@@the_miracle_aligner not sure what you mean since the battle at the standford brua was still during Anglo Saxon england, so before the Normans eventually mixxed creating middle english
tip next time you do a song with a known epic ending as Freebird, animate the image then an put the patreons in the last seconds so we can enjoy the song without the extra sound off
Just imagining a bunch of soldiers and mercenaries in old London getting into a tavern brawl the instant that solo kicks in and I'm dying from laughter.
@MasterOfCydonia oh God, someone needs to remake that whole scene with a couple medieval guards trying to quell a massive drunk peseant brawl in a tavern!!
God, the whole story of “Kingsmen” in a medieval setting would be wild to see actually…wait, how would they get the cellphone signal thing? Bah, whatever, it’d still be interesting!
The Battle that saved the West... where Zrinksi with a force of 3,000 men he was able to hastily gather to himself held off the Ottomans force of over 100,000 for months before 700 finally sally forth for one final charge. Held up the Ottomans for 5 months with the Sultan dying in the siege camp and killed more than 30,000 before being defeated... depleted that entire Ottoman invasion into Europe making it a spent force by the time it got to Vienna.
@nationalsocialism3504 or Polish forces, including the Winged Hussars, breaking the Ottoman Empire's 60 day siege of Vienna in 1683. 23,000 Polish soldiers against 160,000 led by Grand Vizier Mustafa. The Empire doesn't have much luck against Polish forces.
Oh, you’re a heavily armed and armored knight who has spent their life training in the art of war? Have fun with this steel ball that will either miss wildly or send you directly to god.
@@semi-useful5178 Were they really not? They definitely were by the 1600s, I've seen a cavalry cuirass with a massive(not cannon ball massive but quite large) bullet hole through it from the English Civil War era. Was the velocity of these projectiles really that much worse with earlier type of gunpowder weapons?
POV: You're a knight resting in an inn preparing for pilgrimage to Canterbury tomorrow and some guy named Chaucer came over to ask you what you did in Poitiers in the year of our Lord 1356
Gotta give those Arabs credit... they are all about to die & they are still charging forward. They had to have fucked up bad to get themselves in such an unwinnable position as to be countercharging Europeans... Arabs on Arabian horses would always get overrun by knights on Perchons
You stand before the court of the king accused of breaking all the laws of both man and God. How doth thy plead? Your grace, the bard was playing Free Bird.
I got to wondering how many generations it has been. The language called "Middle English" gradually ended around the year 1500, so about 520 years ago. At 25 years to the generation, that's 20 generations. If you're generation 0, your grandpa is generation -2, so generation -20 would have your great^18 grandpa.
The Old English of the Anglo-Saxons, and by extension its descendant Middle English, were basically Germanic languages, at least until the Norman nobility and thier French rubbed off down onto the commoners. Even today, a lot of English and German words are very similar. In particular, animals names are still very close (Kuh, Schaf, Schwein, etc), but the meats of those animals are French derived (bœuf,mouton, porc), as it was the french speaking nobles who got to name the meat.
Yeah, but spelling-wise, it looks so much like the kind of English you read in 17th to 19th century poetry. It's so interesting how it can sound like one language and look like another.
@@xerxeskingofking English still is a Germanic language - its grammar evolved in a continuum from Old English to Modern English, with minimal influence from French in that regard; and of course, the most common words in English are still overwhelmingly Germanic in origin. Although it's true that a huge amount of words were borrowed into English from Norman French, further massive non-Germanic borrowings have happened in modern times through scientific Latin and Greek - in total, larger than what was borrowed from French. This song is meant to be pretty much Chaucer's English, which had already borrowed many words from French. You can see some in the song: remembre, chaunge, places, sentment, greve. Still, most of the vocabulary is incidentally Germanic. The song has a fairly simple narrative, so it mostly sticks to fairly common words.
