Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon tongue) Bardcore/Medieval style
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2020
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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.
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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
"what type of music do you like?"
"60's music"
"1960's?"
"1060"
Haha
Yeah which 60,s
norman invasion of england time!
1260s-1360s
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“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
Not only did you sing it in Old English but you altered the lyrics to be more period appropriate and still made it all fit. Outstanding.
Yep, that was the cool part.
Also I think there just was not a word for “gun” yet so he had to.
Except for the smoking pipe. Tobacco and pipes came from the Americas in the 15 th and 16 th centuries.
@@commentor369chelsea4 not with a pipe. Cannabis seems to have been steamed, opium ingested. It was obvious to everyone that smoke is always bad for you.
@@AutoReport1 we had other plants such as mugwort aka sailors tobacco before then and other plants mostly smoked in ritual fashion. Clay pipes have been found from this period.
How does the recording still sound so good after 1000 years? Truly amazing.
This sounds like the remastered version from the 1116 50th anniversary release.
@@stephenroutley1376 You're both wrong.
The reason it sounds so good is clearly because its been remastered by Renaissance Italians.
This tune was probably utter trash before the 15th Century.
@@togarnis8096 this is actually from my inns local bard in lublin your all wrong. he said god told him it and that means its objectively correct
957 year's!
@@togarnis8096 You're Both and both wrong, it's the French revolution Remaster by the Jacobins.
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.
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!
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Norwegian speakers: "hey, I recognize that language!"
Perhaps exclude English speakers...
hey ... it is just Anglo Saxon.
@@yomiolokodanaActually, 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
“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-
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?
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
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
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
All the French kids gangsta until the silent English kid shows up with a long boga
*langa boga
can’t tell if you’re talking about european history or the classic french-english rivalry in french/english immersion schools
What is a long boga?
@@94josema long bow. In the video it shows boga (bo-hah) means bow
Ooga boga
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"
It's mad how 'all the other kids' and other words (he, is, and...) sound practically the same, it really caught me off guard and it's the fact that these words i've been speaking my entire life were also spoke by some random villager however many hundreds of years ago, possibly someone who lived or farmed on the very land my house is built on. How they have survived so many centuries is truly mind-boggling and it's got to be the deepest sense of heritage I've ever felt
English: He, is, and
German: Er, ist, und
Dutch: Hij, is, en
Afrikaans: Hy, is, en
Conclusion: "is" is eternal
I sometimes think about this. I'm also mixed race, so to me it's even crazier to think that I'm somewhat detached from this heritage, yet I speak a language descended from it fluently.
Some random villager in Old England who probably didn't even know of my other ethnicity's existence could potentially speak to me.
I am a retired professor of medieval literature - Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. I loved reading Anglo-Saxon and seeing the students’ eyes light up at they hear for example “cwicra” and get that “quicker” and other words have come to them across 1500 years…this version of the song is awesome.
Also "hises fæder ciste" sounds practically the same to how we say his father's chest. That caught me off guard.
If you and he both were VERY patient, you could very likely have a halting, slightly-confusing conversation with your Old English-speaking great(x) grandpa, as long as it was a simple one. Given a week together and you'd likely have the beginnings of a patois. So many similarities.
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!
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!
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
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
@@robing1099yeah then t'welcum t'to count'try
@@robing1099 british accent, italian gesturing, and i assume german driving?
what have we created
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
When some kid says English isn't a Germanic language.
It's a language of all sorts lol lots of Latin in it
@@tesstickle7267 pure vocabulary it's grammar it's sentence structure it's base is Germanic and fairly obviously at that.
@@tesstickle7267 i was under the impression that latin is a bastardisation of greek and romanian
@@iordanneDiogeneslucas you have provoked a gang war.
@How winnie the pooh became emperor of china username checks out
(His name used to be “I am a dumbass” or something)
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
What's suprising is that the lyrics are still readable in modern English if you look hard enough.
Teache me your Magic, wizard
@@EclipseINF just use old and simple words. For example, it kept on singing, "All the other child"
@@alphaundpinsel2431 IT WORKS
@@EclipseINF :)
" _The invasion of William De Normandie and that of his Normans were perhaps one of the worst things that humanity has ever experienced, And the consequences of their actions have been most severe and dire for the human race as a whole_ "
-translated from the last missive written by
Cyning Hereweald Gudánwinnansune before the battle of Hastings.
I heard he had a stylish moustache
@@MalleusIudaeorum He did alongside beard (atleast depicted in the old Later paintings done during the 1500-1700's). I also remember reading something (A *very, very* long time ago. Mind you) that the beard/mustache styles of the very very late 1700's and throughout the 1800's were somewhat loosely based/inspired off of those many paintings of him. (If I recall correctly here or I could just be, blatantly be wrong about this)
Where did you find this?
