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Mirie it is while sumer ilast - English Medieval Song

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  • Unknown, 13th century England.
    Mirie it is while sumer ilast
    with fugheles song.
    oc nu necheth windes blast
    and weder strong.
    And ich with wel michel wrong
    soregh and murne and fast.
    Sung by: • Vocantus - Mirie it is...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 64

  • @aakarshmaurya2265
    @aakarshmaurya2265 Рік тому +314

    So ironically beautiful that oldest surviving song from England is actually a rant on bad weather

    • @OscarOSullivan
      @OscarOSullivan Рік тому +23

      There is a reason Christmas day was moved from spring to the middle of winter

    • @saudade7842
      @saudade7842 11 місяців тому +20

      I mean, it is English

    • @UNITDW
      @UNITDW 11 місяців тому +29

      @@OscarOSullivanChristmas has always been celebrated on Dec 25 for as long as it’s been a holiday, it’s based on Jesus being 6 months younger than John the Baptist and John being born on either the 24th or 25th of June depending on calculations based on his father’s priestly caste and what day he would’ve been working in the temple - coupled with the fact that the Apostles knew Jesus and knew Mary for even longer and their disciples, the Apostolic Fathers, celebrated Christmas on this day. The whole Christmas was in spring thing is a myth.

    • @liviemillie6455
      @liviemillie6455 9 місяців тому +7

      I wonder if it was more than that- I could see a lot of symbolism behind this stanza if it was indeed the opening to something else (and it really piques the poetically minded person's curiosity what this could be). But it's hilarious this is what survived.

    • @RowanAckerman
      @RowanAckerman 7 місяців тому +4

      Does it predate Sumer is icumen in?

  • @sakkra93
    @sakkra93 6 місяців тому +70

    A *strong* part of me wishes we still spoke like this. This sounds really beautiful to my English ears, a language of my forefathers lost to me :(

    • @markworrall9940
      @markworrall9940 3 місяці тому +4

      I feel your pain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @tateranus4365
      @tateranus4365 2 місяці тому +7

      I'm American and I almost wish some people spoke this way.

    • @cmeadowcroft2097
      @cmeadowcroft2097 2 місяці тому +3

      I have been chasing this language for decades I am no scholar but I have tried to learn a bit as time goes on. The real bad thing about Old English is that you are denied forbidden to have a two-way dictionary Oxford press insists that it will only ever produce One Way dictionary from old to now remember Old English is the foundation of Modern English how more important cannot be as opposed to dead useless languages like Latin which is in two way along with Scottish Gaelic Irish Gaelic and of course Welsh😡😡😡

    • @ImperiumRomanum476
      @ImperiumRomanum476 2 місяці тому

      This is not Old English. This is Middle English.​@@cmeadowcroft2097

    • @Heroesflorian
      @Heroesflorian Місяць тому +2

      @@cmeadowcroft2097 old English is way more "dead useless" than Latin, though... I'd have agreed with your comment had you not written that last sentence basically betraying your own line of argument while also randomly hating on various other languages... shame on you

  • @heathertxuk
    @heathertxuk 10 місяців тому +35

    This is absolutely beautiful ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😊

  • @utkuzor2723
    @utkuzor2723 Місяць тому +10

    Bir dilin evrimi, gelişimi ne kadar enteresan. Sanki günümüz İngilizcesine göre daha müzikal.. Ve şarkıcının sesi muhteşem, insanın kalbine işliyor

  • @medved7683
    @medved7683 Рік тому +65

    An oddly beautiful song.

    • @sakkra93
      @sakkra93 6 місяців тому +7

      Nothing oddly about it, just beautiful. Germanic languages in general are secretly beautiful.

    • @greg_4201
      @greg_4201 2 дні тому

      ''Oddly''?
      ''Secretly'"?
      What's wrong with you both? 😂

  • @AshtonWest-tf7gj
    @AshtonWest-tf7gj Рік тому +57

    very interesting that i can understand alot of the song even though i speak no medieval english

    • @timverrecchia1654
      @timverrecchia1654 Рік тому +28

      The language is middle English. Modern day the closest living language is West Frisian, a Low German language still spoken in the province of Fryslân (Friesland), in the northeastern Netherlands. Dutch, German to.

    • @rahjah6958
      @rahjah6958 7 місяців тому +7

      @@timverrecchia1654I’ve seen frisians have basic conversations with old English speakers

    • @sakkra93
      @sakkra93 6 місяців тому +2

      I'm fortunate through my admittedly limited knowledge of Old English and German to be able understand this song of my forefathers.

