Anglo saxon/old English Deor

This is my version of the anglosaxon story deor. He was a retired writer who worked for a lord, he no longer worked for the lord when he wrote Deor . He writes of past situations where people have had hard times in there life and those hard times went or ofereode ( over ) with the passing of time. I found the text for this reading at kami.demon.com.au.

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[MaBu888]

That is to say, a modern English pronunciation gives a previously unexplored effect. Sounds like a modern Norse man reciting old Norse. Some similar sounds like the inrhotic R.

[austpom333]

@MaBu888 People don't have the time to spend years studying an old language, when the first years of study is not much fun. Tweaking the spelling or words a bit so as a modern speaker of English Dutch or German can pick up on a few words seems to me to be the way to go. Remembering that there was no set spelling rules when this literature was written

[ALBIONTYKE]

It known that Cumbraic was spoken over northern England, which is similar to Welsh & was last spoken in Cumbria as late as the 12th century. This language in the video is the oldest type of English spoken & related to Frisian. Listen for the Dutch tones. The Germanic invaders to this island dominated the areas they settled in and as with most dominant cultures they subjugated the tribes to speaking a Germanic language. Just as the English language was later forced on to the Irish, Scots & Welsh

[austpom333]

@ALBIONTYKE Yep shame how the scots dont speak scotish any more, the schots are great people.

[Hopsklamotte]

In the year 100? That must be wrong. Old English did not exist until the Angles and Saxons came to Britain around 400/500 AD.

[austpom333]

@Hopsklamotte Yep i'll look into that, Maby the anglos adopted a type of prototype welsh language ( from the people who remained before the anglos arived ) or it is a translation into anglo. I think it is very old literature though, i an absolutely no expert, it is only my opinion.

[gregluland]

I think the speaker is an Aussie, I detect a bit of Cobber in that accent, strewth

[74stigma]

@austpom333 i agree, it does sound similiar to welsh

[MarkLeavenworth]

I am looking to connect my roots with my present causes in this language.

[caliboyjason]

This was great. The publication date is wrong though, as previously stated. The first document in OE is Cædmon's Hymn, written sometime between 650-680, and so this had to come sometime after