itself didn't borrow massively from Greek, or that Greek didn't borrow massively from Phoenician and other Semitic languages. Languages are always changing and evolving and adapting and borrowing and influencing. They will only ever change through use so if you continue to use all those Romance loanwords when there are perfectly suitable Germanic words already in English or when you can just create new English words by directly translating the Latin loanword (for example/forshow 'upfind' for 'invent' or 'underseaboat' for 'submarine' or 'wordstock/wordbook' for 'vocabulary/dictionary' or 'foodfill/foodhouse/foodhall' for 'restaurant', that's on you. But stop the endless whining and complaining about it if you're going to do f*** all to change it. Good Lord.
@BlueFlame414mdftw3 жыл бұрын
@@palepilgrim1174 you're not wrong but bro chill...
@palepilgrim11743 жыл бұрын
@@BlueFlame414mdftw Yeah it just p**** me off tbh. Be the change you want manifest in the world, what's stopping you, lol.
@javoZ322 жыл бұрын
@@palepilgrim1174 life is short, and isn’t worth being pissed off about things we can't change. If want to spend it being pissed on things that don't matter, that’s on you.
@Survivethejive6 жыл бұрын
skillful reading
@Shoegazebasedgenre0.6 жыл бұрын
Survive the Jive *VERY*
@raykdreisatzgehtanders72396 жыл бұрын
@@Shoegazebasedgenre0. *INDO*
@quantumdragon226 жыл бұрын
@@raykdreisatzgehtanders7239 *EUROPEAN*
@anglishbookcraft15166 жыл бұрын
Indo European
@avzarathustra61645 жыл бұрын
@@anglishbookcraft1516 West Germanic
@wolfgangjannsen5 жыл бұрын
Old English reminds me to Plattdeutsch or Frisian, the languages of my father and grandfather. It has a pure soul and heart without the distructive forces of the french-norman invasion.
@gamingforaday54465 жыл бұрын
Norwegian, danish, swedish, faroese, icelandic = north germanic
@gamingforaday54465 жыл бұрын
English, german, dutch, frisian, luxemburgish, afrikaans = west germanic
@gamingforaday54465 жыл бұрын
Roman, french = sounds like 🐕🐶
@skyworm80064 жыл бұрын
The Norman invasion was irrelevant. All it did was set Anglonorman French as a literary and elite language which in turn influenced later Standard English in its vocabulary. This language here was 'destroyed' by mixing a very similar language, basically the same just removed by a few hundred years, which was Danish Old Norse. New grammar had to develop to account for the grammatical omissions brought about by this. And because that dialect would become the dominant language and eventually displace all other varieties (this only happened in modern times).
@Sawrattan4 жыл бұрын
I doubt the aloof Norman elites forced the Anglo-Saxons to change language ... it was natives themselves who changed their own words just like Asians and Africans today speak English words to sound educated.
@pinoynobody2117 жыл бұрын
Wow, unlike in Old Spanish and Modern Spanish where you can still somewhat grasp some words like: fablo = hablo, fierro = hierro, In the case of Old English it's almost totally unintelligible to Modern English speakers.
@Ninel-qc7hi7 жыл бұрын
Indeed, but the point is that technically Old English and Present day English = English, while Spanish = Old Spanish but Spanish =/= Latin.
@Jbm02307 жыл бұрын
It's more intelligible if you have studied other languages that are related to the proto indo-european. Like Swedish, English, German, etc.
@Longlius7 жыл бұрын
After injections of Old Norse during the Viking invasions in the 800s and Old French during the Norman conquest in 1066, Old English had so many foreign words that its case system no longer really 'worked'. You couldn't really predictably inflect the French or Norse nouns according to OE's rules so nouns just stopped being inflected and auxiliary verbs, prepositions, and strict word order started taking the place of an actual case system. By the time of Chaucer in the 1300s (when English started being taken seriously by the upper classes again), case had pretty much vanished from the language. Nowadays, case only exists as a remnant in the form of pronouns (he/she, his/hers, him/her). AFAIK English is the only major Indo-European language to undergo this transformation - others have gradually simplified their case systems, but none of them have completely dropped case like English has. In a way, OE and Modern English almost exist in completely different paradigms, which is part of what makes OE so incomprehensible to modern speakers.
@italoman97 жыл бұрын
I got "after" -- that was about it for what sounded familiar to me in our modern English! ;o
@ranelgallardo53436 жыл бұрын
The Arabs who controlled Spain for 7 centuries didn't mess with Spanish too much, but the French and old Germanic people who controlled England for years for some time effed with English so much.
