The Story of English episode 2 - The Mother Tongue - Part 5 / 7

[ANARCHYGOD2012]

@creamyfilling102 lol. Well they were of norse heritage anyway people forget there probably wasnt a national modern feeling of french,spanish,english,italian as today it was still all kingdoms competing for power on same lands

[jopeteus]

7:14

Just comoare old english to modern german

Der König

Des Jönigs

Dem König

[pingguo2]

I'd love to see a performance of Man Kind.

[purplepoppy07]

I'm in high school and I'm so glad my AP Lang teacher made me watch this! This is so thought-provoking and amazing.

[creamyfilling102]

this has to be the only time in history the french won a fight against anyone.

[hxcteenagekicks]

@creamyfilling102 Lol... or that guy ya know...the one that nearly conquered the entirety of europe... whats his name... oh yeah Napoleon ¬___¬

[zeinbrug]

@creamyfilling102 No,germanic latin is a large portion of the scandivian,germanic and pursian or west slavic-anglo saxon ,lothina and gual , northen france was part the viking and german kindoms that invaded england.Meaning norman french hade some traces of flemish,frisan and french or southbelgian deltics of old dutch,but the normans invaded those regions of france beacuse they wrentfrench ordidnt belong to france.So in a sence theywhere useing french but trying to revive some parts of english.

[hjbender]

Incredibly fascinating documentary. Does anyone know the name of the chant sung at 0:58? It's beautiful.

[al1936ful]

You'd think this would have been issued on DVD by now. It hasn't.

[bizarewigga]

the noob are noob

[FenceThis]

Oure fadir þat art in heuenes hallowid be þi name ! Doesn´t sound stranger from a danish point of view than f ex Faroeish or Icelandic ; it´s understandable.

[retread01]

The perfect excuse for not learning French! I was too busy.

[frantic1971]

"Edward III used [Old] English only for swearing". LOL

[TinyArts]

i can understand every word from 0:17-0.32 and i'm from Scandinavia.

[FenceThis]

@TinyArts Same here ; -)

[jposh707]

Who is the host? He looks and sounds so familiar!

[al1936ful]

@jposh707 It's Robert MacNeil, who used to be one of the hosts on the PBS "News Hour".

[readabook1381]

"Edward the Third could only use English for swearing." And the narrator says it in such an unimportant tone. That's the best use for English out there! ;-)

[isboff]

shelick hasta ahora he comprendido alga asi como la mitad

[cabalofdemons]

I saw some of this as well back in Spring 2005 in my English lit. class. I was always fascinated how Old English evolved into Middle English between 1066-1170.

[eringobragh16]

After 3000 views, you'd assume there'd be more than 2 comments. I'll say this much: I love this series. I first saw it in my "History of English" class in University and I loved it. Such a good series!

[plasticwrapcharlie]

@eringobragh16 my face when "University"

[okletsskate]

haha im the thousandth view!