Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon tongue) Bardcore/Medieval style
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Soooo a lot you asked for this, I am super stoked to have actually finished it too XD, Ok So I wanted to make this my 10k sub special but by the time I finished making this I'm getting close to 20k, really wanted to thank all of you for the love and support guys, this is me thanking ya'll in advance for the 20k, it has been so unreal.
As always, Big thanks to @Cornelius Link for creating this masterpiece of an instrumental :
• Foster The People - Pu...
Also, a big shout out to AB (@ABAlphaBeta) who helped me with the translations and phonetic training with the making of this video, If ya'll like good and informative historical content please go and check out his channel, It's quite amazing :
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For anyone interested, here are the lyrics :)
Hroþa hæfþ cwice hand
Lóciende ymbe rúm, nile tellan þé his ræd
Hé hæfþ smocapípan fulne, hómde út múþe, biþ án wilde cniht
Hé fand Írisc-worht bogan
On hises fæder ciste diernan on arce þinga,
Ic ne gíet cnáwe hwæt
hé is cumende for þé, hé is cumende for þé ġéa
Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen fram minum earhum
Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen, cwicra þon mín boga
Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen fram minum earhum
Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen, cwicra þonne mín boga
Ætta wyrcþ lange dæġe
Hé is cumende hám late, hé is cumende hám late
And hé is bringende mé wundor-ġife
For þenung is on cyċenan baþod on íse
Ic béo wæht for lange hwíle
Ġéa sliht mínes handa biþ nú án cwic-plyced streng
Handliġe mid mínre pípan
And secge þín hǽr is on fýre, þú móst hafian losod þín witt, ġéa
#pumpedupkicks #medieval #bardcore #oldenglish #anglosaxons
In year 3066, people won't have to remake music to imagine how it would have sounded like. They'd have a millennium of songs stored on the Internet.
And the worst part is that in year 5066 this comment will be seen as old as we see the old Egyptian culture.
The concept of time is certainly shocking and it gives me goosebumps.
I hope the youtube archive survives a long time. Eventually, in a few thousand years, people will maybe even find these comments again.
No reason to assume 'the internet' will do a good job of preserving anything in the long run
>thinking anything digital will survive the next bolide event or the Yellowstone Super-Caldera cooking-off.
The internet will be both a blessing and a nightmare for historians. I can't think how they'll be able to sort through all that information
@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking To illustrate just how poor the internet is as a permanent archive, try to find more than a handful of websites you can still browse in their 1998 form. Good luck
“We live in a monarchy.”
- The Jester
A *Norman* foreign monarchy! Saxons will rise in Rebellion once more!!!
I got that reference
I'm dead😂
“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“It’s the town guard. Your heir, he contracted the Black Death. He’s dead.”
Bruh
Ælfred: hand me the aux cord
Me: you better not play trash
Ælfred:
Ælfred: Gifu mec þine auxcordne.
Mec: Ne þu whilst ne plegian scitte.
Ælfred:
Æ is pronounced like "eye" so thats Eyelfred
@@theflerffyburr7919 No, It isn't /ai/ It's pronounced like the a in “cat”; /kæt/
@@newguy90 how do you access those extra characters? like the "th" one?
@@TehAlmightyTaco Heisannan, lítinn nýjankømr;
Hefir þú herjaðir með þeir stórir drengirnir fyrr?
Cornelius_link: *makes medieval Pumped Up kicks*
the_miracle_aligner: I recon I can sing those historicaly accurate lyrics that are in the comments of that video
Hildegard Von Bingen: Grabeth mine beer *sings with more accurate lyrics*
the_miracle_aligner: *clears throat in Anglo Saxon* Heald mîn ealu
Watching this meme evolve is amazing. Your comment is the cherry on top of this sundae.
@@martyjean The meme evolved by using the TARDIS.
I unliked this comment just to like it again. Liking this comment once doesn't feel enough.
And for the next pass, we need make the kennings needed to rewrite this in alliterative verse ...
Things are heating up in the Bardcore fandom
“Baldric, thou art a good man: come not hither to-morrow.”
“Bringst you ill tidings?”
(He does not speak.)
😂
“He does not speak”
I got covered in goosebumps
The way Baldric used "You" as if Hroþa was socially above him-
Only the 1000’s kids will remember
Ludwig van Beethoven *duel of the fates starts to play*
1060's
Yooo i rlly fuck with ur music why no more concerts?
hi ludwig! im a big fan !
Omg!! Yes. Good, we‘re vampires and other demons now. Ah!
The dedication is as surreal as casually hearing 11th English in the 21st century.
Amazing.
It's actually much older, more like 6th century.
@@gryphon0468 Yeah Obviously...the roman-latin vibes are distinguished in the language
@@gryphon0468 nah old English didn't change into middle English until the mid 12th century.
