I was reading a new edition of one of the oldest books in Swedish (the Erik Chronicle) which had the Old Swedish one page and the modern Swedish on the facing one. All of a sudden I saw a word I instantly recognized from English amongst the surprisingly difficult Old Swedish... yes: "understand". At it did in fact mean understand.
I'll never look at the word "understand" the same way again. All those Old English words... the language has changed so much due to sound change and the importation of words from French and other places. But "understand" translates to "understand". Pretty much unchanged by the millennia. One cool word.
Yeah. It's hard to say what family english is in because of the constant raids. It's like a mix of old Saxon britonic old French and norse with Latin too.
@@losisansgaming2628 No it's not. German and English are both ancestors of the Westgermanic language, thus is part of the Westgermanic language family. The grammar of English is Germanic, French and Latin had no influence on the core grammar whatsoever.
Imagine being a poor farmer in need of money, a stranger tells you of a hidden chest full of money, but when you arrive, you find a band of bards, playing this. I would get my pitchfork ready
And then you get arrested for assault and they tell you that you are going to jail and when you get there it's just this, I would get my strangling game on.
@@morrigankasa570 he’s not talking about opinions! You probably copy paste wrong comment section! This guy say If’s he’s poor farmer In need for moneys, a strange tells you of a hidden money! And he would get a pitchfork out of the hidden money. This is not opinions about Never give up! Maybe next time stop copy paste wrong comment section. Read the comment section before you copy paste, kid
As a person who lives in Poland, who speaks Polish as a native language, learned English by Google Translate and knows a bit German, i love how the word understand never changed.
Perfect to Rick Roll my history teacher. Edit: Sorry for updating 2 years later 💀💀 2 years ago I sent him an email with the video and other with my actual work. I asked him the next day for the "confusion" but only said "ok" and didn't care bruhhhh. And also told me that he almost put me a 0 bc he though that I hadn't done the work.
@@cpp3221 It never spoke a Latin language. Before Old English, Welsh would have been the lingua franca. Latin was only the Roman administration of Roman Britain, and a few complicit upper class Britons. But no, English still isn't a Latin language. It is firmly Germanic in base, grammar, pronunciation and syntax. Just a lot of Latin words were added after 1066 but the Old English base remains.
Those words are all still there in English. it is just modern English speakers are a bit 'blind' to the links to the Old English words and are not taught the spelling differences between O.E. and Mod.E. Léoge is seen in this video for the word lie. you might think they are completely different but once you realise that 'g' in OE was often pronounced as a 'y' sound you see that this is the exact ancestor of the modern word lie (with change in pronunciation, of course). Forgive is there also, but meant to 'abandon' in Old English. Ic is 'I', þu is the foreword of 'thou'. óðer is 'other', geseleð meant 'give' in OE and at first looks nothing like modern English but it is made up of a 'ge-' element that is dead in modern Englist and sell + eð (the 3rd person conjugation ending). So the modern word sell is from that, but it meant more like 'to give' in Old English. Dærst is the same as modern 'dare' +est (2nd person conjugation ending). Mód is the ancestor of modern English mood but it meant more like 'heart, bravery, feelings' in Old English. there are plenty more example.... A bit of learning of O.E. spelling and pronunciation will enlighten you
@Seth White While english is definitely Germanic, i wouldn't say Norman/French influence faded away, considering the amount of words from French origins
The one thing I like about old and mid English is that it sounds so close to Latin and German, but it’s so distinct enough it genuinely feels like you’re listening to an alien language
It's just crazy to think there were various language like this but now they don't exist anymore and it makes me think allot about the world what would have happened if the Etruscans or samminites became a empire and the Romans didn't. Crazy stuff
As a German, id like to politely give my thoughts to this .. wtf, this is no where near German. It doesnt sound like new or old german, we dont use funny Symbols, nothing.
Late to the party, but this is splendid. I’m not a good judge of the language, but you always make it sound quite effortless. 😂🙏 Also fun fact: I’ve met the woman the original was written for. Small world!
@It's ya boi, Ella! Normally I would be annoyed by someone inserting their language, but Hungarian is actually super interesting, as it’s not really related to any other language strongly
@@Spoon80085 it is related to finnish and estonian It is called uralic but it splat into finnic and ugric. Ugric became hungarian while finnic splat into finnish and estonian The languages in the rest of europe are indo european
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@@jer8036 Yes. Hungarians left the lands where languages like their language was spoken. Same with Turkish. It doesn't have any relation with Greek, Arabic or Armenian. The languages that are related to Turkish are actually spoken in Central Asia but turkish people migrated to Anatolia. Just like the Huns who migrated to Central Europe from Eurasian steppes.
That's the thing, english is a rolling release. Which also explains why words that are written the same way are pronounced differently and words that are pronounced the same are written differently. They never came around to patch that bug they introduced with the french import because they were still busy with fixing all the latin issues. And there are still issues around from when they changed the engine from celtic to germanic. And don't even get me started on the scots fork. Or the fact that version 1492 caused multiple companies to run updates independently from each other, creating slightly incompatible releases.
