The Lords Prayer in Old English from the 11th century

I am reading The Lords Prayer in Old English from the 11th century. In standardised West Saxon literary dialect of Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon).
Location of filming is Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.
Filming and editing by Sondre Danielsen
Music by Steve Roach

Feel free to use it in blogs or whatever you may find it useful. If you want better audio and video quality, download this file:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0oZwqql0RWLZGFmMTYxYjAtNzA0Yy00YTdkLWJjOGUt...

If you are only interested in the language and don't want the music and video, you can download this audio file:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0oZwqql0RWLMDA0NGUxYzItYjljNC00ZjJlLTkzNjUt...

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Education

Tags:

• Old
• English
• sample
• prayer
• voice
• Beowulf
• language
• Anglo
• Saxon
• edinburgh

[SonsoftheSword]

This is one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of recital I have heard in any language.

[sodada]

@SonsoftheSword

Thanks!

Regards from

Sondre

[sodada]

Infinite Shore on the album The Magnificent Void. I recommend you to buy his albums, amazing stuff.

[sodada]

@Imnothecrazyone Thanks, I have just pitched the voice down a bit. The reader is myself. There has been some critics of me reading it wrong. And in retrospect I understand that some of the pronunciation is wrong according to how the experts believe Old English was spoken at that time. But we have to remember that the way we speak our language in real life often differs from the "written" word. And over time that is how we change the language.

[Enquiringmind777]

Beautiful we as an English people should learn our language. It truly is a beautiful language. Let's reclaim our heritage. Somebody somewhere set the flame alight and let us be free. Solije.

[TheLastSliceOfPie]

Swa Swa

[Orvandel]

Look at Christ I by Cynewolf.

[bingzaniGercel]

This atmosphere reminds me back in that long past time in year 1000, but then there were also lot of vikings, danes and norvegians there i think.

[radajan]

Séo gebeod wæs ærgód! Ic þancie þe.

[stealth1692]

@SonsoftheSword the celts existed look up boudicca

[FallingDownStory]

Why does this sound so sacary? This is a prayer, it should sound friendly and lightly and hopeful.

[frizzbombshki15]

I wish we still spoke English like this!

[t1t296]

@DefeatedElitist, he's right, maybe not 80% but a good majority of our blood is Anglo-Saxon, jute, Frisian etc. Another large part of our blood is from Scandinavia.

[bobbobato]

@SonsoftheSword Probably has to do with the haunting background music :)

[spackhollogay]

@DefeatedElitist They've done studies, most English people are mostly descended from the Anglo-Saxons.

[spackhollogay]

@SonsoftheSword Nah, the Celts were here before us but our ancestors basically wiped them out, genetically your average white Englishman is about 80% Anglo-Saxon.