@@gryphon0468 so the guys correct
Georgio D.
Actually the interaction with Latin derived Romance languages was what separated this language from middle and new English, this language definitely has a more Germanic sound
i never thought id have to translate english into english.
😂
@Liam Nathan Abla That sure sounds like a "Germanism" to me. The "Vundergeeft" or "Wonder-Gift" lol
@@patrickturner6878 germanism in english?
thats like caling something a slavism in polish
@@poki580 Modern English vocabulary is more Latin than German anymore. Nearly 60%
@Ryan In totality of words? Yes. But in reality the majority of words used by the average person on a daily basis, especially in casual conversation, are mostly Germanic roots. While Norman-French and Latin have greatly influenced English, most of the words which buff up those numbers are neologisms and technical terms.
If you breakdown the etymology of casual speech you hear throughout the day, you’ll find that it’s mostly of Germanic English origin.
I appreciate how it’s ACTUALLY in old english. So many people think Shakespearean English is ‘old English’ and it triggers me every time
Elizabethan English is the start of modern English which is what we speak today. Prior to that it was heavily Scandinavian and German influenced. There are few people alive today that could have held a conversation with a common man back in 1200 AD or so. Even if you spoke Latin or French you would still have a hard time and could only converse with the clergy or the aristocracy. Language is forever changing.
He wasn't posh English either he sounded Cornish
@ZootC ummm, Chaucer is known as the so-called "father of the English language". I know it is a massive stretch, but most of us could read a lot of The Canterbury Tales (with spelling being what it is these days, probably a lot more 😂).
Sorry, I have to stand up for my man Geoff.
Some of you knights are alright. Don't come to Agincourt tomorrow
@Tony Shephard There was one school shooting in the USA (forgot which one), where the killer announced his deed a day before on 4chan, saying "Some of you guys are alright. Don't go to school tomorrow" or something along those lines.
@Tony Shephard The battle of Agincourt was an English victory over France during the Hundred Years War, it postdates the song's supposed settong by about 400 years.
@@HelixFlame33 wasn't that the virginia tech guy
@@HelixFlame33 It was the Umpqua Community College shooting, in Oregon.
Sean Lux wrong
I’d imagine that if this song was somehow played to people from 1,000 years ago, they’d think it was about a peasant uprising and the slaughtering of the royal youth.
Still can be!!
Maybe it is about that. Lol
I imagine a bunch of commoners singing this around a tavern and their lord* steps in.
*edited from (if anyone is curious): overseer (idk what they would have been called) stumbles in.
@@101jir their lord
@@CarlosRios1 thx
Spoiler: King Harold could not outrun William's arrow
Too soon
@@robertmacdonald6527 try in another millennia?
Robert MacDonald its been 900 years
@@j.clementec.m.1558 Maybe when we Saxons get our reparations from our Norman oppressors
"I used to be a king like you. Then I took an arrow to the eye"
Anglo-Saxon soldier here, I remember just before the Battle of Hastings, we started singing this to hype ourselves up for the impending battle tru story
I was there, my Anglo Saxon friend
I can confirm, i was the norman
Yes...I imagine you singing and drinking and being happy
It's a catchy song, for sure. But you guys needed a better baritone section.
How did the battle go? Did you win?
God it’s incredible when you can make out what they’re saying. “All the other child” seems to have stayed the same, this is crazy
Most of it is understandable. For example “He hæfþ smocapipen fulne” = “He haveth smokepipe full” (þ is equal to th)
@colten bennion Eyup. English used to have Ash, thorn, and eth, Ææ, Þþ, and Ðð.
This language is part of English's evolution.
@@ShenDoodles Yes, but remember there was a huge change after the Norman Conquests
The most common words tend to be the slowest to change. Also why they're always full of irregular forms, they'll frequently keep the old regular form when a new regular form develops, which turns the old regular form irregular.
King Godwin upon defeating the Vikings and turning south to face the Normans, 1066.
Tfw your lines break ranks to chase your routing enemy, sealing your fate
Didn't the word "Normans" came from the germanic word for "northmen", which is another name for Vikings?
Aren't Normans just a mixture of Vikings and what later became French people? Would be kind of ironic consider their different reputations.
@@softenbysam Nice taste in profile picture
Johannes Klohse Yes and no. France gave the Vikings Normandy so they'd stop raiding them, but a lot of the culture remained french, most notably the language. (Modern English is a mix of Norman french and Anglo-saxon.) There were slight variations in a lot of things, but it's mostly french with Norse aspects, like a culture creole.
@@thegrandcanyon9861 Ah, good to know. Thanks for the update!
