Agincourt Carol - Maddy Prior and June Tabor

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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2008

Early 15th century English song recalling the battle of Agincourt in 1415.

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  • And one last: if England, with barely two million inhabitants, had, in the end, won the 100 years War, how would the language have survived, in a United Kingdom of 12 million people, of which the vast majority spoke French and the language of the elite? I think English would today be spoken as a dialect in Yorkshire and Lancashire

  • @proulxmontpellier Ahh, the famous what if! Must admit I had never thought of it that way but you may well be right. However just think what else might have/have not happened. England might still be catholic, America might have been Spanish. Our rivalry has led to the world being the way it is today. What would it be like without that rivalry?

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  • What a beatiful harmony. Love Maddy Prior's voice.

  • God, there are some seriously nasty people here. Lovely song, beautifully performed.

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  • "Cry God, King Harry, England and St George"!

  • One of the best songs I've ever heard. Really up there.

  • @proulxmontpellier Quite astute. We few, we happy few, would this dying dialect speak. 

  • gods this is nice...what happpened to out species?

  • Anyone else think the harmony creates an effect that sounds like a hurdy gurdy?

  • @TheJonnymorris

    What the French Elite have most to learn is to curb their arrogance. Foreigners think that the French are arrogant, but this is because the French Elite are utterly arrogant with their own people. As soon as someone displays a trace of provincial accent, that person is immediately scorned.

    As for Yorkshire, I am truly admirative that this is one of the last regions where the second person singular is still used.

  • @proulxmontpellier What's English my friend? It was mixed with latin, saxon, danish...then french. In Yorkshire we speak a language that reflects our Viking past. the grammar, syntax and vocabulary. You french have much to learn.Remember AGINCOURT! x

  • "England one France lost." Sad.

  • @LestatxLouis1 Haha correct. Python is brilliant.

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