Have you heard of Anglish? I think you’d enjoy it. Most of it only includes changing syntax, but others go further and bring back things such as the case and gender system.

@@tfan2222 I certainly have, I used to translate Wikipedia articles into Anglish on "The Anglish Moot" lel

I have a small question... i think, u know the tv-series "vikings", this history/fantasy-mix about Ragnarr Loðbrók. How close is the anglo-saxxon English, used in this product, to the real in the 9th century? The funfact is, that i understand many parts of it (i dont need to read the translation on screen), maybe because i grow up with the rhine franconian dialect of my hometown, i my youth, it was nearly only spoken by old people on markets or in Pubs, as a "gutter language". Today the teach it in school, but the modern version, is more similar to Official German and not like the dialect, that i have learned from my vader, market traders, riverboatmen, and barmen. I ask this, because i have much more problems with ur anglo-saxxo english.

As French, I side with Guillaume on this one, but respect to the defeated Harold for his brave resistance

*Somewhere in Heaven* Harald:Harold..... Harold: Wait how are you here? Harald:Brownie Points for Building Church's and Fighting Heathen Countrymen Harold: I see Harald: and let me guess died by arrow Harold:Died by arrow Harald:The Bastard is King then? Harold: Yeah.. Harald: Damn....

>Falls to a false rout, the oldest trick in the book

there

Yes mate.

Proceeds to lose

@@AmonGus-hw6sp ambush and the raid are the oldest tactics known

Mate, it was 1066 we should be over it by now. Ultimately conquest is a part of human history. We conquered the island from the Welsh 600 years before, by deceitful and traitorous tactics. Certainly if every country we had ever conquered resented us forever we should never have peace. So why should we resent the French for something that happened 1000 years ago? Even the French came from Germany to conquer that country from the Latinised Celtic population. Ultimately a national identity based on revanchism is just pathetic and unworthy of life. It took centuries for us to heal the rift between our largely Norman-French speaking ruling class and the English-speaking people. And yet within three centuries our kings identified with this country and many have led us in battle against the French. King George VI stayed in London when it was being bombed because he identified with his people. Elizabeth II was as English as Bazza from the pub. And even though we did lose a lot from the Conquest, ultimately we gained a lot from it also, as the English landscape is unimaginable without Norman castles. The Norman castles are no longer instruments of oppression but became a part of the land and its defence. The introduction of romance words into our vocabulary make our language one of the richest and most diverse in the world. Tell me that Shakespeare, Coverdale, Pope, Tennyson and a hundred others have not shown modern English perfectly capable of the most sublime literary beauty, a beauty consisting 60% of words from romance languages. The Conquest is woven into the fabric of who and what we are, and to continue to be wounded by it is to tear apart England itself. Go and watch Bragnah's version of Shakespeare's Henry V and you will realise that. These national hatreds destroyed Europe and ultimately robbed the continent of her prime place in the world. ww1 was the "suicide of Europe." The Franco Prussian War was also caused by stupid jingoism. ww2 left 60 million dead and half the continent was occupied by the Bolsheviks. The sad thing is all of the soldiers in ww1 ultimately had the same values of "God, King and Country" but the war led to the ruination of those values. As they say: "No more brother wars." Ultimately, true nationalism is not chauvinistic or revanchist. I think that a Frenchman should be proud of France, not England. Just as you should be proud of your family, not someone else's. For example I find it very cringe when Americans act all ashamed of their country. So nationalists of all nations should find common cause, not mutual hatred. "Nationalism means: The more I, as an Englishman, love England, the more I realise how an Irishman must love Ireland." On high there sat a soldier, Gazing on the town, His heart was full of wisdom; His grey hair formed a crown. He thought of a thousand lands, Of Boer and Jap and Hun, And though he fought against ‘em, Yet loved he, every one. And whilst his heart was thrilled, At Injia’s ancient stones, At Alps and Himalayas, Home to British bones, Yet his heart returned, To a little patch of wheat, To Malvern Hill and Brecon, And English lack of heat! Behind there roared an engine, A car and radio, A voice crept up behind him, “Sir, why sit you so? Your heart is kind and liberal, You’ve seen a thousand ships, You’ve tasted a thousand spices, Yet you eat English chips!” “What is that patch but another, A thousand, not a few, Lands do now surpass it, In skies of unending blue! And behold, your own dear country, For which you’ve shed your blood, Is greedier than Babylon, And the world before the Flood!” “Why, sir” said the old soldier, “But one of these is mine, There are a thousand mothers, But just one of them is thine. When I see another mother, I love my own but more, For seeing another honoured, I remember whom she bore.” “When men do love their country, Though it be not mine, Be he Boer or French or Russian, Or even from the Rhine! I count it to their virtue, Though he do ‘gainst me fight, And pray that Hun or Frenchman, Might love his country right!” “And dost thou measure family, Looking on thy mother, And dost thou love her less, If she be poorer than another? Do not her little failings, Act like English rain, And endear thee but more to her, When black clouds come again?” “Thou art with me surprised, For that I’ve left our shore, Yet come back to my country, To come back to my door. But there is a greater Traveller, Who hath set the stars and sun, He knoweth them all by number, And loves He every one.” “But even He the One, Before Whom skies do fall, Who made a thousand kingdoms, And loves them one and all. Even He, this One, Deigned to be born, That He might have a country, This He did not scorn.” “But when He tried to save them, They nailed Him to a Cross, Made Him drink of vinegar, Yet Love suffered no loss. He the greatest Traveller, Died on a Malvern Hill, On a little patch of Palestine, That was the Travellin’ Soldier’s will.”