2010: XXIst Century English
2020a: Elizabethan English
2020b: Old English
2021: Proto-Germanic
2022: Indo-European
Proto-Proto-Indo-European
Oh man you beat me to it haha
3020: Sanskrit
waiting for the PIE version.
*caucasian evolution intensifies*
Watching this live was so sick! The bonfires were numerous. Mead was priced scandalously high
Fr that mead was good tho
@@TheSoup87 fr totally worth the shillings
I contracted buboes in ye moshe pitt, but by gads it was weruth ite.
I quite enjoyed watching the local harlots act debaucherous after eating those mushrooms
lmao@@100megatonYT
Everyone is talking about the language but no one mentions that it's a pretty damn good song in this language
Agreed
Way better than the original
@@brianspeck3568 ikr, can't get it out of my head
Greetings K3P00N, Since downloading I have become totally obsessed with this song. And the Old English is beautiful if not amazing. I found a review of the original song and its lyrics -- Foster the People's for the meaning. Can't stop playing Pumped Up Kicks - 1066AD. Help! :-)
@@brianspeck3568 What do you mean "than the original" ? Is this not the orignal?
This should have been played at the Battle of Hastings.
Or the Battle of the Bastards☺
Implying it wasn't...
Unfortunately, Harold Godwin wasn’t able to outrun the bows :(
Yeah, by the Normans
@@theapexsurvivor9538 If they had played this, there's no way the Saxons would have lost.
When the Anglosaxon kid reaches for his scabbard during "Norman French" class.
This guy should keep making videos like this!
Superb 👍
You mean ‘the English kid’
Nyal No, he means the britons.
Robert Switzer: Not everyone from Britain is Anglo-Saxon. That is why I said English.
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Norwegian speakers: "hey, I recognize that language!"
Perhaps exclude English speakers...
hey ... it is just Anglo Saxon.
@@KurtusCobainusActually, a quite a lot of words and sentences are recognisable to me.
@@MoolsDogTwoOfficial I could understand quite a bit too, and it was like I got hit by some intelligiblity, but then it decided to switch back to fake sea German
Tbf i only think the English, german,dutch and norweigan kids would understand anything, this language was before the french got involved with
When the song's so good that you make a second version
of it
Ahhh Jiren, you spoil me XD tyyyy
Lmao 😂
....and the SAME PEOPLE SHOW UP AGAIN! lol
@@the_miracle_aligner DO MORE!!!!!!
When Grendel walks into the king's hall
Is this a goddamn Beowulf reference?
B O O M
@@omegabet3912 Well, the song is in the right language for it.
Well shit why'd everyone bully him anyway 🤣🤣🤣
@@omegabet3912 Yes Yes Yes
Y E S
I appreciate that “all the other” has basically not changed in pronunciation at all 😂
There are Old English epics like Beowulf and then there are the REAL Old English epics. This lands firmly in the latter category.
The modern version talks about a school shooting, but the medieval version seems to be talking about a rebellion against the nobility.
Well, school shootings tend to be carried out by social outcasts and the 'cool' kids they kill would be the social nobility
It’s interesting that the change in time period changes the meaning of the song. Medieval peasants wouldn’t have really mingled with wealthier people nearly as much as we take for granted, so this reads a lot more like the beginning of a peasant rebellion than a school shooting now.
I thought the same exact thing! It works even better because the English class system as we know it today largely evolved from ethnic tension between the indigenous Anglo-Saxon peasantry and their wealthy Norman occupiers in this very period. This kid isn't just trying to take out any old rich people, he's a freedom fighter making a futile heroic stand against the people who invaded his homeland. Which takes on an extra layer of sad, poignant irony considering the later history of the British Isles.
@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 Britain belongs to Welsh bretons
@Custard Drop its true tho
@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 This makes me think of that horrid novel "The Wake" by that crazy progressive Irish author. All the critics called it a literary achievement how he managed to mix Auld Anglish vocabulary with modern grammar to make a readable pseudo-text. Sure it read like old english kinda. But the critics completely ignored the fact that the story was completely satirical of the English and made them all look like ignorant backwoods hill people who were brought enlightenment by William the Bastard's sword. lol
I like that. You've enhanced my experience
As someone who studied some Old English, read notable Old English poems in translation, and am the son of a English major who studied Beowulf in the original Old English, it excites me to see someone translating modern days songs like "Pumped Up Kicks" into Old English and to make it so catchy. For a very old language, Old English is very beautiful to hear spoken and sung out loud. I can see Old English translations of a whole lot of modern songs being played in a Mead Hall in some alternate reality world where English speakers have devolved into living and speaking like the Danes and Saxons from the Anglo-Saxon Period, drinking mead, singing joyfully, and hoping that the grim and greedy Grendel doesn't devour them.
