Vocantus - Mirie it is while sumer ilast 

don't let tradition cloud your judgement either

@@dielfonelletab8711 "People praise the future because it is blank and featureless; they are afraid of the past because it is full of real and living things" - G.K. Chesterton

@@OccidentalExpression the past sucked

@@dielfonelletab8711 care to elaborate?

@@OccidentalExpression not really. read literally any history book

doraz na sovinec na lukostrelecky turnaj vetsinou ji hrajeme :)

​@@svacar moc daleko. To je na opačné straně republiky xd

Хорошим делом занимаетесь. Молодец.

Je i škola historie šermu z Polska, dle starých rukopisu krále, univerzita, zde na RU-vid

I'd agree, but a fairy book type one.

If she was a 12 th century English princess she'd be DECKED OUT in precious metals, broaches, colours and circlets. These people are dressed as commoners

The folds of her dress :)

These folks are singing a medieval English song. Medieval Polish has nothing to do with it.

@@billboisvert8307yep

English dont sing even english songs anymore. They are taught to hate themselves, as most western europeans are.

This is a polish group singing a medieval English song. The person was imagining if it were the other way around.

@@billboisvert8307 This group is Polish.

"BuT tHeRe WaSn'T eVeN cOlOuR iN wOrLd WaR tWo!" ;)

Not to mention leather and studs..

well actually, common people couldn´t afford to wear colours like these...

They had some quite sophisticated sound equipment in the middle ages....

@@lucianacantares1yes they could 💀 most dyes were made from readily available plants that u didnt have to buy to procure

Nonsense

Totally true! It's mindblowing how they said "sumer" exactly and "nehereth" - nöcheret - as we do in Swiss German

+ "nicht" omg put an a and it becomes Nacht (German). Or alter it to ni(c->g)ht.

This is a song that was written in medieval England.

@@electricroxy Its the only *surviving* non-liturgical song, since it was only found in an old French manuscript. It is entirely possible that there were hundreds of such songs which were just not written down, or lost to history, which is a tragedy

@@johnroach9026 Plus there is other non-liturgical stuff too, also in Medieval French and German. Look for example for stuff from Guillaume de Machaut (14th century) or Walther von der Vogelweide (late 12th early 13th century).

It's still really excellent to go to hear local bands playing music that enthralls and entertains! Look up local bands, promoters and venues and go have a great time ❤️

​@@johnroach9026surely not. What about 'summer is icumen in'?

How did I go through life not knowing this? 😜 Is this one of those things that's common knowledge, yet, I somehow never learned about it?? I've had a few other "news to me!" facts pop up like this throughout my life, and it's always such a joy to learn new things!! This song paints an entire picture in my mind. The setting, the people, the feeling in the air. Sadly, like one hundred years later, much of Europe and Asia would be decimated by the Black Plague.

@@La_Ru-yg8es This song in Middle English was (I believe) discovered in a book cover about 100 years ago. The song, Sumer Is Icumen In, is also from about the same time period c. 13th century. No one really knows which came first. Coincidentally both songs are about summer, and this was during the time of the Medieval Warm Period. Summers could be rather nice, and apparently medieval people celebrated the nice days as long as they could.

Always thought it was 'Sumer Is Icumen In'

@@pyewackett5 True. They appear about the same time and roughly the same stage of Middle English.

Thanks for posting the lyrics and translation. As a mother tongue English speaker learning Swedish, it’s interesting to see the strong links to Swedish and Norwegian from the Viking influence, such as ‘michel’ for ‘much’ (mycket in Swedish) and ‘soregh’ for ‘sorrow’ (sorg in Swedish). Personally, I would use birdsong instead of fowl’s song for the modern English translation, but it’s a matter of taste!

Middle English samples are actually quite rare because French was the prestigious language spoken in England at the time. So this song is really quite a treat to peer into what contemporary English was like, before the great vowel shift or printing at Westminster, and much closer to German than it is today.

Noob to the history of this era, here! When you say mid medieval times, approximately which decade/century would this be? (I doubt it could be narrowed down much further! I mean, it's not like we had the Billboard Top 100 in the Middle Ages.) 😁😜 This is a beautiful, soul stirring, uplifting piece of music. And, I love how times change, but human emotions remain a constant, our connection throughout spacetime. I'm imagining a maid going about her grueling daily work in the 1200s or whatever, and a group of minstrels just happens down the street, playing this piece, perhaps lifting her out of her drudgery for a few shining, transcendant moments. Music has always done this, will always do this. It's up there with beauty and love as one of God's greatest gifts to man. 🙏🙏

I believe the other verses are lost to the ravages of time. We're very lucky to have the first verse at least. This song is about the passing of time, change, and making merry while the sun shines. Have no doubt that winter was a very harsh time in the mediaeval period of the 13th century. We have it a lot easier nowadays but have less sense of community and our connection with the land and nature is less with every passing decade.

​@@La_Ru-yg8es The Medieval era lasted from about 450 to 1485. Though the song itself, being written in early Middle English dates to around the mid 1200's.

@@BloxianLegend I'm pretty sure it was recovered from another book, which used old vellum manuscripts to construct the book. Deconstructing these has given us a lot of fragments of manuscripts, although it would take a miracle for another verse to be discovered

Obviously everybody knows that

@@MTF--uu8kb Not many Portuguese people know that.

@@MTF--uu8kb i did not

obrigada pela informação

Thank you! I was unsure which decade or even century this was from. Appreciation for the history tidbits so freely given to those of us who are just learning about this era. 💖

Heyy fella By your name I can tell you're a Muslim I'm a Muslim too in here! This song is a banger tho

@@neno9975 Yes Iam muslim ... Iam a fan of medieval music

@@abdullahsaleh1075 I'm glad to know I'm not the only one XD Tho Mirie It Is, is the only song I love the most!

So, I subscribed.

看波兰柯叔来的吧😀

@@kamilnowak1930对啊，很喜欢中世纪欧洲的文化。