Genghis Khan, hold my beer
I will never forgive William for robbing old English from me.
Old English is basically spicy German.
Anglo-Saxons were basically sea Germans, so it checks out
It actually sounds a lot more like dutch. I can actually understand it somewhat
@@uitham I don't want to trigger but dutch is part of the low german language family so he is right, it's actually northsea german. I will never understand why those language families are called (... ) - german, since german(the german language is only a central-german language
@@uitham jy bedoel sekerlik "Neder-Duits"? Want Afrikaans (wat ek hier tik) is baie soos Neder-Duits en is afkomstig daarvan. Dalk kom Hollands ook van Neder-Duits af?
@@Stahlross I speak Norwegian and Old Norse and I also understand like 40% of the whole sentence.
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*
legend has it the Saxons were singing this while the Normans were doing their feigned retreat
The fact that the lyrics changed "bullets" to "arrows" make this song great.
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
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.
I appreciate that “all the other” has basically not changed in pronunciation at all 😂
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 😂
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
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?
Imagine going to a tavern and hearing this song play in the background as you find out that Harold II was shot in the eye in battle and William the Bastard is now William the Conqueror of England
This is so beautiful!!!!!
Old English is the most beautiful language ever!!!
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.
The longer you listen to this the more sense it makes. It's surprisingly easy to switch our brains to Old English
I've seen so many of these medieval covers done poorly that I had low expectations for this, but it's actually quite good. This goes right into my cursed music folder.
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
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.
This way this flows so perfectly illustrates that English has changed in many ways, yet still also stays the same in other ways
It's so interesting to hear how some words haven't really changed. The start of the chorus especially sounds like Modern English
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!!!!!!
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
I like how "all the other kids" sounds the same in both.
As a Dane, Its so fascinating and awesome to see the Norse/Danish Iikeness in Anglo Saxon. "Sculon betera rinnen" is so close to modern Danish "skulle bedre rende" although you wouldn't formulate it quite like that. And the old form of "coming" "cumende" that's so close to the Danish direct translatation of "coming" which is "kommende".
Amazing
England was colonized by Danes, after all. The north of England was settled by Danish people and was known as Danelaw. Their language left its traces in England (and English).
It is also very close to German. With words like Boga (in German Bogen) it's really interesting how our languages come together
In German there's also besser, kommen and Rennen, which are cognates with old English. It's really funny that nowadays any continental/Norse Germanic language speaker can understand old English better than an English speaker, all thanks to the French.
All Germanic languages have a common root. Also the Anglo-Saxon tribes came not just from Germany but from Jutland and Frisia. It's not surprising at all that many words are shared.
So I'm hiding from some guy in a monastery and he has a bow... He keeps singing this... What do I do?
Withdraw, alert the watch!
@@slavonic8970 the thing is, he's not a monk, he's a quiet boy
Hide and stay silent in the privy, young squire
Put on your hauberk and pierce the vilain with your lance.
The Dank Meme Mastah 911? Sirrah, ‘tis the United Kingdom, wherein we alert 999!
Why is old english so satisfying to listen to? Every word flows smoothly
Especially the part when it says
_Sćulo'n betera rinnen_ 😍😍 0:45
Synthetic languages, that means languages with case endings, tend to have good flow.
@@kokofan50 what are some modern languages that are like that?
@@cyooldog3920 German still is, but it’s been simplified. French, Russian, Greek, Persian, Gaelic still are.
@@cyooldog3920 German still is, but it’s been simplified. French, Russian, Greek, Persian, Gaelic still are.
The fact that the Rohirrim from LOTR speak Anglo Saxon just makes this better
Anglo Saxon is surprisingly beautiful. It helps, that the singer is also very artful.
*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*
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.
As a history teacher I will definately use this in my lessons about the medieval era! Thank you
You know that the original song is about a school sh*oting
@@Cyclonixslol
@@Cyclonixs no no of course its not
Bagpipes don’t have a full range and have other instruments from old Yore That led them to fewer notes in a song then our techno versions of today. Also this version has a march driven drum beat to it or I could see it as the end of the day after dinner dancing rhythm we’re dancing over the poles or the hot rocks or a jig dance. I recall elect maple songs with this type of trend.
May pole dance
I do love hearing the voice of my ancestors so beautifully recreated.
There are Old English epics like Beowulf and then there are the REAL Old English epics. This lands firmly in the latter category.