Hwæt!
Better put up some sound proofing to keep grendel away!
It's interesting to see words that almost sound the same but are spelt entirely different, like arrow=earhum.
Kinda, but sometimes such similarity may be deceiving. In Norse for example 'örum' is a pl. dative case of 'ör' = arrow. I wonder if it's the same for Old English because these words look suspiciously similar :-D
@@AntonNidhoggr u didnt surfing unintentionally into english historia or anyway its big ibfluence as langfocus paul said I surf wiktio found out without further ado- there the a in ado is old norse infinitives
@@AntonNidhoggr
The spelling with the front vowel is modern Icelandic, not Old Norse. It comes from the same Germanic root as arrow, but it's not a loanword from English.
ruclips.net/video/St32aLCNMmQ/видео.html
@@AntonNidhoggr in modern Norwegian, the word for arrow is interestingly completely disconnected from this.
I was thinking with the first video "this isn't *really* how they spoke in the Middle Ages"
I figured that sense no one would understand it, there would never be a version made in actual Old English, and I would have to live with the Shakespearean. I have never been happier to be proven wrong! The sheer linguistic craftsmanship that went into this video is astonishing. As someone with a deep appreciation for linguistics, I find this video absolutely inspiring. Thank you so much for making it!
I'd like to hear some of these songs in Middle English as well. The 1300s (around the time of Chaucer) still puts you in the (Late) Medieval period, but it's more intelligible for a Modern English speaker.
@@TheRtRevKaiser I spent approximately thirty hours of research translating a character's dialogue in a single paragraph into true Old English, and wow did I want to die
@@CircusFoxxo Literal translation is a lot of work if you are not completely fluent in both languages/dialects...
In Germany we have "medieval rock bands" for decades :-) like In Extremo, Schandmaul, Saltatio Mortis or Faun. But it is nice to see this bardcore trend here on youtube.
Shakespeare didn’t speak Anglo Saxon.
Theatre kids: Shakespearean English is the best English.
Me, an intellectual: No, you’ve got it wrong it’s Anglo-Saxon.
Middle English is nice i think
@@amadeobordiga8464 smells too much like garlic to me
@@harryflashman3451 fuckin frogs saying what letters we are and aren't allowed to use. bring back þe þorn
@@amadeobordiga8464 Shakespeare didn't speak Middle English, it was early Modern Eng :)
But Middle English is awesome.
I'm half german half italian and have lived in the UK. Hearing this language sung so well just put me in a state of awe. Amazing stuff.
So you have British accent??
@@memesnamaykonteksto4381 I've picked it up fairly quickly to be honest, yeah
@@miles.stilichoyeah then t'welcum t'to count'try
@@miles.stilicho british accent, italian gesturing, and i assume german driving?
what have we created
*When you do a crusade, only to realize that your brother took over your kingdom while you were gone:*
*TIME FOR A SECOND CRUSADE*
1066 was about 30 years before the crusades but i see where you are going
*Angry Richard the Lionheart noises*
The English kings during the crusades would have spoken French
*Of course your brother took over your kingdom because you left all your duties to go off Deus-Vulting 3,000 miles away while using your kingdom as a personal piggy bank to fund your Lawrence of Arabia Adventures, only to get jailed and forcing your mum to crowdfund your release.*
*#KingJohnDidNothingWrong*
As someone who studied the history of English, I gotta say the pronunciation is totally on point.
TYYYY 😁❤
Is the letter C pronounced as CH or K?
It's like Latin : I prefer classical pronunciation over ecclesiastical
I find it interesting how much of it sounds similar enough to modern English to get some idea of what he is saying without the translation. Cild...still sounds like Child, for example.
How are we sure of the pronunciation without audio recordings from back then?
@@Raziberry linguists can reconstruct the original pronunciation by analyzing ancient documents, comparing modern English with other languages, etc. It's not 100% precise, but is a decent guess.
legend has it the Saxons were singing this while the Normans were doing their feigned retreat
Love em or hate em, he's spitting facts.
The fact that the lyrics changed "bullets" to "arrows" make this song great.
As a historian:
Historian: I prefer the medieval version of "Pumped Up Kicks"
*Plays in modern English*
Historian: I said the *medieval* version.
*Plays in Anglo-Saxon*
Historian: Perfection.
A Middle English version could also count as medieval.
seneca983 Yep.
im historian too
Bro same
I love the Early Modern English version of this song as well but it's not "medieval"
When you help the Anglo Saxon kid pick up his books in literacy class and he says “ðrôwian nâ spryttan ûtâðýdan leornungscôl neoðanweard mônandæg”
I can't believe that in Anglo Saxons called School "Learning School", essentially
Ngl being able to get that sentence in our ancient tongue kinda got me diamonds
@@mimisezlol People must've actually learnt in school back then
Translation please
water “dank OC Anglo Saxon roblox maymays that’ll make your gran touch her yamyams “
The French at Agincourt: "let's crush theese English peasants!"