@@quelebm125 Plus whatever stray words, phrases, grammar, and pronunciation it can scavenge or rob other languages of after mugging them. 😂 If languages were people, English would basically be Jack the Ripper.
I had a dream I sang this song in classic latin, had to come online to see if anyone had made a latin version. Found this instead. I'm not disappointed.
@@alfiemillersharp english got its french influence and therefore became modern english slowly in 1066 when william of normandy invaded england so around 1000 to 1100 years old.
My only criticism is that you should have titled it something like “strawberry fields forever in olde English” for it to be a true Rick roll. Other than that it was great!
A rickrolled Sutton Hoo helmet on a loop. Brilliant. My daughter's partner is an archeologist. They've also survived Covid lockdown together without company in the countryside. Sums up how I saw him grin at her today. Roflmao. Bless you.
As a german i can hear the similarities. In the phrase "nā ne forlǣte ic þē" the "forlǣte" would be "verlasse" (leave) in german and the "ic" even sounds like "ich" (I) but a little bit more harsh. "þē" would be "dich" (you) in german. 🇬🇧🇩🇪
“Your Majesty! We have a telegram based on the attack the from the Romans!” “You have my permission to speak the message!” “Nā me forgife iė pē…” “Dammit! He got me again!”
@@simplesack_ Maybe it would from a more modern point of view, but I believe that voiceless fricatives /f θ s ʃ x/ were voiced between vowels in Old English, notice how "forgife" and "forsċrife" have their first f pronounced as /f/ and the second one as /v/
The issue with this video is that some of the Old English pronunciations are slightly off. For example "me" with the macron over it was pronounced "may" in Anglo Saxon, but the lead singer pronounced it "me" here.
No Swedish or Danish though. I would have recognised that. :) But the vikings at that time spoke languages that sounded much like Icelandic. :) And the English language has borrowed a lot of words from the Vikings, Saxons and later French.
@@caligulawellington3171 English is a Germanic language that incorporated many different other languages early. But I believe Old English also included older Swedish and Danish. I may be wrong, though.
Being Dutch I can hear that Old Dutch and Old English are closely related: words like ‘gelogen’ (lie) and forskrive (voorschrijven: order, prescribe and related meanings) forlæte (verlaten: to leave) come up.
Isn’t “gelogen” a word still used in modern German? Lügen-log-gelogen is the conjugation of the verb “to lie”. It seems surprisingly consistent throughout all Germanic languages 🎉
You might be interested to hear that the "ge" prefix found in Germanic languages survived in some dialects of English. The consonant has been lost, so it is now found as "a-going" and "a-speaking" and the like.
it didn't even connect to my mind to compare it to dutch, and i'm also natively dutch (more specifically flemish, and i think it's related to frisian, so makes sense that it doesn't sound quite how my southern speech sounds)
I'm just going to recommend going to Rick Astley's account and listening to the slow/pianoforte version. It is just the most emotional song, and the dissonance makes you feels sad the internet is ending. It is a trip. Also he did a bunch of excellent covers over Covid that are worth a listen.
Honestly the melody works great with medieval instrumentation. If I heard it in the background of some fantasy game trailer I wouldn’t think twice about it.
As a huge history nerd who loves languages, I love how Ancient English sounds so different than the modern one, but some words can be identified. It just shows the roots of an entire language clear as day, it's like digging up an ancient tomb.
Incredible
Oh boy! Thank you so much ❤❤❤
@@the_miracle_aligner It's horse shit
@@the_miracle_aligner it’s incredibilis
(Basically incredible but in Latin)
@@nolanwarner1016 It's a stupid joke, it's not funny and it actually sounds like shit
@@J.R.Hunter99 You must be a Norseman who just got Rīcarolled
Bardcore is honestly such a treasure.
NO U!
@@the_miracle_aligner this is the most wholesome comment
More like skaldcore here
I don't know dude...too many are way too samey
best thing the quarantine produced
Bruh, Imagine going back in time and releasing this banger. Literally folklore.
Simply dragonbreath my good man
And starting a time paradox
@@sieistohn oh boy not that shit again
"We can make a religion out of this"
@@DZ477 but.... *THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER*
Rick Astley is so talented, he's actually able to translate English into English.
E
E😊
Jajajja literalmente
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@@flavio15c what languages you saying
I love how "understand" is only word that was unchanged
Even the word 'and'
And the give you up
@@o0ooo767 to ond
@@fjig1139 No it was not.
Yeah not only has the word been left unchanged, it was pronounced the way it was supposed to as well in OE.
Imagine engraving this on a rock so we can rickroll future archaeologists.
