Old English Poetry: The Wanderer (Reading)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
  • In this short video I discuss the Old English poem "The Wanderer" from the 10th century Exeter Book, give a reading in Modern English and Old English. Some of my pronunciation may be a touch off!
    For the English translation of the ruin, I chose to use the fantastic work of Sean Miller, who I feel manages to capture the zeitgeist of the poem very well. You can find their work at the link below:
    www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/
    Timestamps:
    00:00 - Intro
    01:40 - Modern English Reading
    09:00 - Old English Reading
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    Music Used:
    Teller of the Tales by Kevin MacLeod
    Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
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Комментарии • 50

  • @jamesdavey9690
    @jamesdavey9690 26 дней назад +2

    This poem is the manliest thing I've heard in quite some time.

  • @westsaxoninwales
    @westsaxoninwales Год назад +18

    My ears pricking up when I heard the very clear influence of Theoden's speech in LOTR "where is the horse and the rider..."

    • @deankruse2891
      @deankruse2891 9 месяцев назад +1

      It’s actually Aragorn’s speech in the books

  • @caravaggiosaccomplice7841
    @caravaggiosaccomplice7841 8 месяцев назад +4

    I never heard a better rendition of this brilliant poem than by a Mercian.

    • @bloopblop5045
      @bloopblop5045 3 месяца назад

      whats your favorite westside gunn song

  • @flappyturtlesnatch
    @flappyturtlesnatch 7 месяцев назад +3

    Well done man. It's impossible to find a good version of this on YT. Glad you did this

  • @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
    @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 Год назад +6

    It's my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem as well.

  • @blade666vamp
    @blade666vamp Год назад +3

    Awesome, sounds great in Old English

  • @tonyreyes9471
    @tonyreyes9471 Год назад

    Your work are so great, i really love The Old English.

  • @MaximusOfTheMeadow
    @MaximusOfTheMeadow Год назад +1

    That was Beautiful , thank you

  • @ReekRendTest1
    @ReekRendTest1 Год назад +3

    Thank you ‼️

  • @hollish196
    @hollish196 Год назад +6

    I LOVE this poem. It equals the one about the woman who walks shoreline missing her lover. I would have to do some seeking to find the title. Thanks for the post of this. Nice reading! And good gods, I have lost so much of my Old English! That's just embarrassing.

    • @ReekRendTest1
      @ReekRendTest1 Год назад +5

      Let me know of you find it !!

    • @Tom-sd9jb
      @Tom-sd9jb 2 месяца назад

      Was it Deor?

    • @hollish196
      @hollish196 2 месяца назад

      ​@@Tom-sd9jb I don't recall an author--one of the many Anon. works.

    • @Tom-sd9jb
      @Tom-sd9jb 2 месяца назад +2

      I think I've found it for you:
      Wulf ond Eadwacer.
      A lady called Hanna Marti sings a lovely version of it on her RUclips channel.

  • @NBDYSPCL
    @NBDYSPCL Год назад +1

    There's elements in this that make me think of the Havamal.

  • @donaldscully5656
    @donaldscully5656 5 месяцев назад

    Such a beautiful teaching from ancient times that applies in the present as we suffer planetary apathy.

  • @ingvaeon582
    @ingvaeon582 11 месяцев назад

    Cool top, man.

  • @JBNat
    @JBNat Год назад +3

    Heee willl ride, across land and time
    To finddd a wayy through this endless night

    • @thefyrdsman9590
      @thefyrdsman9590  Год назад +1

      Ensiferum shall be blasted throughout the office today

  • @weyjosh5213
    @weyjosh5213 4 месяца назад

    more videos!!

  • @BS-mz4in
    @BS-mz4in Год назад +2

    Very based.

  • @Beery1962
    @Beery1962 2 месяца назад

    Nice rendering, but I think it would be better if the English closed caption translations lined up properly with the Old English they're supposed to be translating.

  • @yehudithitzhaky5812
    @yehudithitzhaky5812 Год назад

    please do the seafarer . and keep digging to before the sky fell

  • @Tom-sd9jb
    @Tom-sd9jb 2 месяца назад

    This is most certainly seems like a Christian poem?
    As somewhat of a folk Christian (if such a thing exists), I love this!

  • @georgewyatt3921
    @georgewyatt3921 Год назад +3

    Amazing content. Hoping for part two of Anglo Saxon Paganism.

    • @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx
      @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx 9 месяцев назад +1

      The wanderer is Christian but it keeps the old Germanic warrior culture

  • @900704949
    @900704949 Год назад +1

    oh you beast!!!!

  • @andrewtucker94
    @andrewtucker94 5 месяцев назад

    The end seems to be cut off for me...

  • @jacob_stuni
    @jacob_stuni Год назад

    Wasn't expecting someone like him 💀😂 a gangster 😂

    • @thefyrdsman9590
      @thefyrdsman9590  Год назад +2

      Just cause ya boi has tattoos, doesn't mean he can't enjoy some good poetry. ❤️

  • @alexanderwagner4587
    @alexanderwagner4587 Год назад

    Am I seeing things or did you put some size on? You look a little wider and thicker brah! 💪

    • @thefyrdsman9590
      @thefyrdsman9590  Год назад +2

      Thank you Alexander Wagner, I've been hitting the gym like King Offa hit the Welsh. 💪

  • @jrb4935
    @jrb4935 Год назад +7

    These poems are poignant because the English are now like exiles in their own country.

    • @citcat2220
      @citcat2220 Год назад

      I don’t think anyone wants to hear your far right bollocks on here mate. The Anglo Saxons were a people who themselves had their roots abroad

    • @lusolad
      @lusolad Год назад +2

      Just like the USA.

    • @Joachimhuby
      @Joachimhuby Год назад

      Yawn

    • @jrb4935
      @jrb4935 Год назад

      @@Joachimhuby Do you live in England, 'Joachim'?

    • @Joachimhuby
      @Joachimhuby Год назад +4

      @@jrb4935 Why did you put my name in quotations? I was born in England and lived there for many years and many of my friends live there still so I am very familiar with what is going on. The notion of the English being "exiled in their own country" is just laughable. Particularly funny that you idolise a people and culture that did in fact exile the native population of Britain, coming over on boats, changing the language, culture and laws forever. All of the things I imagine you accuse foreigners of doing now, though they clearly and demonstrably are not.

  • @St-lucifer-96
    @St-lucifer-96 6 месяцев назад

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️⚔️