Are you kidding me? Lol Hilldegard Von blinging thinks that using thee and thou will magically transform a song into Middle English. This is true bard core ❤️👍
Steve the vagabond and silly linguist yeah! But I do like the idea of bardcore expanding to represent other languages of the medieval period. Hence why I was excited for this 💜💜
thank you for taking the effort to not just shakespearify the lyrics and be done with it, as an amateur sorta linguist, its actually really nice to see
Between having English as a first language and German as a secondary language, these are surprisingly easy to understand. Love the work, keep it up mate.
Thanks! My dream is to make songs in every old language :D I am just fascinated with how language changes over time. Making songs in old languages feels like I am breathing life into them. Listening to this makes it feel like you are a listening to a medieval bard performing in his native language :D
@@stevevagabond I have the same fascination. Went to college for linguistic anthropology just because of how much I love the morphology of language over time. Its always cool to see how the most commonly used words are almost identical to the ones used today. Or how different related languages arrived at different words for the same thing (English using "read", German using "lesen", but German uses "raten" which English changed from advised to read).
I think KJV is Renaissance English given that James Stuart reigned after the English Renaissance of Elizabeth I plus the English at the time before King James and Elizabeth I already evolved.
@@matthewkreps3352 The KJV-only obsession is rich considering that James was gay or at least bisexual. And the original protestant radicals who influenced all subsequent ultraconservatives, the Puritans, despised the KJV as an Anglican book, preferring their Geneva bibles.
Great idea and cover :D And English has changed a lot, but still I can understand some (unlike Let it go in Old English, which is veeery different) ;) Still, this one sounds more Germanic and words are pronounced like they're written, it reminds me of when I was starting learning English and I read words as they are written sometimes XD
I love Middle English and Old English. I have to ask, is the Middle English used here accurate? or is it more like a personal guess? I'm asking since I have been looking into how the language functions and such.
I based it on the language used in Canterbury Tales so its as close as we can get. There are no living people who speak Middle English so we don't know how people from the 1300s would have phrased things exactly but we can learn a lot about the language from literature. But remember that literature is only one kind of language. The way we write is a bit different to how we speak but the method I used to make this song is about as close as we can get :)
@@stevevagabond epic! I love Middle English and wanted to start speaking it just for the heck of it, but was unsure about the phrasing etc. Thanks man!
Hildegard is great but I prefer this since you actually sing in forms of English which were used during the medieval period (I'm pretty sure Hildegard uses Early Modern but it may be Middle if you know please correct me)
Its definitely Early Modern. English settled down a lot spelling wise after the invention of the printing press in the 1400s. By Shakespeares time the language was very similar to our language now. The language changed a huge amount in the years 1000 to 1500 but less in thr subsequent 500 years