Somebody needs to do this
@@johanfriberg4705 I'll do it
@@piano9146 do it
@@adyant4711 I WILL
I WILL MAKE THE GEN Z PROUD
The rest of english language: evolved beyond recognition
the word understand: "understand"
Quite fitting how it's the only word remaining that a Modern English speaker can understand
Not beyond recognition, many of the words are quite similar in pronunciation
Understandable, carry on
I was reading a new edition of one of the oldest books in Swedish (the Erik Chronicle) which had the Old Swedish one page and the modern Swedish on the facing one. All of a sudden I saw a word I instantly recognized from English amongst the surprisingly difficult Old Swedish... yes: "understand". At it did in fact mean understand.
Me stayed the same too
“Understand” is the real Rick Astley of the English language. In over a thousand years it never deserted us.
It's the only word I understood
@@tungsten2009i understood every word because of the subtitles
Understand is the only word I understand.
Ундерстанд
And and too
I'll never look at the word "understand" the same way again. All those Old English words... the language has changed so much due to sound change and the importation of words from French and other places. But "understand" translates to "understand". Pretty much unchanged by the millennia. One cool word.
Yea. It's nice to know that our understanding hasn't changed
I think it's really cool how close to german it is.
the word me has been left unchanged as well
@@loganjay7634 Take my Like and get out.
@@loganjay7634 terrible, absolutely terrible. You should be fed to Grendle.
This is singlehandedly the most superior piece of content ever to grace the entire internet
Oh my! Thank you so much ❤ Today is a glorious day, for Lady Bernadette has graced my channel. Haha
Why are you here 😭. This isn't the costume section😫😥
Historybounding next level
OUR QUEEN
I wholeheartedly agree.
remember kids, modern pop songs are temporary
*but rickrolling is eternal*
Yes my brother. Indeed
Ima rick roll a caveman
we'll all miss Rick Astley one day
Rick will always life
Yes indeed
I speak German, so it's fun being able to see German in this. You can really see how the two languages are linked.
Yeah. It's hard to say what family english is in because of the constant raids. It's like a mix of old Saxon britonic old French and norse with Latin too.
@@losisansgaming2628 Saxobritofrancanorsolatin, thats what English is supposed to be called.
@@losisansgaming2628 No it's not. German and English are both ancestors of the Westgermanic language, thus is part of the Westgermanic language family. The grammar of English is Germanic, French and Latin had no influence on the core grammar whatsoever.
@@fremejoker I believe he's referring to the vocabulary, not the grammar.
Goddamn it Hitler is related to english? How racist i cannot accept this!
Beowulf ripping off Grendel's arm: We know the game and we're gonna play it
Beowulf wasn't english though.
@@Hubert_Cumberdale_ the poem is in Old English
@@Hubert_Cumberdale_ pedantic nerd
@@Hubert_Cumberdale_ the Anglo-saxon are not English too
@@thewhovianhippo7103 interesting angle to take
Everything is temporary,
But "understand" is eternal
*rickroll is eternal
@Planet 9X definitely..
Whats ur fav anime?
Funny that you also have a Doom glyph as your pfp
@@DatWingMan yup
Full
Imagine being a poor farmer in need of money, a stranger tells you of a hidden chest full of money, but when you arrive, you find a band of bards, playing this. I would get my pitchfork ready
And then you get arrested for assault and they tell you that you are going to jail and when you get there it's just this, I would get my strangling game on.
@@anasaitomioka8854 I genuinely thought you were goimg to say “and when you get there they give you $200.”
I love the original and dislike people being so down on it.
I'd happily be "Rick Rolled" a dozen times a day (as long as no viruses attached).
@@morrigankasa570 he’s not talking about opinions! You probably copy paste wrong comment section! This guy say If’s he’s poor farmer In need for moneys, a strange tells you of a hidden money! And he would get a pitchfork out of the hidden money. This is not opinions about Never give up! Maybe next time stop copy paste wrong comment section. Read the comment section before you copy paste, kid
Lol i love the idea of bringing a band everywhere whenever you want to rickroll someone
As a person who lives in Poland, who speaks Polish as a native language, learned English by Google Translate and knows a bit German, i love how the word understand never changed.
It is awesome. Almost feels planned.
learned english in google translate
big respect for you
@@gr0ke yup
Sheesh hoƿd you even learn englisċ þrough google translate
It must have been a very useful word throughout the years.
I have never felt so peaceful after getting rickrolled
This is unforgivedable
Yup me too
The is one of the kind of rickrolls that has histories respect!
700th like 🤣
Same
I rickrolled my History teacher and he actually appreciated it
Woah your teacher understands this meme ? He would be an awsome teacher
@@JustANormalOne yes, he may had not been taught ancient English formally but it was more of hobby, a real history buff
@@nguyenminhle8694 I see, he is a man of culture as well
@@JustANormalOne à khoan, chào đồng chí nhá ❤
@@nguyenminhle8694 tôi tưởng ông là kiều bào quên cả tiếng Việt rồi chứ :))
Oswald of Northumbria: "Nah we can handle these pagans"
Penda of Mercia: Sends video
Penda is the most metal of the old Anglo-Saxon kings
Oswiu looks on in horror.
And Oswald was right
Death to Christianity and Islam.