    • @Hugh_Morris
      @Hugh_Morris 6 місяців тому +1

      It's still English mate just an older version

    • @Heroesflorian
      @Heroesflorian Місяць тому +1

      @@Hugh_Morris that's about as useful as saying "modern English is still French mate just a Germanized dialect of it"

  • @JP-wt8jg
    @JP-wt8jg 4 місяці тому +15

    Many thanks for this Video. I am german. Its so interesting: oc nu necheth windes blast. Modern german: Doch nun naht windiger Sturm. Many greets ❤

    • @amerdoom6491
      @amerdoom6491 3 місяці тому +2

      Yes, my friend, and as an English person from England, you are considered my relative because we are both from Germanic people

    • @DacianAstilean-Styles-en8hp
      @DacianAstilean-Styles-en8hp 29 днів тому

      @@amerdoom6491same

  • @markworrall9940
    @markworrall9940 3 місяці тому +8

    Ah! The music of thy Kin, it hits right where other songs in modernity can not-it is pure, majestic, and sublime, while also paying homage to the age old English attitude toward the weather haha thank you for a wonderful share. Mé lícaþ þæt cargealdor! Ƿes þú hál bróþor! Íċ þancie þé. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

    • @tateranus4365
      @tateranus4365 2 місяці тому

      it ain't just the UK that constantly complains about poor weather, people in the South and especially Midwest complain about it just as much if not more than most Brits, I should know, I have lived in the South and Midwest for many years and also am friends with quite a few Brits.

    • @markworrall9940
      @markworrall9940 2 місяці тому

      @tateranus4365 Yer I can understand that though with temperatures you Southerners get down there, 't'is maddening weather, but in England in the rurals, that is, its pretty much a tradition in conversation. Most people open up with "f*cking weather, ei?" "O' tell me about it, can't wait for the summer"- and when it gets hot and I mean over 15 degrees is warm enough to complain over here. Everywhere I go in England we all constantly complain about the weather, hot or cold hahaha. That's all I was saying, is that even after 1500 years nothing has changed, haha.

    • @tateranus4365
      @tateranus4365 2 місяці тому +1

      @@markworrall9940 the part of the US I live in currently (southern Ohio) gets over 100 degrees F (37.7C) and in the winter gets to be like 10 degrees F (-12C) and on top of that the humidity can stay over 80% for months on end.

  • @theodorekaczynski8147
    @theodorekaczynski8147 7 місяців тому +19

    I like how, if you know German, you can see some parallels. Like “fugheles” and “Vogel”. The fact “nicht” means night is stupid, though our “no” probably comes from the same root as the French “non”

    • @ub3rfr3nzy94
      @ub3rfr3nzy94 7 місяців тому +17

      Why is it stupid? Nicht/Nacht. Nicht is pretty common across indo-european languages. It's even the same in Greek.

    • @sakkra93
      @sakkra93 6 місяців тому +3

      This was when the English peasantry still spoke similar to their Old Saxon forefathers from Germany.

    • @mitteos
      @mitteos 5 місяців тому +1

      Nich in Ukrainian it night.

    • @tfan2222
      @tfan2222 5 місяців тому +9

      Modern English “no” comes from “none” which comes from Old English “nān”, coming from “ne ān.” Modern German “nein” is formed from the same combination of words, just from Old High German.

    • @garybartlett8818
      @garybartlett8818 2 місяці тому +3

      I knew immediately that “fugheles” was birds, because I knew that "Vogel” meant "bird" in German. The word still exists in modern English of course, but it has morphed into "fowl" - chickens, ducks, geese, und so weiter .:

  • @KingCharlesIII_
    @KingCharlesIII_ Рік тому +19

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤

  • @OrthoKarter
    @OrthoKarter Рік тому +12

    Great!

  • @Trollface28382
    @Trollface28382 Рік тому +14

    Nice

  • @loukoumi624
    @loukoumi624 6 місяців тому +4

    feel something special . I don't konw why.

  • @user-qi1jo8gj8f
    @user-qi1jo8gj8f 6 місяців тому +9

    I, like this song

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought 5 місяців тому +1

      You should check out ian pittaway's more accurate version

  • @zhajikun5309
    @zhajikun5309 2 місяці тому +1

    I was born in 1266 and it is very beautiful

  • @Hopewell51
    @Hopewell51 Місяць тому

    I remember when this first came out. 😢

  • @gabrielileri5799
    @gabrielileri5799 2 місяці тому

    Wonderful

  • @mariar4431
    @mariar4431 2 місяці тому

    Love this.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 7 місяців тому +1

    Wow.

  • @tonyoliver2167
    @tonyoliver2167 6 місяців тому +7

    Miri it is a whil sumer ilast withe fugheles song, oc nu neheth windes blast and weder strong, aie aie what this nicht is long, and ich withe welle michele wrong, serrowe and murne and fast.
    One of my favourite medieval English songs along with "Sumer is a cumen in" and "worldes bliss ne last night throwe" the latter being sung by John Fleagle. I encourage anyone to check out his works.

  • @maximilienrobespierre6276
    @maximilienrobespierre6276 15 днів тому

    this song is from the reign of Henry III (1207-1272)

  • @RandomVidsforthought
    @RandomVidsforthought 5 місяців тому +5

    Ian Pittaway's version is more accurate.

    • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
      @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek 5 місяців тому

      Why?

    • @giw_jones
      @giw_jones 3 місяці тому

      ​@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekStructure and pronunciation. This version is meant to be a little more "poppy."

  • @Lorde_Prime
    @Lorde_Prime 2 місяці тому +1

    Es is between Deutsch und English))))

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 7 місяців тому +2

    I have a Hardback DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of MEDIEVAL LIFE.
    Discover medieval Europe - from life in a country manor to the streets of a developing town.

  • @QUEfrang
    @QUEfrang 3 місяці тому +1

    this sounds like modern englis hbut less latin