@mattrich6805 ай бұрын
Old English is my dream foreign language: word for word translation, idiom for idiom, the grammar is the foundation of the language I use every day, and if you sound out the words, they sound like what they mean. Thank you for reading this, please give us more.
@titaniumfeather50007 жыл бұрын
I feel like I'm in Lord of the Rings listening to an elf in Rivendale
@jacob5276 жыл бұрын
i heard that was what the elf language was based off of.
@brookesmith94136 жыл бұрын
I think Welsh sounds more Elvish. Old English sounds more like the language of Rohan.
@VTdarkangel6 жыл бұрын
@@brookesmith9413 If my understanding is correct, I think the elven language of Quenya is based off of Finnish. Rohan's language is based off of Old English. Tolkien seemed to think of Rohan as what the Anglo-Saxons were before 1066 or if they had their cavalry to fight William.
@gagool34346 жыл бұрын
Isn't the quenya who's based to Finnish ?
@Xerxes20055 жыл бұрын
@@VTdarkangel Quenya is indeed inspired by Finnish language. However, the language we see most used in both the books and the movies is Sindarin, which was based off of Welsh and other celtic languages.
@ariesleorising94216 жыл бұрын
It's a gorgeous language.
@roggeralves946 жыл бұрын
This is the nicest thing ever. Interesting to see how some old pronunciations still persist in certain aspects of current English. I noticed how "child" was pronounced with the same vowel as in "children" back then... That's very interesting!
@musicaldooder207 жыл бұрын
Old English is pleasant to listen to.
@callmeJAF6 жыл бұрын
musicaldooder20 any language is pleasant to listen to with a soothing voice and music.
@saintattilaofcaerbannog26125 жыл бұрын
@@callmeJAF Except for French
@parthiancapitalist27337 жыл бұрын
This is just beauty. I love things like this, old English has changed but yet I can still get a feel of what they are talking about
@marshja564 жыл бұрын
This would be a great language for a metal band.
@imperator74593 жыл бұрын
Lets revive Old English Who's with me?
@cacalover425322 сағат бұрын
No. The English language language should die and should be replaced with something less mutated and less stoopid sounding.
@Vesnicie4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how phonetic English was before the influence of several more languages and the great vowel shift In the following centuries.
@JasperSynth2 жыл бұрын
I blame the french
@Vesnicie2 жыл бұрын
@@JasperSynth Always a good plan.
@jonaw.21535 жыл бұрын
This sounds like an interesting mix of modern English, Dutch, German, and Danish
@frisian26803 жыл бұрын
Have you heard of Fryslân before its like the Brother language of old english
@kenny55772 жыл бұрын
It’s like Dutch and Danish yea more like old Norse also
@lyncunningham656611 ай бұрын
just came upon this today. BRILLIANT! thank you.
@kathrynhill30918 жыл бұрын
Well done. This is a great learning tool, enabling us to both hear and see the connection between some Anglo Saxon and Modern English words in a familiar, beloved text. The music and expressive reading enhance the experience. Thank you.
@joshtyra8 жыл бұрын
I'm so pleased you enjoyed it! Happy New Year.
@stephanwilliams80828 жыл бұрын
... it is very good. I'm a fan also. I play through many times. With hope people will do more vids. Great stuff. This one is the best I have seen.
@gyrocattivo50315 жыл бұрын
Imagine rapping in Old English... now that would be interesting to hear.
@chfrqn4dl4 жыл бұрын
not a rap, but it’s pumped up kicks in old English kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJSuopt6e82Bfqs
@celticanglotx3133 ай бұрын
No it wouldn't
@erice.stewart30205 жыл бұрын
When I hear this, I think of elves- and fairies... This beautiful and very old language.
@rogerclemens92022 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful. Wonderfully done! Old English/Anglo-Saxon is an incredible language that is far too underrated. No matter how many languages I've dabbled in over the years, I always come back to Old English.
@sarahp31444 жыл бұрын
Hearing the most amazing news in the tongue of my ancestors...priceless. Thank you.
@williambaxter9417 жыл бұрын
This is perfect I've been trying to find a video of just talking in Old English, without translations, and at an actual good speed
@duncanmccaulkiner3785 жыл бұрын
Reading this as someone who has studied Latin and German was really interesting. Amazing how English has evolved from the ancestors of other modern languages!
