Byrhtnoð’s Lament: An Old English Pantoum

A video of a pantoum-type poem I wrote for English class (Thanksgiving themed). The video in the background was taken from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0TR4I0h28. The Anglo-Saxon harp in the background is Benjamin Bagby from his performance of Bēowulf. The voice is me.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Anglo-Saxon
• English
• Harp
• Old
• Pantoum
• Poetry
• Thanksgiving

[austpom333]

Very good well spoken and clear, and you wrote it your self, this is the first modern day old english i have heard, champion

[jonmsterling]

Thanks for your compliments! Glad you liked it.

[MaBu888]

Feower can be pronounced clearer, but very well done. Sounds very much like the later period of Old English.

[jonmsterling]

Thanks!

[psilotum10000]

Nicely done. Traditional Malayan verse combined with old English. To imagine the distances of time and place that could bring these two together is awe inspiring.

[jonmsterling]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[pmattoon]

I see the word dead lives on..how ironic

[theburling]

Wait, this is an original? I don't speak Anglisc (?) but the phonemes flow together very well. That's some truly musical insight you got there, playing with a dead language like that. A hundred hundred kudos to you, sir.

[MaBu888]

For hwy should be with a good o and y sound and good w. Mih byth thaet an thoht.

[RavenofDenmark]

Good to see some good people puplic things in old english =)

[BushmenKing]

So essentially there's no "Old English pantoum", since Europeans only encounter Malays during the age of colonization ; )

[BushmenKing]

@redcoatsrule

Pantoum was an English/French adaptation of pantun, a Malay song form.