In medieval Germany, "Vogelfrei sein" (literal translation: "to be free as a bird") meant being an outlaw. It indicated that the laws did not apply to you and your safety anymore, meaning anyone could do anything to you without consequence, but also everyone was allowed to arrest you and turn you in to the guards. Nobody was allowed to let you into their home or help you otherwise, because you should live 'as free as a bird'.
In England, they call that being made 'Wolfshead', because not only did any peasant have the right to kill wolves on sight, they'd be paid for the pelt by whoever owned the land they lived on. Wolves were a common threat to livestock and so it was in the common good that they were killed.
@@eisleyism ...It was another example of how an expression related to medieval criminality affected the development of language. It made literally as much sense as what was said.
@@eisleyism It makes perfect sense. In Medieval Germany outlaws were called "as free as a bird". In Medieval England outlaws were called "Wolfshead". He just posted another interesting, and similar, example of medieval sayings for outlaws.
Usually I'm not much for midi instruments, but the way you use them is just so FUN. You really push them to get a great sound. And the idea of a computer desperately imitating a Medieval instrument imitating a ripping guitar solo just tickles me greatly.
This is using pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation. The Great Vowel Shift greatly changed English vowels to less-resemble its continental relatives, German, Dutch, Frisian, and Low German/Saxon. Northern English and Scots, until quite recently, experienced less of the Great Vowel Shift; so it's fair to compare it to Dutch and Scottish accents.
@@HrothgarLareowyup, I think about that phonetic shift way more than a non-linguist ever should (EDIT: which includes me, FYI, my hobby is delightfully ill-advised)
When Brother Maynard hands you the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and says thou shalt count to three, no more no less. Though shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be to three. And there was much rejoicing
Yeah. The stuff Shakespeare wrote with is early modern English and proper Old English is more similar to German than English we would even remotely recognize with our modern English recognition.
@@Andrew-mo9gp Honestly, I think he has enough Latin songs. I'd like to hear Last Stand, but in Byzantine Greek but make it about Konstantinos Palaiologos and his last stand defending Constantinople.
Hi! A time ago, I translated Now And Then by The Beatles into old English. If you are interested in covering the song, you can use my translation. It should be available on Lyricstranslate. Thanks!
The Latin alphabet was fitted to Latin, and English used it roughly like Latin did, until the Great Vowel Shift. The words changed but the spellings stayed.
I'm also astounded that there have been different buildings, pants and vehicles over the years. I wonder if it's different bugs or if all the bugs are the same ones from 800 yrs ago
Single-handedly one of the best remixes of any song I’ve ever seen in my life. Gonna blast this while playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance when I get home.
Behold; I hath made goodly modifications to yon amplification artifice, Lo, the dial proceedeth to one-and-ten. Forsooth, why didst ye not make the position of ten more affluent in volume? THIS ONE PROCEEDETH TO ONE-AND-TEN.
I played this to my English book. Now it's Geoeffry Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales.🤪 Plus @ around 4:45 I'm m imagining a strung out on mead medieval version of Jenny perched precariously atop a tower balcony before her foot slips and she sinks onto the floor whilst far away, Forrest pines for her.😢
This is cool. I didn't expect to like it as much as I do. Now I know if I ever got sent back to the Middle English Period I could understand them, mostly.
@@Hiljaa_ It's a medieval royalty/aristocracy thing, you're probably too much of a peasant to get it (Royals only married other royals, so they all ended up related to each other. Yes, incest was a problem, the Hapsburgs really suffered from that.)
@@samuelmellars7855 Eh, when you are a peasant who has lived in the same village as his ancestors for hundreds or thousands of years, it's not actually that far off. Hapsburgs were taken to an extreme though.
@@donkeysaurusrex7881I like the Jay Leno commercial where he goes mad max kiss my ass where him and a bunch of ppl he hired are all driving in the desert to no destination and for no other reason than to film a commercial for his show about his cars. I was like yeah but he shoulda said Immortan Joe kiss my ass
@@flannigan7956 always took it more as he's backing out of a committed relationship. "Let's take this relationship to the next level" *Sharp inhale* "I just remembered I left my stove on... In California so I gotta go. It's been real."