@@shu830 and hinduism too.
if you watch it in 1.25x it flows more like the original version, and sounds just as good
Great suggestion 👍
Rick astley dances faster!
yea tbh this song just wasn't peoduced very well
“Iċ bidde þē” = “ich bitte Sie” Dude just straight up started speaking intelligible German for a moment there!
Great work as always :)
Ég bið þig in Modern Icelandic. Fun to see how close the germanic languages are :)
iirc "þē" = "thee" = singular you so it'd be "du" but yeah, it's cool how close it is
Yeah, I speak German and Danish, and there were a lot of bits where I could find cognates.
forlǣte = verlassen
(ġe)lēoge = gelogen
lange = lange
drēfe = (be)trüben
friġne = fragen
forsċrīfe = verschreien (?)
I bid thee
Vikings: we did it bois we conquered England
King Alfred with his new army:
AHAHA
As England keep existing it was a sad day for the world
Actually old English was heavily influenced by old Norse, because of all the Viking conquests in England.
But Alfred is still stronger lmao
This should be pinned! 🤣
@@maximodubs4189 there'll always be an England
The Queen listens to this every year since the dawn of time which helped her achieve immortality
Because Rick and roll is immortal.
Rick and roll will never die
@@albertofichera4154 Because, legend never dies.
Yes.
@Mr Minecrafter AMEN!!
Imagine if you time travelled back to like 7th century England and started singing this until every one thought it was a banger lmao
I would like to sing in public haha
Perfect to Rick Roll my history teacher.
Edit: Sorry for updating 2 years later 💀💀
2 years ago I sent him an email with the video and other with my actual work. I asked him the next day for the "confusion" but only said "ok" and didn't care bruhhhh.
And also told me that he almost put me a 0 bc he though that I hadn't done the work.
@100ksub without any videos challenge Damn you.
Thanks for the idea.
Imagine she doesn’t know what a rickroll is and now thinks you’re weird
@100ksub without any videos challenge no
I’m ur 666th like
Village: Oh no the Vikingers are here, I hope they don’t burn our houses down
Vikinger leader:
The worst fate of all!!
Gets rickrolled in old English
Raiding your sanity since the dark ages!
“You know the rules and so do I.”
@@HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire yes i get it now
Basically villager raid in a nutshell
Me: ahah that's fun how all the words changed - I can't recognize anything from modern English!
*the verb "understand" has entered the chat*
As german its sounds like dutch for me^^
Because French ruined the language and replaced the vocabulary
@@chickenfeed6272 it didn't ruined... Britain just returned to latin languages.
@@cpp3221 It never spoke a Latin language. Before Old English, Welsh would have been the lingua franca. Latin was only the Roman administration of Roman Britain, and a few complicit upper class Britons. But no, English still isn't a Latin language. It is firmly Germanic in base, grammar, pronunciation and syntax. Just a lot of Latin words were added after 1066 but the Old English base remains.
Those words are all still there in English. it is just modern English speakers are a bit 'blind' to the links to the Old English words and are not taught the spelling differences between O.E. and Mod.E. Léoge is seen in this video for the word lie. you might think they are completely different but once you realise that 'g' in OE was often pronounced as a 'y' sound you see that this is the exact ancestor of the modern word lie (with change in pronunciation, of course).
Forgive is there also, but meant to 'abandon' in Old English. Ic is 'I', þu is the foreword of 'thou'. óðer is 'other', geseleð meant 'give' in OE and at first looks nothing like modern English but it is made up of a 'ge-' element that is dead in modern Englist and sell + eð (the 3rd person conjugation ending). So the modern word sell is from that, but it meant more like 'to give' in Old English. Dærst is the same as modern 'dare' +est (2nd person conjugation ending). Mód is the ancestor of modern English mood but it meant more like 'heart, bravery, feelings' in Old English. there are plenty more example....
A bit of learning of O.E. spelling and pronunciation will enlighten you
I am still repeating this over and over again, this song is beautiful
Britons: Ahh, we're finally free from Rome...Why are a bunch of ships coming here?
Anglo-Saxons:
Lol
*Horrible Histories nostalgia intensifies*
Then the Anglo-Saxons get fucked over by the normans
And then the royalist got fucked by the parliamentrians
@Seth White While english is definitely Germanic, i wouldn't say Norman/French influence faded away, considering the amount of words from French origins
Everyone who speaks English understands the word “understand”
damn this comment section is educational
Understandable have a great day.
I though they would use a old english, not "thy olđest".
Ūndarständ
Hai (yes in japanese)
@@finleyturner8193 hai mean hi in Malaysia/Indonesia
Legend says 97% of executions resulted from RickScrolling in the olden days
Rick scrolling
Rick scrolling
Rick scrolling
rick scrolling😂😂🤣
Rick scrolling
"You know the traditions" Best line 10/10
The Welsh: “Now that Rome is weak, I hope we can take back the rest of the isles again.”
The Angles and Saxons:
Shouldn't it be Anglo?
