• Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “You are before in my king.”

    Þæt sceal wesan: “þū stenst beforan þām cyninge”.

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        3 months ago

        There’s a guy on YouTube who, among other things, makes language intelligibility videos. Here’s the one he did on how well German speakers can understand Old English

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        3 months ago

        So how much old English from Beowulf do you “get” when it is pronounced. Basically the English had forgotten how to read Old English and it was a Danish/Icelandic linguist who helped figure out the language again.