@@TotusTuus-jf7qz I agree with everything you say. I just have a different way of looking at it. I may never be able to fully forgive the French for the 1300 years of war that we've had. Does this put me in a similar situation like the Middle East is facing? Absolutely. It's always easier to hate than to forgive, especially when your people have been at each other's throats for millennia. Look no further than the relationship between Scots and English. The English are responsible for the near eradication of the Scottish culture and language just like the Normans are responsible for the Latinization of English and destroying its ties to the West Germanic culture. Yes, much good came from it but at a terrible cost. For me, a part of me will always blame France for the death of my country and I'll always be angry about that. But I have to remind myself that my own country is guilty of equally and more wretched things than the French and that if I can make peace with that, I can attempt to make peace with French history too. But yes, all men and women should love their country. A Frenchman should be able to say J'aime la France, just as a German should be able to say Ich liebe Deutschland and an Englishman, I love England. We all should take pride and love in our nations and kingdoms while making peace with both our past and the wars we've had with each other. Then and only then can we call each other brothers. Like you say, the conquest of England is woven in your history and to be wounded by it is to favor Ænglaland over England. But Ænglaland is a ghost that is remembered, not revived. Just as Old Saxony is a ghost to be remembered but not revived. Same with the Second Reich and the Kingdom of France. These are ghosts of our past and trying to bring them back, even if it would be better, would be to make more rifts and cause more wars. Eventually, one has to choose between forgiveness or resentment. For now, I'm not ready to forgive but I must always keep an open heart and mind for the sake of Europe

​@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 thanks for the kind words

@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 ignore the other guy.

@@TotusTuus-jf7qz I made a comment coming at him but yeah, I'm just ignoring that bs 😂

cries in english

England is still here. The Normans conquered us, but they didn't replace us. It took a while, but we eventually convinced them they were English, and in an ironic twist of fate would then spend the next few centuries invading France. I've always wondered if the King of France at the time would have tried to stop William if he could see the future. Anglo-Saxon England largely kept to itself and minded its own business, if it wasn't for the conquest I doubt England and France would have gone to war half as much.

This hits pretty hard brother. But Harold died a hero, doing a most kingly duty. His geist is one and the same of the English heart and national soul, when he perished he became one with every anglo saxon.

​​​@@PanzertruppenLeopard_1shut up little wanker seriously if you want to shit talk do it to are face not in the safety of your own country 😂😂😂

​@@keighlancoe5933it's go and show how uneducated these two wank stain are in the comments are like we beat France countless time and at one point France was apart of England fact William just got very lucky but like you seid they didn't replace us because we still here and french we'll look at there country nowadays it's a joke 😂😂😂

It’s beautiful. I love how it has heavy Germanic influence with a lot of latin mixed in too.

​@@chrisstucker1813What? Old English IS Germanic lol

@@Anglisc1682 I never said it wasn’t.

Then the filthy French Norseman tainted it

​@@Anglisc1682the English we speak nowadays is more influenced by Germanic and Norman words while old English was fully Germanic and even the Germans could understand them

In some celtic orthodox churches in England he is viewed as a martyr saint

He was the rightful KING

⁠@@chrisstucker1813that bloody right he wæs the true and rightful king of Ænglaland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Technicaly the celtic peoples would be the natives

Indeed anglo saxon-celts, the Halstadt and the germanic speaking tribes was all of Keltoi Ancestry....

​@@wor53lg50 No.

​@@OrangeGoggles1I mean the Celts didn't establish England, but yes they was here first

​​@@BGIncorporatedi know im one of them, in fact my surname(white) is one of the oldest to the Anglo spheres! Also in Gaelic or Brythonic which would have been similar, it means Son of a fair haird servent or Ghilli or basically son of a slave a hang up from Roman occupation i suppose , ironic dont you think in todays politically correct atmosphere that the Surname white ment a slave or servent...it also means bold as im fearless meaning it could have been the son of a warrior who was slain and the warriors wife took as a slave/servant with child, which many Roman did use the natives as...