@gameapril7 жыл бұрын
Beautifully read. I'm learning Old English in college and its very helpful and inspiring to hear it read so beautifully and with such enthusiasm.
@lelleithmurray2355 жыл бұрын
Picked out Latin,Celtic and German sounding words in this reading.This is definitely cool!
@mistakenmeme5 жыл бұрын
Lelleith Murray yeah I’ve been learning latin and I noticed the ae(aye) sound a lot!!!
@BabyBugBug4 ай бұрын
Thanks be to God!
@BinkyTheElf14 жыл бұрын
This is very transporting; I found myself listening & following very attentively to the “Godspellen”. Since part of my ancestry is English, I imagine my long-ago pagan ancestors hearing & receiving the Good News, and it dawning on them what God had done for them, too.
@baronvg5 жыл бұрын
Welp, that settles it. If I ever got thrown back in time to England a thousand years ago, I’d be screwed.
@michaelearendil68434 жыл бұрын
Your voice is tender, lyrical and beautiful.
@terrywestbrook-lienert22964 жыл бұрын
This is glorious! It puts me in mind of Tolkien and his LOTR cycle.
@bethrodgers5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting this up. It’s very clear and easy to follow. I’ve been trying to learn Old English for about six months from a book. I’m getting on ok but I struggle with pronunciation and rhythm. Over the Christmas period I’ve learnt the first few verses by heart with the help of your post. I think it’s really helping my pronunciation.
@joshtyra5 жыл бұрын
I love knowing that this reading has been put to use in this way. Thank you so much for sharing! Happy New Year.
@brainmog8254 жыл бұрын
* Warning * Auto Captions, tells a wildly different story.
@ep37984 жыл бұрын
Here’s a wonderful example: “After thumb they tasted ass”
@roguescape4 жыл бұрын
E P where is that😂
@ep37984 жыл бұрын
boomerplays 9112 4:25
@brainmog8254 жыл бұрын
Auto generated Captions, is both a Nonsensical thing to do, and Amazingly Hilarious.
@1cosmicdebris4 жыл бұрын
Bahahahahaaa!!!! Thank you for the suggestion. That's wild!!!!
@friattmoooo7 жыл бұрын
Today is 10th Dec 2016 .. Merry Christmas dear All.. Thank you Mr. Joshua for uploading this lovely blessed story of our Lord Jesus Christ. Subscribed already
@auntiecarol2 ай бұрын
Magnificent reading, sōþlīċe.
@Lyendith7 жыл бұрын
Really a beautiful, overlooked language, and a marvellous reading too. It's a pity that it's so obscure even to English speakers. =[
@wallolo7 жыл бұрын
I think that's because you've listened it with music.
@ChibiPanda8888 Жыл бұрын
Its fascinating how the written language looks completely alien but when its spoken its more comprehensible than it would be just written. Also i appreciate that the reader gives life to the story by how they read it, such as making Simeon's words sound like theyre being said by an old man, by giving alemorion to ehen the angels come in, that sort of thing. Instead of just reading it with no vocal inflection. Thanks for posting!
@joshtyra Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment. I'm so glad you enjoyed the reading. I enjoyed playing all the roles, including the elderly Simeon!
@oldenglishforeveryone-robe82795 жыл бұрын
You've done a great job with this translation and reading. Love it!
@jonathanschilk59825 жыл бұрын
I love old english
@joshtyra5 жыл бұрын
So do I!
@boomboom080605 жыл бұрын
Your reading made my heart glad.
@FransHattingh4 жыл бұрын
What an absolutely gorgeous reading. Such exquisite sounds.
@stagbeetle10504 жыл бұрын
Anyone else find this language extremely soothing ?
@timmeyer45953 жыл бұрын
Me)))
@southridgeshire8834 Жыл бұрын
What a small world! I come wandering in search of some Anglo-Saxon Scripture, and find myself in the online workshop of an old friend!
@joshtyra Жыл бұрын
Welcome, old friend! My pronunciation is better on the "Creation" video. But this is the "viral" one. 🙂
@evelynpohlman10404 жыл бұрын
I like to listen to Old English to relax. This reading is very nice!!
@somebody21165 жыл бұрын
I love how the word "geworden" still exist in the German language. Although it rather means "became"
@gordonblues8438 жыл бұрын
I notice ge- prefix denoting certain past participle as in modern German.