@@lucidnode, nope, the Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that invaded the isles. The Saxons were the second group.
@@lucidnode I don’t think you learned year 3 English history…
@@ed_5655, of course we don’t forget the Jutes! The Jutes are great.... who are the Jutes again?
@@MatthewChenault the Jutes are the ones no one remembers
🗿
It's like Apple making the first iPhone. bringing us things that we didn't knew we needed
"Needed"
Þis is α good comment, understanded, and yes
I didn’t know I needed this, however.
never gonna give you up! yes
never gonna let you down! yes
I can’t wait to use this in my next D&D campaign.
do it
Lmao
You do dnd as well?!
How to play d&d?
is this a spell you can use?
This doesn't sound like a rick roll anymore. This song is so calm, it just makes me think about life 😭😭
The one thing I like about old and mid English is that it sounds so close to Latin and German, but it’s so distinct enough it genuinely feels like you’re listening to an alien language
It's just crazy to think there were various language like this but now they don't exist anymore and it makes me think allot about the world what would have happened if the Etruscans or samminites became a empire and the Romans didn't. Crazy stuff
Because English is inspired by German and Latin. Many of our words are derived of these language.
pov listening to my sims have a conversation
As a German, id like to politely give my thoughts to this .. wtf, this is no where near German. It doesnt sound like new or old german, we dont use funny Symbols, nothing.
it has the german "sh" sounds and the english feel at the same time
For all of you Anglo-Saxon runes users, here are the lyrics
ᛚᚢᚠᚢ ᚾᛁᛋ ᚢᚾᚳ ᚢᚾᚳᚢᛞ
ᚦᚢ ᚹᚪᛋᛏ ᚦᚪ ᚦᛠᚹᚪᛋ, ᚩᚾᛞ ᛠᚳ ᛁᚳ ᚹᚪᛏ
ᚠᚢᛚᛚ ᚷᚩᛖᚠᚪᛋᛏᚾᚢᛝ ᛁᛋ ᛘᛁᚾ ᚱᚩᛖᛞ ᛚᚪ
ᚾᚪᚾ ᚩᛞᛖᚱ ᚹᛖᚱ ᚾᛖ ᚷᛖᛋᛖᛚᛞ ᚦᛁᛋ ᚦᛖ
ᛁᚳ ᚾᛁᛚᛚᛖ ᛒᚢᛏᚪᚾ ᚦᛖ ᛘᛁᚾ ᛘᚩᛞ ᚪᚱᛖᚳᚳᚪᚾ
ᛁᚳ ᛒᛁᛞᛞᛖ ᚦᛖ, ᚢᚾᛞᛖᚱᛋᛏᚪᚾᛞ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᚠᚩᚱᚷᛁᚠᛖ ᛁᚳ ᚦᛖ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᛏᚱᚢᚳᛁᚷᛖ ᛁᚳ ᚦᛖ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᛋᚹᛁᚳᛖ ᛁᚳ ᚦᛖ ᚾᛖ ᚠᚩᚱᛋᚳᚱᛁᚠᛖ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᚹᛖᛈᛋᛏ ᚦᚢ ᚠᚩᚱ ᛘᛖ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᚠᚩᚱᛚᚩᛖᛏᛖ ᛁᚳ ᚦᛖ
ᚾᚪ ᚾᛖ ᛞᚱᛖᚠᛖ ᛁᚳ ᚦᛖ ᚾᛖ ᚷᛖᛚᛖᚩᚷᛖ
MadLad
Absolute chad
@GD Mint That is the modern version written in runes, what I wrote is this, Old English version in runes
I'm illiterate
@@coinvestnet then how are you writing
Late to the party, but this is splendid. I’m not a good judge of the language, but you always make it sound quite effortless. 😂🙏 Also fun fact: I’ve met the woman the original was written for. Small world!
Ayy Ty so much Queen! Oh the party doesn't start until you arrive XD And holy shit! Small world indeed 🤣❤
Hi
Well what did she say????
In Newton - Le - Willows?
The legend! The Queen! The EMPRESS!
I love how every word has changed, and then there's *understand*
I just got bardrollled, I can't believe this
Rather, _Ricarolled_
Ah yes, Sir Richard of the Roll, the Bard that Trolls Hard
Nā ne forgife ic þē
Nā ne truc ge ic þē
Nā ne swice ic þē ne forscrife
Nā ne Wēpst þu for mē
Nā ne forlæte ic þē
Nā ne drēfe ic þē ne lēoge
@@BlipoHippo ᚠᚢᚳᛣ, you got me good
Oh wait no thats probably a bot
@@BlipoHippo
@@BlipoHippo
English: A different language every 200 years
Greek: Capable of having a conversation with Alexander the Great
@It's ya boi, Ella! Normally I would be annoyed by someone inserting their language, but Hungarian is actually super interesting, as it’s not really related to any other language strongly
this is actually amazing
@It's ya boi, Ella! long live Magyar!!!
