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Nolan
20th February 2010, 22:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y13cES7MMd8&feature=rec-fresh+div-f-5-HM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl-OZ3breE&feature=related

Now I want to study Aeld Englisc. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJGTYkEKLI&feature=fvw

Lacrimi de Chiciură
21st February 2010, 10:47
wow that Lord's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon thing was trippy as fuck.

JazzRemington
21st February 2010, 20:05
Pff, Old English. Nuts to your 10+ forms of the definite and indefinite articles. It's Middle English for me, any day.

NecroCommie
21st February 2010, 23:21
Earth was "swa swa"?! :confused:

ps. You did know that Tolkiens quenya was basically this mixed with finnish, didn't ya?

Nolan
21st February 2010, 23:25
No in this case it's eoršan.

Nolan
21st February 2010, 23:27
This is neat:

http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/oeindex.html

as is this:

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html

Browsing Wikipedia in other languages is always fun:

http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde

Nolan
21st February 2010, 23:34
Earth was "swa swa"?! :confused:

ps. You did know that Tolkiens quenya was basically this mixed with finnish, didn't ya?

Quenya was influenced by Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Greek, and Latin. Its vocabulary is completely original though, except for a few things. For example, arda, which means earth, has germanic roots.

NecroCommie
22nd February 2010, 00:18
You nerdy nerd! I just bothered to learn the basics but you're a god-damn expert! :p

Nolan
22nd February 2010, 00:20
anglosaxon r white ppl :(

lolwut

DecDoom
22nd February 2010, 15:52
I just got that Old-English Beowulf recitation on DVD the other day. I haven't watched it yet though.

Honggweilo
26th February 2010, 18:39
Old Dutch > Old English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebban_olla_vogala

Red Saxon
26th February 2010, 21:23
Old English sounds more like Irish Gaelic when he speaks it :P

In my linguistics class, we had a whole chapter on old germanic languages that I simply adored.