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:
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If you are only interested in the language and don't want the music and video, you can download this audio file:
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  Education

[EasyMeditation]

Featuring Darth Vader

[LauraTriggxxx]

It was criminal how the British elites tried to wipe out the Welsh, Scottish and Irish languages. Language is such an important part of anyone's identity, and by repressing them, they were trying to replace that identity with some generic and artificial Britishness. The same thing is happening these days with English regional dialects.

[LauraTriggxxx]

I wonder why modern day English people take so much pride in the deeds of the post 1066 usurpers? Shouldn't we all be cheering for William Wallace in that Braveheart movie, rather than endlessly complaining about Mel Gibson's supposed Anglophobia?

It's not like Édouard Plantagenêt, Henry Tudur or our very own Frau Battenburg are worth defending, is it?

[LauraTriggxxx]

You consider people like Richard de Clare, Édouard longues jambes Plantagenêt and Willem van Oranje - along with all their Norman and Breton lackeys - to be English?

As for blending Celtic culture with English culture, I don't recall anything in the history books about invaders named Wulfric or Hilde forcing their Old English Metre and beliefs about wyrd onto the unsuspecting Celts.

Norman & Breton =/= English

Evil Scottish landowners, clan chiefs & aristocrats =/= English

British =/= English

[excavtrooper]

Maybe a thousand years late, but the walls are coming down on religion, for the first time in the last two milennia, we can no stand up and question that book and you know what, they don't have the proof, evidence or answers. They believe, whilst science ploughs on!.

[metalsonicdoll]

Actually, that was the point. The English were trying to blend the Celtic cultures with their own to prevent rebellions, revolutions, and other typical problems with conquered lands. The same reason the Norman invaders made everyone speak Norman French instead of Old English.

[broadband01]

germanic

[Nathan S]

ummmm ok

[Robbie Verhagen]

Utterly chilling.

[Ruben Ramalho]

Well he "made" the followers as well

[DJVM95]

Saving languages and dialects is great, but I think it's difficult in modern times. People would choose to use more common languages over languages spoken in small communties.

[Djpoo225]

"GET TO THE CHOPPAAAA!!!"