Medieval remixes are by far the best thing to come out of 2020
Not that 2020 gave us many good things among which to choose
At least we have that heh. Ironically, mortality rate is down by 20%, at least in my country, people are afraid of their own shadow lolz
@@TheCrusaderBin Really? First time I've heard that regular mortality rate was lowered like that
@@Rygir child mortality ("sudden infant death syndrome") evidently dropped aswell in the first month of c word. Because parents postponed their infant's scheduled vaccinations because they refused to come to the centers where they give those afraid of catching Da vairous. Authorities were like "but... here it's safe... come get.. ur... aaaaaaah... Okay we open up everything.. And also c word doesnt affect children".. So Children dont need the comming Cvaccine? "well..."
Yeah, 2020 is such a dumpster fire that we have to go back 1000 years for decent content
what I love is that "all the other kids" basically sounds exactly the same now as it did a thousand years ago
My English teacher was showing us old English and accidentally played this
Ne do cum to leorninghus tomorgen.
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.
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.
The accuracy of the language and accents on certain words/vowels is really incredible! This should have a billion likes lol
Thank you, i am a German Saxon and understand 80% of the song and Lyrics.
IS halt wirklich so
Ich verstehe das meiste
Love em or hate em, he's spitting facts.
This is actually my first time hearing Anglo-Saxon. I gotta admit, it made me wanna learn it
my first time hearing Anglo-Saxon was on the ABAlphaBeta video "Evolution of Music" and, yeah, same. I wanted to learn it. I purchased the book Beowulf to help. Good book!
Look up on youtube "Leornonde eald Ænglisc"
Simon Roper has a lot of Old English videos for learning how it works and its history
@@wilsonsticks Simon Roper is ace. I love the way he speaks Old English so fluently. Like a native!
i got into bardcore then found this.
Now im waiting for my copy of 'complete old english: a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding old english, with original texts'
so excited
It's amazing that foster the people knew about this song and were able to do a cover in modern English
Unironically learning these lyrics so every time this song plays somewhere I can sing in full Anglo Saxon to the confused dismay of all the other shoppers in Walmart.
Sing it loud and proud brother!
I think this language was one of the most fascinating, and if not a key part to today's society. And without it, I'm sure a lot of education/knowledge being discovered today wouldn't be here without Anglo saxons. Also I wished English was still called " Ænglisc "
I do the same and quietly sing this version to myself and get weird looks
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.
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@@AntonNidhoggr in modern Norwegian, the word for arrow is interestingly completely disconnected from this.
We need to revive old English . Such a beautiful language.
@Jerome Wilshank - Bernadette Banner, who publishes videos on historical clothing, took Old English in college in England, I believe.
Revive as in ?
Aditya Dev bring it back lmao what you think I mean?
@@bigman7856 and start using it all of a sudden ?
Aditya Dev I’m not being serious, but it be interesting if that happened. I mean, some Chinese still speak mandarin which is pretty ancient.
I wish English was still like this, I feel it would make English much more unique.
Less unique I think. There isn’t really another language as mixed up an modern English.
Old English is very similar to Danish and German.
No it wouldn't that would be less unique in every single way
You have that massively backwards lmao as the other guys pointed out Old English is 90% just Dutch/German modern English is a different beast entirely with many influences and borrowed words but overall extremely unique and hard to learn bc it’s its own beast
I want more Old English songs so bad man
Old English sounds like a mix of English, Latin, and German.
holds the best sounds of all three, incredible stuff
It kinda is
Descended from the same language group German did, so not surprising.
No it’s not
Closest modern language to Old English in words and structure would be Frisian or Dutch. Old English is English before the influence of Latin and Norman French.
Isn’t it kinda weird how we know Anglo Saxon despite it being a dead language that *wasnt* kept alive due to it being used as a liturgical language? It’s like how the Chinese almost completely eradicated Manchu as a language until they realized that all their historical records were written in Manchu so they hastily went and found the 20 known remaining speakers and managed to revive the language
WHY WAS THIS LIKED
We need to do this with Gaelic and Manx Gaelic so they dont die out
@thunder key Irish has been a required subject in Irish schools for a while now. Pretty much since independence. Unfortunately it has never really stuck, which is a shame (though there are some young activists that are making a push to make Irish 'cool'. Translating popular music into Gaelic and so forth).
Really, the best example of this is Wales, where the language has taken off again.
@@danielmccollum5451 so from now on wales is jdiajajskoxidjfjfkdoekwkaosmmsosi again?
The Banana Bender Wales is simply Cymru in Welsh, or Cymraeg I don’t know what you’re trying to say.
1:23 this line sounds so good
Ive loved this song for over a year now and find it genuinely beautiful
OK, so Medieval-style covers of popular songs are fun even when they are just instrumental. But my eye kinda starts twitching when people put lyrics to those, and those are just modern English with a few "thee" and "thou" here and there (and usually used incorrectly), add a few "-eth" are thrown in for good measure, and that's it. It's just a pet peeve of mine.