@@Spoon80085 it is related to finnish and estonian
It is called uralic but it splat into finnic and ugric. Ugric became hungarian while finnic splat into finnish and estonian
The languages in the rest of europe are indo european
@@jer8036 Yes. Hungarians left the lands where languages like their language was spoken.
Same with Turkish. It doesn't have any relation with Greek, Arabic or Armenian. The languages that are related to Turkish are actually spoken in Central Asia but turkish people migrated to Anatolia. Just like the Huns who migrated to Central Europe from Eurasian steppes.
imagine finally learning english to fluent level and it updates
That's the thing, english is a rolling release. Which also explains why words that are written the same way are pronounced differently and words that are pronounced the same are written differently.
They never came around to patch that bug they introduced with the french import because they were still busy with fixing all the latin issues.
And there are still issues around from when they changed the engine from celtic to germanic.
And don't even get me started on the scots fork.
Or the fact that version 1492 caused multiple companies to run updates independently from each other, creating slightly incompatible releases.
@@HappyBeezerStudios cant wait for english 3
so this is how our ancestors used to rickroll each other.
What did you think a bards job was
BuT RIcKRoLl dIDNT EXist BaCk ThEn
@@felalboi r/WoOoOsH
@@FakeLLama23 sArCaSm
"our forebears"
i love how old english actually sounded like a proper germanic language... meanwhile current english is... well current english
now we just need to make anglish more germanic
English is three languages in a trenchcoat.
@@quelebm125new favorite way to explain English to non English speakers lol
You right. Thou speakest true, mine bloodied shadow presence!
@@quelebm125 Plus whatever stray words, phrases, grammar, and pronunciation it can scavenge or rob other languages of after mugging them. 😂 If languages were people, English would basically be Jack the Ripper.
The pressure to make time travel possible is stronger now
I was thinking more along the lines of immortality so I could spend massive chunks of time learning all this stuff.
We need to go to the past to teach the past people this song so it can be a national anthem.
1:13 sounds like Rick is saying "soup for me"
*Stew
More like stew for me
I had a dream I sang this song in classic latin, had to come online to see if anyone had made a latin version. Found this instead. I'm not disappointed.
nice dream
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никогда тебя не брошу
@Aurora Crane не знаю
@@AKOSKASAZ Wait that’s a slavic language right?
Sounds like the equivalent of a 5th century boy band wooing a teenage princess
accuracy
fax
Caesar moment
@BTS Army not really he didn't refer to any historical moment to seem smart, just said a joke.
Then immediately gets beaten by her knight escort.
This is the most advanced Rick roll.
No,its ancient.
The most advanced rickroll is when elon musk plants computers in our brains and someone hacks it to rickroll us in our minds
Not quite the most advanced. Something more advanced would be having an SSTV signal that decompiles into a QR code of this song.
Just saying advance rick roll in my pov would be
Hacking every TV .. mobile in another word simply the setelites and Playing thiz:
Well, I made a rickroll of Nick Offerman, and called it a “nickroll”
Only found your channel like half an hour ago, but your level of dedication to your content is just insane. Big shout out!
This is just relaxing to hear it's doesn't sound like a Rick roll any more
Yes
it does sound like a rick roll wdym
@@quaianthegrimreaper7556 yeah, but then later on its no
@@trueffetbysyqual for me the whole song sounds like a rickroll bcuz of the sublime and lyrics
Sounda like the country song that my mom listens to
when the Anglo-Saxons rickrolled the Normans at the battle of Hasting and somehow won
A lot of trolling
snap back to reality
R/woooosh
@@korl0ch298 Sir this Wendy's not reddit
What the Anglo-Saxon bards played when they tricked the Romano-Britons into giving them land in exchange for peace
That's an experience my ears won't forget in a hurry!. Great to hear the modern classics get retroed via old languages!.
All the other Saxon kings: *conquered by Vikings*
Alfred the Great:
Based Wessex
Alfred was such a Chad.
He is one of the most underrated kings of all time.
Sadly Normans were stronger
@@lolasdm6959 not really, had the norwegians kept out William would of remained just a bastard.
Hey! Glad I and the discord could help you make this! This one turned out great especially after the other one.
Ayy thank you so much Eadwine :) your help was truly invaluable with the making of this cover
I am the gogogogo
haha 69
English
Beowulf to wealtheow after his boast: "never gonna let you down"
I never knew rick rolling has been a western cultural tradition for so many centuries. Ahh, to be a part of this is an honour!
"My jarl! King Ælfred sends a letter of surrender!"
"Really? I shall read it out loud at our feast to celebrate our victory!"
The letter:
Thy Odin Rekrol Them Back!
"Þy sċalt payeþ for ðis"
Fun fact: Jarl = Earl in English
@@pelagiushipbone7968 cewl
@@pelagiushipbone7968 oh
The Old English is like finnish and german in one language.