@AdventureTimeBestieVibes5 жыл бұрын
Also modern dutch
@nathanielcrosby24265 жыл бұрын
From what I understand, the prefix was spelled 'ġe' (notice the dot atop the letter), and pronounced as 'ye-'. Might be wrong there, as I'm still a novice in the language.
@anglishbookcraft15163 жыл бұрын
The “a” in English today is the same only shortened. “Asleep” “away” and others.
@paulvincent36343 жыл бұрын
@@nathanielcrosby2426 The German ge- is pronounced 'ye' in modern Berlin dialect!
@waltertaljaard14887 жыл бұрын
For a native speaker of Eastern Dutch Saxon this is a revalation. Allthough Old English also seems to have many Latin and Celtic influences, which especailly makes some plural nouns very different, most verbs are quite familair. Translated into Saxon Dutch the first sentence goes like this; ''Waorlick in die dag'n was `eword'n `n gebod van keizer Augustos dat de hiele weerld was te beschriev'n.''
@erichodge5674 жыл бұрын
I saved this video some three years ago. I don't know what caused me to listen to it today, but I'm glad I did. It was fascinating, and more important, it was beautiful. Thanks!
@DownTopable5 жыл бұрын
You could make yourself understood in Iceland with that Christmas greeting!
@alanfahy45237 жыл бұрын
Extraordinarily vivid and touching.
@bathysphere10706 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the elves from Lord of the Rings.
@cornstar12535 жыл бұрын
Mordor means Mother?
@KBHSKVK5 жыл бұрын
Melon=friend?
@RedPandaGames.5 жыл бұрын
Tolkien knew old English well. He was the most accomplished polyglot the world has ever seen: he spoke 51 languages, plus 3 of his own, fluently. The Hobbits’ names come from Old English! Have a look. X
@glishev5 жыл бұрын
Théoden of Rohan: "Did you just call me an Elf?"
@philipclayberg49284 жыл бұрын
Mellon. "Speak 'friend' and enter" on the West Gate of Moria.
@timmeyer45955 жыл бұрын
We need to bring all these old words back to life...
@tbarrelier7 жыл бұрын
This is an exceptional reading. I can't see how it could have been done any better! Thank you!
@karolus1456 жыл бұрын
Finally a KZbinr who doesn’t lip smack all over a microphone while trying to speak an old Germanic language
@dodokodokodok11185 жыл бұрын
Somebody : So what words do you understand? Me : And
@fabricioferreira26874 жыл бұрын
I'd absolutely love to hear all of the text of Beowulf like this. The voice AND the glossed original,
@Ch3lbell5 жыл бұрын
Really cool and interesting to hear. At first I couldn’t understand it but strangely after listening to it for a couple minutes my brain started to understand most of what they were saying.
@RobertaMariaAtti4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Truly a beautiful language and spoken with such an expressive voice .... thank you!
@MarkGrago7 жыл бұрын
This upload is extraordinary! Thank you for taking the time to make this!
@michaelmuller68905 жыл бұрын
Very sensitive and rhytmic reading. I am very impressed and would know from who to learn...
@davidmetting51385 жыл бұрын
Loved it! Thanks for doing this. As a recent student of Old English (self taught, using Peter Baker's text) I truly enjoyed hearing this and following along. Great video.
@TheMaxPower823 жыл бұрын
This is amazingly beautiful. The Germanic root is so clear.
@LRJS17948 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this I'm learning Anglo-Saxon, this helped a lot and introduced me to some words that I have not heard before, again thank you!!
@john12123333333333337 жыл бұрын
Oh the days of glory when that island jewel of angels heeded true religion. In the land of angels, in the time of it's youth, faithful to the Petrine line, glory abounded in England in that age.
@amyliou50736 жыл бұрын
This sounds beautiful, I don't know if it's the narrator or the language itself but I would love to learn it and speak it with somebody!
@joshtyra6 жыл бұрын
I would love to speak it with somebody, too!
@amyliou50736 жыл бұрын
We should learn it together and form a little group that speaks it, although that would take lots of work to learn since nobody speaks it anymore :)
@mujtabaal-bushari67332 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this. The pronunciation is much better than a lot of others in KZbin
@AlisSpark6 жыл бұрын
this kind of looks like old swedish or middle-high german. amazing
@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess5 жыл бұрын
Try low German. Old English literally is low German. English people are germans
@cristinam65754 жыл бұрын
I didn't know this channel... now I'm desperately in love with it 😍💙
@DatGloriaVires5 жыл бұрын
It is our indigenous language, free from colonial mindset and still to this day in my opinion the closest link we have to our proto-Germanic paganism. I think it is worth a revival ten times over.