The English:
"Écrasons ces paysans anglais"
The English that was spoken by the English longbowmen and other soldiers at agincourt would have been a bit different to the English in the song, as the Norman invasion had happened before and English was simplified and given lots of French vocabulary
i Preza Nah. At this point, there we’re definitely some speakers who spoke Old English dialects left, but most were probably really old (as old as you can get back then).
@@Odinsday the fact that people didn't get as old back means that older dialects would have died even earlier. It was close to old English sure, but it was still early middle English, which is not what this song is in
Ooh nice
This song came up on my playlist while I was driving my elderly mother to an appointment. She thought that it was Jutlandic with a southern accent 😂
The purity of your vowels and transitions are fit to make operatically trained vocalists weep with jealousy.
too kind sir too kind
The thing Ethelred was unready for was this banger right here
Underrated comment lmao
Taking a history course on Medieval England was 100% worth it solely for understanding all the Ethelred the Unready jokes on the internet.
@@ChronicNewb I only knew his name
@@ChronicNewb i kinda only know about æthelstan and æthelflæd cause i refused to make a presentation on like, princess diana back in tenth grade, could you fill me in from there?
I was unready for this comment lol
My English teacher chose this for a lesson like out of all the songs in the world she choose a song about school shooters
At this point, fuck it
ruclips.net/video/St32aLCNMmQ/видео.html
are you american cus if you are that's just appropriate of her to do that
School archers
As a Dane, I find a lot of it strikingly similar to my mother tongue.
Makes sense, the Anglo-Saxons were germanic, and the danish are germanic.
@@phoenix1026 More than that, even. The Angles and the Jutes, two of the Germanic tribes that eventually formed into the Anglo-Saxons in England, were from what is now Denmark, and Anglo-Saxon would have been partially intelligible to the Danes of the period. The repeated Norse invasions of England were basically cousin vs. cousin.
@@phoenix1026 The Anglo-Saxons are still Germanic
@@mikeswem They were from Jutland which is now part of Denmark, yes, but the Danes had yet to settle there, they were still up in Scania
Genetically and linguistically the Anglo-Saxons were most similar to the Dutch, Frisians especially
“Eall the other cild mid findgum soccum shulon betera rinnen fram minnum earhum”
In modified Danish:
“Alle de andre “kid” med fine sko skulle bedre rende fra mine pile” (I wouldn’t say it like that in Danish, but it can be understood)
when he said "Sċulon betera rinnen, cwicra þonne mín boga." I really felt that.
When that really quiet page shows up to the sword training class with a crossbow:
It's a damn shame that modern english doesn't have this rythm. When he signs
"Cwicra than min boga"
In my head it just comes out as
"Quicker than my bow"
If you listen to it for a while your ear will adjust to it and you'll get it.
It sounds so harmonious I wish we maintained this.
I truly wished we re-establish this dialect it's perfect in its own way.
One more reason to hate the French.
Just kidding. We love the romance vocabulary, even if we can't use it
Yea harmonic
It sounds just like german
Its a language not a dialect. Scots has a lot more similarities to anglo-saxon/anglish
Look into scots if you want a modern language similar to anglish
@@kollinwoolley
This'll be my new morning alarm
No one can stop me.
Good Idea actually, thanks xD gonna do that now too
The quiet kid can
Don't. You'll grow to hate it
i love how old english has some pretty funny words ( by modern english standards) in the sense some words are almost TOO literal.
(Suprise = wundor-gife ≈ wonder gift) for example
Actually it's very Germanic in this way, putting nouns together to form a new noun, instead of importing it from French or Latin 😅
Also the evolution of some such as Soccum-'sohc'-sock which isnt shoe but its still fairly close
I want a wonder gift
Better than using a foreign origin French word such as surprise. Words like that are hidden under the vail of foreignness so we English peasants don't have any sense of its true meaning but surprise would literally translate in to English as 'under-take' or 'under-grab'. To a French person surprise would sound as 'undertake' does to our ear.
Nothing funny about a word just because you are not used to it. Most multi-syllable words are made up (compounded) from smaller word units. Latin languages just the same as Germanic languages. Only modern English feels some great shame in using its own Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word stock.
