Beowulf Prologue said in Old English

This is the beginning of Beowulf in Old English said by me

Category:

Music

Tags:

• beowulf
• prologue
• epic
• poetry
• poem
• old
• english
• anglo
• saxon
• anglosaxon
• anglo-saxon

[cilibinarii]

There are no rolling R's in Old English as far as I and a grammar book on Old English I've read know. Other than that, quite nice work :)

[eisernteufel]

They aren't sure; you read book, I looked at different online sources it might have been rolled or flipped my opinion is that it was rolled like Scandinavian languages so i rolled it.

[cilibinarii]

@eisernteufel according to my book ("Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer, great book, look it up) || "r initially was probably trilled, as in Scots: "raed", "ridan". Finally and before a consonant it was probably made with the tip of the tongue curved back, as in southwestern dialects of Mn. E (modern english) and in American: "ar", "eard", "feorh" etc. || And Beowulf is from a quite late age so I suppose it's not a rolling R.

[eisernteufel]

@cilibinarii (i'm not trying to be like you wrong fuck you or anything) but beowulf was a story probably well before it was written down...

[Bluehawk2008]

Every language is better with trilled R's. No exceptions.

[Goethe4932]

I'm at Uni studying the development of the english language and the /r/ phoneme is pronounced with a trill. The clip sounds great but no idea how accurate it is? I think it's all a lot of what knows what and all that. Nice one. Cheers Syril.

[Telos41]

I have no idea what the fuck you're saying but it sounds awesome

[Musterfrau27]

very beautiful and amazing, thank you! schade, dass das heutige englisch nicht so ist, obwohl ich das heutige auch schön finde. ^^

[Soervin]

Sounds like old Scandinavian with some latin sounding words once in a while.

[ATCWARE]

@eisernteufel Really enjoyed this. I speak English and German, and so I can understand bits of it with modern cognates (plus what I know of OE). How does one learn to speak Old English anyway? Btw, your mic would sound better if you rubberband some cotton balls over it and hold it to the side of your mouth. ;-)

And about the rolling R's. I think you're both partially right. I think the R's rolled ever so *slightly* in some words. Make it more subtle, and I think you'll nail it. :)

[ojideagu]

@violatormelms It shares some Old Norse and Scandinavian words. Although nobody knows if the R's are rolled.

[ojideagu]

@FogiTofu Old English shares some words and has some influences with Scandinavian languages. Although it is mostly related to German.

[thatdude10000000]

Sounds kinda like Swedish? Though I haven't heard much Swedish besides Finntroll.

[violatormelms]

Sounds Icelandic to me.

[Grundalizer]

so fucking gay sounding