@Sawrattan4 жыл бұрын
But the video is about Christmas?
@DatGloriaVires2 жыл бұрын
@@Sawrattan aaaand what was Christmas before it was hi-jacked by Christianity? :P
@road-eo69112 жыл бұрын
@@DatGloriaVires It was Christmas? Always had been Christmas.
@DatGloriaVires2 жыл бұрын
@@road-eo6911 Not so. It was Yule-tide, a pagan celebration that sprang forth from medieval to bronze age Europe. Each reindeer of Santa's (Ođinn's) sleigh represents one of 8 legs of Sleipnir, his mystical horse. Christmas Eve is also the night of the Wild Hunt. Any cursory knowledge if history would reveal the simple knowledge that our modern day Christmas has pagan roots and was superceded by images of the Christ god. But alas it's not my responsibility to bring anyone out of ignorance. Remain there if it works for you mate.
@Akrafena2 жыл бұрын
@@DatGloriaVires sol invictus
@jacobgoering60683 жыл бұрын
I find ancient and medieval languages especially challenging simply due to the lack of a speech community amongst which to absorb the target language. I’ve managed to reach a decent level in Mandarin not due to any talent for languages, but rather because of an immersive environment. For some reason I’m sitting in Beijing teaching myself Anglo-Saxon (古英语)! Wonderful video!
@cartercollier9905 жыл бұрын
i'm glad that this appeared on my Recommendations
@juako8118 жыл бұрын
Please make more of these videos! Very well done!
@riqqarddopv79186 жыл бұрын
sounds beautiful
@sheilas12837 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and very beautiful. Thank you!
@LittleImpaler8 жыл бұрын
Make more, please!
@friedpickle8332 Жыл бұрын
Excellent reading! I love how you captured the delicate fluidity of Old English without resorting to an overly affected faux-Scandanavian or even an Italian accent like I've heard some people do.
@joshtyra Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for this lovely and kind comment!
@mimireuser53837 жыл бұрын
why do we not speak like this anymore.... as a book lover and a language lover this makes me sad. Such a beautiful language that has almost died...
@joshtyra7 жыл бұрын
I often feel regret over dead or dying languages; or at least a longing to travel back in time and hear what they really sounded like. But I take solace in the fact that although there are no more native speakers, we can still enjoy these languages through written texts, and we can creatively reconstruct them and make them live again. There is no doubt in my mind that a 10th century person could understand this recording, even if I didn't get every detail right. It might sound a little strange to them, but I believe it would be intelligible. It's sort of like a dinosaur skeleton with muscles and skin reconstructed according to the best available educated guesses.
@wallolo7 жыл бұрын
By being mixed with french and greek language. I wonder how greek could been though.
@fizmath40706 жыл бұрын
blame the French Norman invaders
@hamarbiljungskile89535 жыл бұрын
For the same reason people 900 years from now won't speak like us. What kind of question is that? Would you prefer a language stays rigid and stagnant?
@TomRNZ5 жыл бұрын
There's nothing sad about it. All languages evolve over time. If they didn't, inhabitants of Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, and Romania would all be speaking Latin. The language in this video is not a dead language. We're speaking it now. It has just evolved over a thousand years or so to arrive at this point. In fact, if language didn't evolve, most people in Europe and India would be speaking Proto-Indo-European. Or perhaps we'd all be grunting and making ape-like sounds. I think it's a testament to the strength and resilience of the English language that even after many invasions by different peoples, a ruling class trying to keep the language down, and a plague that wiped out a huge percentage of the population, it still managed to survive and go from the language used by a few tribes on a tiny island off the European mainland to a language spoken internationally.
@CatsArtist5 жыл бұрын
This is so beautiful to listen to. And it is actually very exciting that I could understand every three words or so.
@jackl.17594 жыл бұрын
I found it interesting how aspects of Old English's word order are exactly the same as they are in modern English.
@rohancrafford80503 жыл бұрын
Wunderbar ist es, das zu hoeren und gleichzeitig in der Luther Bibel mitzulesen. Man merkt viele Stellen, die gleich oder fast gleich sind. Trotz dem, versteht man nicht alles, trotz Verstaendnis der Englischen Sprache von Heute. Vielen Dank.
@joshtyra3 жыл бұрын
Danke für deinen Kommentar! Ich liebe es, von Sprechern germanischer Sprachen über die Ähnlichkeiten zwischen ihrer Sprache und dem Altenglischen zu hören.