The way "understand" is pronounced sounds like ralli-English (basically English with a Finnish pronounciation)
You mean swedish and german
Finnish is in a different language family
@@jer8036 The pronounciation does sound kinda Finnish in some parts though
They belong to the Germanic family that's why
and a bit of latin actually
This is a masterpiece. Gives me so much nostalgia. Feels like the Old English times were just yesterday.
Really brings it to life
hol' up
how old are you if you can remember old english times? maybe you're from the future where time machines exist?
Maybe you're 800 years old
(I've got no idea if that was correct).
@@alfiemillersharp english got its french influence and therefore became modern english slowly in 1066 when william of normandy invaded england so around 1000 to 1100 years old.
I love the Latin and olde English covers you make. This is also, by the way, the most creative Rickroll I've ever seen xD
My only criticism is that you should have titled it something like “strawberry fields forever in olde English” for it to be a true Rick roll. Other than that it was great!
Just write the title in old English
_strēawberġe feldas for ǣfre_
@@turmuthoer
stēawberge feldan fer ævre*
@@WellPreparedTreeFrog ðes titol on englisc
@@SamTheMan12 OE never used letter v for the v sound. It used it for u/w like Latin, i.e. IVLIVS CAESAR(Julius Caesar).
A rickrolled Sutton Hoo helmet on a loop. Brilliant. My daughter's partner is an archeologist. They've also survived Covid lockdown together without company in the countryside. Sums up how I saw him grin at her today. Roflmao. Bless you.
That Time I got Isekai-ed as a Bard, so I Rick Roll Everyone in the Kingdom.
And thus Old AEngrish was born
And that Bard's song became a folktale.
As a german i can hear the similarities. In the phrase "nā ne forlǣte ic þē" the "forlǣte" would be "verlasse" (leave) in german and the "ic" even sounds like "ich" (I) but a little bit more harsh. "þē" would be "dich" (you) in german. 🇬🇧🇩🇪
There are also a few more that sound quite alike.
Such as: (ġe)lēoge essentially being gelogen or lügen (lied, to lie).
@@Sherolox modern english pretty much lost that ge- prefix, but the other germanic languages still use it.
Vortigern: trust me, those Saxon mercenaries are totally reliable. Look, they just sent a video to explain how they'll help us against the Picts!
Lmao this deserves more likes
“We’ll never give you up, we’ll never fail you-“
“Actually, curse them. I’d rather die.”
I can't speak for people such as King Arthur,Cadwallon ap Cadfan or Vortigern but to me this is one of the best Rick Rolls ever!
“Your Majesty! We have a telegram based on the attack the from the Romans!”
“You have my permission to speak the message!”
“Nā me forgife iė pē…”
“Dammit! He got me again!”
*ne
*iċ
*þē
-yes im a nerd-
But funny noneþeless
@@CommonCommiestudios wouldn’t it be “noneðeless”?
@@simplesack_ Maybe it would from a more modern point of view, but I believe that voiceless fricatives /f θ s ʃ x/ were voiced between vowels in Old English, notice how "forgife" and "forsċrife" have their first f pronounced as /f/ and the second one as /v/
þē
@@ItsPianik legend
You should genuinely make little dark age in latin
Its on the way too! Don't worry :)
@@the_miracle_aligner You are my favourite deputy
Wait, ecclesiastical or vulgar?
@@trolleymouse Classical hopefully :D
@@the_miracle_aligner YES
Again this was on my recommended page and it’s so weird I just had to watch it and I did, lately my recommended page has been so strange
This makes it sadder. He’s telling his lover that he will do anything for her and will never leave her side.
That's actually very wholesome
how do you know he means her? 👀
That's the original's meaning, too.
@@quaianthegrimreaper7556 Oh shi-
@@CheesyIsSalteh yup
Rīca Ēastlēah (Ryka ashtleah) is my favourite artist, can't wait for him to come to the bar tomorrow and sing another one of his songs!
Let's get some ale and listen to Ryka the Bard!
Fun Fact: Chinggis Khanii Magtaal was NOT written by Rīca Ēastlēah.
Ho broth'r, i just hath sent a bard to thee to playeth a song. It’s very much valorous, i bethink you’ll liketh it.
Wæw, wat ā vérē grāt söng
ðolian ûs of pro ic oferhîeran hîe
That} was bâm torne ðearl sealm! You âlecgan elra songs?
Thou dare bestow us with a treacherous Rick roll? Such tedious lyrics shall never be suffered from the likes of thee!
Thou shall be rewarded a handsome rewardth
"Forscrīfe" which sounded like "for sheeva" or "for sheeba" was what make me wanna come back to here time and time again 😭😭💘💖
ok?
You can much better hear the germanic roots in old English than modern.
The issue with this video is that some of the Old English pronunciations are slightly off. For example "me" with the macron over it was pronounced "may" in Anglo Saxon, but the lead singer pronounced it "me" here.
that's what several hundred years of French influence does to a language.