Survive is another word that makes me shake my head. Almost every language in Europe uses a word, from their own word stock, literally meaning 'overlive'. Survive literally means 'overlive' but again, hidden behind the veil of 'foreignness' via French. French: survivre (lit. overlive), Spanish: sobrevivir (lit. overlive), Italian: Sopravvivere (lit. overlive), German: überleben (lit. overlive), Dutch: overleven (lit. overlive), Swedish: överleva (lit. overlive)...and on. What is the problem English?!! The Norman conquest really did a bad number on you! Use your own god damn words and do not be ashamed!!
Brook Anglish!!
@@leod-sigefast Now that was well said.
I’m baffled how well this still works. The consonants are still rhythmic, and the lyrics still have a recognizable pattern along the instrumentation.
What's suprising is that the lyrics are still readable in modern English if you look hard enough.
Teache me your Magic, wizard
@@ecliiipsssse just use old and simple words. For example, it kept on singing, "All the other child"
@@alphaundpinsel2431 IT WORKS
@@ecliiipsssse :)
When the Normans kid starts crossing the channel:
Everybody gangster until the quiet kid pulls out a long bow.
The good thing about longbows is that small kids can't pull them =D
ruclips.net/video/MNH0nwNTXQc/видео.html
Beach Towns are so quiet
@@J-IFWBR still cant beat you with it
Boga*
*a homemade crossbow with clockwork reloading function*
This song is honestly so well made. I'm not that familiar with Old English, just a few words, but this sounds so beautiful. In a way it kind of makes me sad for what English once was and how much it's changed. It really makes me want to learn it. It's funny too, I actually know the lyrics to this cover more than the original song.
[shakes fist] CURSE YOU NORMAN INVASION
@@mimisezlol Battle of Hastings !!!❤lol. I appreciate your humor!
@@brendahines4153 aw thanks. I think a lot about how English's most confusing aspects have to do with the influences of other languages, and how big a shift French control of England caused in the overall English lexicon and stuff, and all because of this channel.
@Mr. Graves It sounds certainly cool, but i would have a hell of a time learning english as a non native😅
@@mimisezlol CURSE YOU WILLIAM DE NORMANDY!
"All the young heathen with thy well crafted sandles better make haste faster than my quiver"
Great work my guy, can we get Simon Roper to review this? He's an Old English RUclipsr that knows a lot about the language.
Oh my goodness, yes! I love Simon Roper's channel.
This song speaks of the Anglo-Saxon archer whose father was slain in battle by Sweyn Forkbeard’s men. He later joined the fight against Erik of Denmark as Cnut the Great consolidated the entire Northern Sea. It is in the final lines where we see or rather hear his thoughts as he leads a daring attack of archers against the Viking king, in order to create a peaceful unity in the North, alas in the end this unnamed archer is slain by a charging enemy. He may have died but his dream of creating a peaceful North is realized by the great emperor Cnut the Great.
I want to know why in 1066 he had a pipe and what he was smoking? He was 500 years ahead of his time in that regard
@@tireachan6178 probably pipeweed or pipe grass
😭😭😭
Damn this back story makes this so much more intense
Damn why did you have to kill him off 😭😭😭
This is so beautiful!!!!!
Old English is the most beautiful language ever!!!
I can't believe the interest I would pick up in the 2020 Quarantine is Medieval covers of songs
Not that I mind
I think Viva La Vida is a song that would work well as its already kinda medieval
Minecraft
Rampi _ thou art a man of culture
@Lex Bright Raven when I gave the word, now every night I go hide away
Me as an asian:"I'm very good at english."
RUclips:Nah there's more to it.....
British: Want some opium?
@@Cerberus571 bwahahhahaha
The crazy part is when you look at old english. Sometimes words sound close enough to their modern counterparts that you might be able to recognize a word here or there but _reading_ it? Forget about it. Hƿæt is pronounced "what"
@@r.pizzamonkey7379 Kind of like how Hank Hill pronounces what, emphasising the h.
I thought you were Jamaican
Greetings from northwest Germany to our Anglo-Saxon family in England🏴💓👍🇩🇪
Thanks man. The Saxons weren’t the only people that made up England though. Norse migrated to England and so did the Normans. The Saxons were one of the largest groups however.
You should come by and visit England next summer
@@beaucaspar3990 indeed I've booked a B&B in Kent in May... with wife and dog. The last time I've been in England were in Gloucestershire in 2019.
@@albionmyl7735 Nice, I’m actually from Kent. I’d recommend checking out Canterbury. Canterbury is a really nice city. The river Stour flows through the city and they offer canoe tours on the river, I’d highly recommend it’s really chill.
@@beaucaspar3990 I have been in Canterbury several times... a wonderful kentish town with citywall the Cathedral ( I love the even songs) St. Augustine Abbey, The Canterbury tales.... Ive been in Deal, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Sandwich, Botany Bay.... Dover Castle... Ramsgate.... oh I love this country and his people very much... It's a little be like home in the meantime.. I felt alway very welcome and try to improve my english...