@rohancrafford80503 жыл бұрын
@@joshtyraVielen Dank. Ich freue mich, dein Video entdeckt zu haben. Ich bin mit Afrikaans als Muttersprache aufgewachsen, kann deswegen Niederlaendisch lesen und verstehen, habe natuerlich Englisch gelernt und Deutsch. Ich glaube, wir vergessen die Geschichte, die von unseren germanische Sprachen geteilt wird, ganz zu oft. Weil ich jetzt mit Middle English der Schriften vonChaucer beschaeftigt bin, habe ich auch eine Interesse in Altenglisch entwickelt. Ihr Video fand ich als ich nach Texten forschte, die auf Altenglisch geschrieben sind. Jetzt ist meine Interesse bestimmt erweckt worden, die Sprache kennenzulernen. Leider kann ich, wie ich jetzt sehe, gut tippen mit dem Handy.
@MDE19923 жыл бұрын
I understood 60 percent of it as a Dutchman
@eriklindhurst57934 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful. Thank you very much for making it available. I really enjoyed that.
@brunopinkhof6305 жыл бұрын
Ok, I am Flemish and it is very similar to my language that came from the Franks(West-Germanic tribes who came from the North and North-East for the rich farming lands in the North of Belgium and mixed with the Belgian Celts). The Franks, Saxons and North sea West-Germanic tribes are family tribes. Flemish is old Frankonish and didn't change much. It is a very very old languages. The verbs are extremily similar to Flemish and Dutch(Frisian). Dagas is dagen(days), waes geworden is in Flemish: was geworden etc.... I gives me a home feeling. Ge is not pronounced as ye but realy as a Flemish G. Not a Dutch one.
@JohnJones-ct9pr5 жыл бұрын
So beautiful !!!. Thank you. My fore fathres spoke that language ----- Awesome !!!!
@mashruralam57954 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Reminds me of Rohan in Lord of the Rings.
@jeremiahembs53433 жыл бұрын
Very helpful. God's word created and preserved English.
@the_linguist_ll2 жыл бұрын
No.
@stevebradley7045 жыл бұрын
I'm from Northumberland (Northern most county in England). We still use a few of these words and the tonality is very similar.
@BrianandSnoopy12 жыл бұрын
I think when Charlie Brown asked Linus if he knew what Christmas is all about that he should have gone on stage and did it this way. it would have made the special even more memorable. :)
@user38zJdl45Zzz7 жыл бұрын
It sounds likea mix of german and english.Also you read it very well good job!
@joshtyra7 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly.
@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess5 жыл бұрын
English IS German. It's a dialect of low German
@Wewwers5 жыл бұрын
KOT
@iain37134 жыл бұрын
My beautiful and amazing Princess no
@mpgnz734 жыл бұрын
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess No it's not! For that to happen English would have to had to exist together with Low German on the continent! English and Low German do have a common ancestor language however - Ingaevonic (North Sea German). English predates German (High) by some 300 years.
@SantaFe194845 жыл бұрын
This would sound normal to us if King Harold had won the battle of Hastings and driven William of Normandy into the channel. I'm glad to serve Jesus, who is king forever!
@leoisforevercool4 жыл бұрын
Imagine getting into a time machine and having to communicate with people who speak this
@LordUhtred17 жыл бұрын
This is superb! Wonderful scripture and sublime rendition of the Old English.
@atouloupas7 жыл бұрын
English is such an amazing language! I really wished that its Germanic origins weren't overshadowed by the foreign influence... I also have a question: do students in England learn Old English, like we learn Ancient Greek in Greece?
@reesebear27 жыл бұрын
Απόστολος Τουλούπας No. At least not here in America. it is an optional language can study at some universities though.
@Longlius7 жыл бұрын
No. In English-speaking countries, Old English is a thing you study if you take on English as a course of study at the university level, and even then it's a specialized subject. OE doesn't have the same 'usefulness' that Ancient Greek does and there's not as much literature or important material written in it. OE texts are mostly just Beowulf, Early Bible Translations, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles detailing the history of England from ~500 AD to the Norman conquest.
@derpysheep58726 жыл бұрын
Being in another English speaking country, I haven’t started learning old English yet
@prewartomatoes6 жыл бұрын
No
@mainintersection5 жыл бұрын
No, we don’t learn old English in school. The oldest we study would be Shakespeare unless you choose to study old English at university