The Lords Prayer in Old English

[englisc449]

just beautiful

[1kewldude2]

@englisc449 Thank you Sir !

[MrSKINFLICK]

Some examples: Fire= Feuer (pronounced almost identically), "rice" here in this Lord´s Prayer = Reich - has also something to do with rich = reich - in the Cologne+North German dialects they still say risch for reich - which is pretty identical -also pronounced - with the modern English rich.Especially if you listen to modern - still spoken - German dialects (Rhinish dialect or North German dialects) you can hear +read the gleaming of many words almost identically spoken like modern English....

[RebelStangII]

The Cross, is what Jesus Christ, was Crucified on. It's The Christian Symbol.

Raven Banner is ,

Odin's / Woton's Banner / symbol

Chief god of Norse / Germanic Tribes.

[MigDanskeren]

Yeah, but a couple of thousand years apart. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are much closer linked to the Icelanders but the language rhythms are quite different.

[harry1066fun]

Outstanding Kewl

mp72

[Pantherandpolitics]

Absolutely brilliant Kewl. We should learn this and demand Anglo-Saxon courts immediately.

BNP4ME

[AdmiralStickney]

@Pantherandpolitics Screw Islam

[conchubhar1]

the english language is your heritage.... old english developed and eventualy became modern english

[TheWidukind]

Thanks for posting, this is top notch.

[gb5uq]

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum si þin nama gehalgod tobecume þin rice gewurþe þin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofonum urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us to dæg and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge ac alys us of yfele .............soþlice.

[fiynsais]

Thanks for sharing 10*********

[bodicatudor]

nice!!!!!!!

[beowulfsword08]

Thanks for sharing 1kd2 if you look in my Asatru and dark age lists you'll find some interesting stuff!

[isamtator]

Wow what a big differance. Why did they, refine it and change it so much?

It sounds so unreconisable. I guees modern English would sound foreign to them, as this does to me. I have never heard the spoken word of old English. Nothing like what we use today. Why would they forge it. Was it to crude?

[beowulfsword08]

A-S has not been forgotten but it has mutated into Modern English. About 70% of the words we use are still A-S, the rest is a mish-mash of French, Latin and Greek. The best thing to do is look at the dialects of English spoken here in the UK. Northumbrian, Lowland Scots and Norfolk dialects are the nearest thing to A-S as you'll get.

[MigDanskeren]

It sounds a lot like Icelandic.

[NorthernerMatty123]

@isamtator Perhaps if there was translation in modern English it would not sound quite so different.

[RattytheSecond]

@isamtator You've asked some excellent & interesting questions. English is a Germanic language. As spoken now it's evolved from its ancient form over a period of more than a thousand years. Compare this ancient English with Old English of Chaucer’s time in the fourteenth century & it sounds very different again. By the seventeenth century English was spoken in the "Shakespearian" way. No deliberate changes were ever made. A thousand years from now it will sound as different as this does to us.

[RattytheSecond]

@RattytheSecond One correction to what I've written. I called the English spoken during Chaucer's time Old English; it was actually Middle English. Sorry about that!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@RattytheSecond:The melting of Saxon+Anglic idioms seems already very progressed here.But the two Germanic dialects had obviously a lot of trouble melting together during 5 centuries.Every modern German -especially from the North German parts -can still read(not so much hear)the surprising resemblance of many words here to German words...on the other hand many English words(40-60%)are still pretty similar to modern German words,the English don´t know it because we pronounce them so differently!

[chaosbringer127]

@isamtator

the structure and conjugations and the extremely basic pronouns/words are for the most part not changed much, but the vocabulary was so heavily supplemented by latin that most of the old english words were just slowly phased out

[hobbler365]

@isamtator Language doesn't change because it is flawed or as a conscious decision, it changes because small differences in pronunciation or word choice eventually become exaggerated. The word 'true', for example, was pronounced with a hard 't' sound (as with other words that begin with 'tr') that eventually morphed to sound almost like 'ch'. There are a lot of people who now pronounce 'true' as something more like 'chroo'.

[Spannerman131]

thanks for that mate,to much of our history has been swept away,a revival must be on the agenda........have a great Christmas,FOREVER ENGLISH

[rebelstang]

Thank You! i Sent it to a couple of Friends.

I wondered how Anglo/Saxon, Sounded?

Definitly more German, Which i thought it would.

DEO VINDICE!

[beowulfsword08]

The nearest modern equivelent is Frisian which is still spoken in the Netherlands.

[RebelStangII]

Cool Thanks! I didn't know.

Have a Good One!

[beowulfsword08]

Thunors blessings Reb and have a good Yule!

[RebelStangII]

As Well to You My Friend!

May The Cross & Raven Banner ,

Fly Together, In The Defense of our Homes!

And May Meljourn Smash those that would do us harm!

DEO VINDICE!

[RebelStangII]

DEO VINDICE!

[rebelstang]

Praise The LORD

and Pass The Ammunition!

+ IN HOC SINC +