Greetings brother. I have Anglo-Saxon blood
You could almost make out some words we still use: "All the other children"
Check out Anglish if you wanna find similar words. It's kinda cool.
Almost sounds like. All the other Child.
This way this flows so perfectly illustrates that English has changed in many ways, yet still also stays the same in other ways
Why did we ever get rid of the letter thorn? (Bloody continental printing presses)...can we bring it back?
Yeah we should, English isn't governed by some company like French does. Go ahead! Encourage ðe use of “þorn”, ðere is noþing stopping you.
Kromiball the use of thorn confuses me because the thorn makes it look like porn
@@dyingofcringe8839 Good point. Right, I'm off to þornhub...
Th is still a grapheme that symbolizes ð, in Norse languages it's still used
@@Kromiball The thorn is honestly great and its a shame we don't have it. All the little dumb "rules" that modern English has typically grow from its cannibalism of other languages or its destruction of its past practices. Bring back the þ!
Bards are suddenly rising during the 21st Century Dark Age.
does this mean that our post-apocalypse will be medieval-flavoured?
Tbh I’m all for it
What's a plague without a bard to sing the tales of it's spread
A young serf, son of a fallen knight, disillusioned with the monarchy and petty feudalism, fastens a tight pair of sandals and takes up his fallen father's bow and leads an uprising, starting with the local magistrate. They had best outrun the arrows.
I legitemately love this so much, the fact you came together with other people with this as the final product. The vocals, lyrics and instrumental, it's just amazing. Keep up the amazing work
My English teacher was showing us old English and accidentally played this
Ne do cum to leorninghus tomorgen.
Best bardcore I've come across. Thank you for translating, both linguistically and culturally!
William the conqueror be like :
I’m gonna end this man whole language
Lmaooo
Yeah that's why you're writing this comment on in English...
@@alexhicks6207 not in Old English
@@TomorrowWeLive yes but the common factor between Old English and Modern English is the English
@@TomorrowWeLive it's not extinct it's called evolution that's like looking at the skeleton of the first human and going wow and now their species is extinct just because nobody looks like that outside of the Confederacy doesnt mean they're extinct they've just evolved
It's so interesting to hear how some words haven't really changed. The start of the chorus especially sounds like Modern English
If modern sagas weren't so full of pagan violence, those two knaves would never have committed the travesty of Eoforwic.
weird that as a Dutch person, I can *hear* the commonalities of Dutch and English found in Anglo Saxon
dutch is the 2nd closest language to English, after Afrikaans
@@Saberjet1950 Isn't Frisian the closest?
@@Saberjet1950 Scots is the closest, French then frisian and dutch.
I'm a portuguese speaker, but I think that dutch is so strange. Sounds like a disaster mix of german, english and french, and sounds so ugly. But I recognize that is more easy than german.
@@favoritos2420 "Sounds like a disaster mix of german, English, and french" as a Dutch person, I can confirm that it is a disaster mix of those 3 languages
When he said "sculon betera rinnin fram minum earhum" I felt that
I like that part too 😍
The accuracy of the language and accents on certain words/vowels is really incredible! This should have a billion likes lol
I like how "all the other kids" sounds the same in both.
This really takes me back. About three lifetimes ago.
This is better than the original. Your voice is haunting.
We need a medieval country roads
Who's with me?
I want a mideval Indi movie with this on the soundtrack and I need it before I die
Think bigger. A shot for shot remake of reservoir dogs set in dark ages London. Soundtrack and all.
Same
Everybody shall gangsta til thou silent student arrives to school with thy lyre case but he does not play thine lyre
the silent scabbard shall deliver to thee devastating pain and sorrow for ye whom hath wronged the silent one
I love this dude! You should do more Anglo Saxon lyrics for stuff!
I'm from Finland and this sounds like Icelandic but then again Icelandic and old English are both Germanic languages.
You are correct, however icelandic is closer (probably the closest) to Old Norse; the language of the Vikings.
Why say you're from Finland
As an anglo Saxon I just want to say that this is what we listened to all the time
It's crazy, I can hear the Latin, Nordic Viking, Germanic and French roots in some of the words etc and it definitely helps make it much more clear how English evolved to the beautiful mess of an language it is! 😊
Saxons founded the Vikings by migrating from the north and a mashing the last of the Jutes, they combined with the Jute descendants called angles. Wotan, vodan Oden. Saxons left behind the remainder of the Jutes who were called baordermen or Danes. The Danes went to sea and found the Saxons had accepted Jesus and through the church they became more educated such fancy words came from latin as rome could give up even after being shattered by Germans. However the fact the grammar held no only against integration unlike Frank's and then against the vikings as less than 1000 words from them while 90% of the Anglo saxons fell would have been good enough but to survive under the Normand was a stronger testament to the strength of the Saxon who endured and educated themselves to not only survivd but found the colleges that used to rule the world. Truelly a great people. I hope the slavs remember us all when we are gone.....
how DARE YOU THE FRENCH DIDNT HAVE ANY INFLUENCE IN THE LANGUAGE YOU BILINGERENT FOOL
This is a etymological/word root translation into German, word for word. Except for one word, I found an German equivalent to all, although sometimes with changed meaning marked with a *:
Hrotha hat ne kecke Hand
Lugte umher Raum, null (er)zählen dir sein Rat.