Then there's the ones that actually try and make the stylization somewhat believable, with lyrics that are a passable approximation of Chaucer's English, or at least an early modern English vibe. Those are fun, because the lyricist puts in some damn effort.
And then there's this. This is impressive. This is gold. It's in a league of its own =D
But smoking a pipe in medieval europe? That's not very accurate.
@@LMvdB02 True, but this is just a translation, I'm sure there are plenty of songs that are accurate from 450 to 1154 AD
@@LMvdB02 could have been hashish
@@LMvdB02 mostly hashish
Pipe or not you could send these guys back in a time machine and I'm pretty sure the people back then would jam out to this tune.
When the French and Norman kids in Paris University mock you for being the only Anglo-Saxon there.
Bro, the Chinese character on your pfp is my name wtf. 😂🤣🙌🏼
@@chilliam00
是你父母希望你的智商高吧？😂
我的 profile pic 是為了諷刺自己自以為是的態度啊 呵呵
Great song, really mades you wonder how languages change over time, especially the words that are the same, and the ones that are different.
I wish people from back then could listen to this song. It would be a hit not only in our time but also in the year 1066 A.D.
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)
I love how much German I could find in these old lyrics and sounds.
It becomes so clear, that English is an Germanic language
Germaniac here.
We are Ger and we are many.
You better bow.
English was kidnapped from her Germanic sisters and forced to wear a Latinized dress.
Its a wild mix of german, english, dutch, Latin and nordic influences and as someone who speaks dutch, german and english fluently, the lyrics are very understandable. Thats interesting
English doesn’t borrow words from other languages, it mugs them in dark alleys.
Germs
Why is this actually so good, people are just so creative sometimes
I love how you adapted the lyrics for the time period. (Admittedly the words gun and bullets probably don't exist in Old English but still)
A bullet was a purpose-made slinger's missile (if natural it was a sling-stone, usually a river-worn or beach-shingle smooth stone), sometimes cast in lead, long before guns existed.
It's one of those old words we re-purpose so easily, like Irisc-wort, Irish-wrought, Irish-made in this song.
- and 'bogan' might just be the origin of both 'bow' and 'gun'.
@@stevetheduck1425 that's so cool! Thanks for telling me!
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
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 “
0:50 "Run from my arrow"
XD He change it from bullet to arrow lol!
FINALLY someone else noticed!
Quiet kid *pulls out bow*
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"
This works really well as an Anglo Saxon poem, it’s got the same kind of zany, dead-pan humour you find in Piers Plowman and all those A.S. riddles. Over the top bragging was perfectly acceptable in a poem. Even the stuff about the smoking pipe and the dinner laid on ice would have been seen as some sort of metaphorical allusion to his smoking rage and his dad being an ice-giant or something. The kids in fancy shoes could just mean spoilt, soft kids. I can really imagine a hall full of drunken churls all sitting round banging their ale-horns in time to the chorus 👏🏼✊🏼 The illustration is very well done, it looks like it’s from the Bayeux Tapestry.
"The kids in fancy shoes could just mean spoilt, soft kids."
Wait... So it's something else than that? I thought of this one since first hearing the song.
@@tzCombot well it also means that but in the original it also takes a much more literal meaning
The illustration was probably done using htck.github.io/bayeux
A bunch of commoners singing this in a tavern, then whatever the position equivalent to an overseer is walks in...
I think it is characters from the Bayeux Tapestry.
i still thank this channel for igniting my interest in historical linguistics
I like how it's the relatable tale of a working-class peasant boy...
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
The purity of your vowels and transitions are fit to make operatically trained vocalists weep with jealousy.
too kind sir too kind
Everyone's a squire till the jester pulls out thier longbow
Saxon english is beautiful man wish we still spoke it..
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
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are you american cus if you are that's just appropriate of her to do that
School archers
I love all the comments discussing how this song would fit into Old English history, so I thought I'd chime in about the smoking pipe. Tobacco is native to the Americas, so the Anglo-Saxons wouldn't have been smoking that. But there was a certain other green substance that was smoked quite a bit in their day that only recently just started to get legalized, if you catch my drift 😉
Certain fungi were probably quite popular...
420 AD blaze it 😌
Remember it's called "pipe-weed" for a reason. Longbottom leaf is particularly good and pairs well with salted pork.
@@sambird7946 😆
Cannabis wasn't introduced to Europe until a thousands years after the Anglo Saxons arrived, mushrooms were their lot
Chad Anglo-Saxon vs Virgin Norman
Finally! A bardcore cover in REAL Old English! :D