@@HermitKing731 And everyone else that invaded. A lot of modern English is extremely similar or exact to a Latin word too.
it was weird like i was reading it as if it was some sort of icelandic language.like the german roots ARE VERY VISIBLE in old english
@@Shinku_no_sanbun AFAK, the grammar and basic words are still the same as Germanic
Imagine being a Viking ready to raid a monastery and as you approach the shore you hear this.
Instead of loot you get a ricaroll
Bonus points for including the literal translation. It's fascinating to see how the concepts from the original song translate
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That's the great thing, the song's aren't just translations but also localisations.
I’m speechless! You really can find anything on the internet! ❤
imagine him in a castle and preforming this for the monarchs
Automatically gets the Princess
The background looks like a castle
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE .
A castle would be historically inaccurate
As the jester preforms this, the hardened king sheds a single tear.
my eyes and ears have never experienced something as impeccable as this masterpiece.
You are the powerhouse of the cell
the cheese is under the sauce
you will be the sauce
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE .
I haven't as far as songs being changed.
props to the cameraman who went back in time to film this masterpiece!
Props indeed
People who are trying to learn Old English: Oh no, have I got rickrolled again
Actually its hard to learn old english
@@kaviorowskyy3785 Well that's to be expected, it died out centuries ago.
@@erenyeager3829 actually the last time it was spoken was almost a millenia ago
Actually it just got spoken
@ nice shut
Sounds like a mixture between German and Icelandic.
That's perfect.
That's Saxon for ya.
It is. German, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, and Frisian, I believe.
No Swedish or Danish though. I would have recognised that. :)
But the vikings at that time spoke languages that sounded much like Icelandic. :)
And the English language has borrowed a lot of words from the Vikings, Saxons and later French.
@@caligulawellington3171 English is a Germanic language that incorporated many different other languages early. But I believe Old English also included older Swedish and Danish. I may be wrong, though.
Being Dutch I can hear that Old Dutch and Old English are closely related: words like ‘gelogen’ (lie) and forskrive (voorschrijven: order, prescribe and related meanings) forlæte (verlaten: to leave) come up.
Isn’t “gelogen” a word still used in modern German? Lügen-log-gelogen is the conjugation of the verb “to lie”.
It seems surprisingly consistent throughout all Germanic languages 🎉
@@wilgefortisohlin568 it’s used both in German and in Dutch
You might be interested to hear that the "ge" prefix found in Germanic languages survived in some dialects of English. The consonant has been lost, so it is now found as "a-going" and "a-speaking" and the like.
it didn't even connect to my mind to compare it to dutch, and i'm also natively dutch (more specifically flemish, and i think it's related to frisian, so makes sense that it doesn't sound quite how my southern speech sounds)
@@SuperExodian oh Vlaams is interessant! Ik wil dat leren.
I was expecting something like, "We hath knoweth one another for a long period" but this is so much better
i can't believe you done this
This is the only Rickroll I will accept.
Also may I suggest Centuries in Classical Latin as a future video idea? Love your work as always!💕
YES, WE NEED THAT!!
I'm just going to recommend going to Rick Astley's account and listening to the slow/pianoforte version. It is just the most emotional song, and the dissonance makes you feels sad the internet is ending.
It is a trip.
Also he did a bunch of excellent covers over Covid that are worth a listen.
Has Rick Astley seen this? He seems like a pretty chill dude who would be interested.
i did im rick
@@memingshat3207 very much the real rick on a real alt account
Rik Æsþlē
@@L1M.L4M, *Ric Æsþlē
Rîç Æslēÿ
Fascinating! Awesome! One wouldn’t know it’s English. Thanks! Happy holidays! 🌞🎅🏻🎉
Its insane to hear how much English has changed through centuries. Fascinating stuff, and those bardcore videos are amazing.
As a 16th century king, I can certify this is a classic.
though it's like the english of the 10th or 11th century, iirc.
As a 10th century pheasant I can conform this master piece we had
@@thehi3774 glad you liked it Slave. (Pun intended)
@@thehi3774 u meant peasant??
Yes
There was a line of the song that sounded like “Nanny wiped stew for me”
1:12
Noice.
omg it does 😭✋🏻
not to sound like the average youtube commenter but that played the second after i finished reading this
I had literally just gotten to that part of the song as I read this, lol
Honestly the melody works great with medieval instrumentation. If I heard it in the background of some fantasy game trailer I wouldn’t think twice about it.
Anglo saxon languague: evolving peacefully
William the conqueror: let me introduce myself
The Vikings would have something to say about "peaceful"
Sus
@@Nubin2000 Eventually Vikings and Saxons started living in peace (talking about common folks)
I actually half expected this to be the original music video and the most meta rick roll of all time.
Alternate title: How to get Rick rolled in an ancient style.
@king what
@king I am not clicking that
@@Onimusha_Commander notice that they put youtu.be and not youtube. Its an IP grabber.
I@@isaacdanoob2434 I know I did not click that
As a huge history nerd who loves languages, I love how Ancient English sounds so different than the modern one, but some words can be identified. It just shows the roots of an entire language clear as day, it's like digging up an ancient tomb.