Er hat Schmöken-Pfeife voll,
hängen aus Maul, bist ein wilder Knecht*,
er fand irisch-wertigen Bogen,
in seines Vaters Kiste, daran(nebenan) an anderen Dingen.
Ich nicht gut genau(en)* was.
Er ist kommend für dich,
Er ist kommend für dich.
All die anderen Kinder mit findigen Socken*,
sollen besser rennen von meinen Ähren*
All die anderen Kind mit findigen Socken, sollen besser rennen, kecker denn mein Bogen.
Vater werken lange Tage
Er kommet Heim lasch*, er kommet Heim lasch*,
und er bringen mir eine Wunder-gift*, (vrgl. Mitgift),
für [Thennung] is in Küche badend in Eis.
Ich bin wacht für lange Weile
Gehen schleicht meines Handes bin neu ein keck-pflück* Stang.
(Ver)handeln mit meiner Pfeife,
Und sage dein Haar ist im Feuer,
du must haben (ge)löst deinen Witz, Ja
All die and'ren Kind'r mit findigen Socken*,
sollen besser rennen von meinen Ähren*.
All die anderen Kind mit findigen Socken*, sollen besser rennen, kecker denn mein Bogen.
(Instrumental)
All die and'ren Kind'r mit findigen Socken*,
sollen besser rennen von meinen Ähren*.
All die anderen Kind mit findigen Socken*, sollen besser rennen, kecker denn mein Bogen.
[þennung] is the only word I don't know an German etymological/word root equivalent for.
But the rest is quite understandable, if you have a broad vocabulary and some etymological knowledge.
@@MrChillerNo1
Heard of _Germanic languages_ ?
Sorry if I sound mean but if you have any awareness about the Germanic languages and roots of English your comment becomes almost entirely meaningless...
@@WarutteriWow... I'm speechless. Arrogant much?
No sh*t Sherlock. Im the one talking about etymology and providing a etymological translation, of coures I know it's a germanic language.
I mean your the one talking about hearing French roots in Anglo Saxon,
So I would come down from that high horse before you fall and break your neck one day.
Smh.
This isn't even a dark song anymore it's just a wholesome one
pumped up kicks indo-european next pls
That would unite the world.
pumped up kicks in pre-lingual neanderthal grunts when
Dio Damke ooga ooga booga!
Only 2020s BC kids would understand that.
omg yes pls I second this
I speak Dutch and English and this is completely followable
It's basically Frisean
@@CuchulainAD Archaic Frisian, but pretty much
@@CuchulainAD Yeah Saxons came from around that region
@@lolasdm6959 Honestly it sounds a lot like my mates and I when we've had a lot of drinks and are chilling in our local accents
I mean, the anglos and saxons were close to the modern day netherlands
Anglo Saxon is surprisingly beautiful. It helps, that the singer is also very artful.
It happened! Bardcore has ascended.
When the silent Anglo-Saxon kid slams his fist on the desk and yells, "Hwæt!" While reaching for his Germanic seax
It gave me nostalgic feelings of the tales we used to listen when we were kids like knights and a character with that kind of costume in the background..
Petition to have a medieval band for songs like this
Peasant boys when they have had enough of being bullied by the other squires:
The vikings : invading
Alfred and the gang:
Some of you Danes are ok, best leave for home before tommorw's dawn.
Me, being fluent in both german and english: Funny
meanwhile my brain: I understand it... i understand it not... i understand it... i understand it not...
Have you played total war shogun 2?
It's both creepy and fascinating how my german (not that skilled in german) helps me more than english itself
There's a heck of a lot of Latin there.
This lang has underwent so many changes over a millenia. You will understand it in a minute context, but safe to say it's not as what you might hear. But yes, knowing both langs help quite a bit, especially german. Keep in mind, anglo-saxon is still entirely unique.
@@sobolanul96 Their is 0 Latin
Everyone's a squire till the jester pulls out thier longbow
I’ve listened to this 5 times today, idk how I feel 😳 the vocals are so smooth and distinguishable, well done!
Only five???!!!