He came very close to winning. At some point the banner of William fell and his men thought he himself had fallen, so they started wavering, but William rode along the lines of his army to show them he was still alive. Also, the left flank of the Norman army broke and routed at some point, but the Saxon warriors disobeyed orders to remain in formation, chased the Normans down and eventually got surrounded by Norman cavalry. From then on it started to go downhill for the Saxons.

⁠​⁠@@wulfheort8021but yet we Anglo Saxon English our still here i hate William I’m pro Harold godwinson because in my eyes he was our true king not William and that a fact but I’m sure Harold godwinson would be proud that we his people invaded France countless time and that a fact

Alternate history/timeline where the English and Normans shake hands and bid farewell to each other while parting ways to their respective homelands would be pretty cool to behold.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️✝️⚔️ Rip Harold Gōdwinessunu the true king of Ænglaland

He was a wretched usurper.

As a proud Anglo Saxon Englishman I respect you welsh for teaching that French muppets a lesson we English see Harold as our true king because he was not William the gutless coward 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

A nice favour returned to the Anglos who fought for you against the picts

​@@DASW2001🎉

Did you know he was half Danish? From his mother's side.

​@@wulfheort8021He was also a descendent of Bjorn Ironside!

​@@wulfheort8021and did you know the English are Germanic as well? they came from Southern Scandinavia.

Anglo Saxon blood run through us English like a warm spring and I’m proud of that fact so you muppets need to accept the fact that we pure English are our Anglo Saxon descendants and that our the fact sick of freak of nature like you people in the comments thinking they no more about my kin my ancestors my people you don’t no 💩 and that is a fact 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️⚔️

It’s funny because the Saxons themselves were conquerors

we used to speak it way bæc þen

It sounds harsh and powerful🔥🔥🔥

Man, this comment is awesome, speechless. Thank you

@@SkaldBarda lot of other people who do the “this is what ancient languages sound like” make them sound like they aren’t a real language but you make them sound like they are a real language

repent to God

@@Baggerz182 Who said I wasn't a Christian?

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modern brits are pathetic lol

Thanks a lot for this, my friend, very nice to hear - I'll make a note of your suggestions, great ideas

I really hope this happens, especially if it's from the perspective of the Anglo-Saxons. There needs to be more songs of their accomplishments.

Aethelfrith of Bernicia who was known to the Celts as 'the twister', and first ruler of Bernicia and Deira to form the great Kingdom of Northumbria!

This is really a fantastic idea

I'm a Northerner from the Midwest, I can also trace my blood back to England, my surname comes from Old English. Let us treasure our Anglo-Saxon and American heritage forever more, brother !

Greetings from another English Tennessean! Our ancestors still live through us

How do you trace it back?

@@Goofy-G I did it like this: I looked up my last name in english and in irish as i know that i have irish ancestors and well it resulted in being a scottish name

​​​@@Goofy-G Use 23andMe. But if you're white, have an Scottish/English surname, and live in a former British settler colony, then you're almost certainly of Anglo-Saxon (English) descent. If your family has been in America since before the 1900s, you can probably rest assured that you are an Anglo. Non-British ethnic groups were pretty uncommon in America before the 20th century. In fact, when German, Irish and Italian immigrants began moving to America around the turn of the 20th century, many Americans of the day were worried about America loosing its Anglo-Saxon culture and heritage. You can read what President Teddy Roosevelt and H.P. Lovecraft had to say about these non-Anglo-Saxon migrants moving to America and their worries about them replacing America's Anglo-Saxon culture. I can't find it now, but i'm 100% sure I remember Teddy Roosevelt basically saying that the Anglo-Saxons should rule the world lmao.

i'm doing þat already! My Niewanglisch project

Id rather revive all the Brythonic languages OUR true ancestry

@@mk_gamíng0609Brother. If you are of English decent, I can say with 100% certainty you are genetically Germanic. If you’re Scotland or Ireland that’s different.

@@tfan2222even the scots and Irish have quite a lot of Germanic dna 🧬

​@@WendyHutchinson-pg7qyno they got mostly Celtic DNA and yes they do have Germanic within the English influence

Flanders and Albion will one day both be free again

Would love to see some similar stuff to this in your archive.

Probably did but the Saxons were brutally oppressed for generations following the Norman conquest and the Northumbrians were near completely genocided.

​​@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117we Anglo Saxon English did what we needed to do it's not are fault that the Celtic tribe was weak compare to us English they should of fighted harder then shouldn't they so don't bother trying to make us English feel bad because we don't not even a little bit that was the way back then so stop with the bs about genocide you bloody freak of nature 😂🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

My actual family name were direct tenants of Harold Godwinson. Our history is simply a tale of distancing from the Norman conquerors.

Hal wes þu

How do we do it? Surely there’s some kind of movement out there

@@hickling12 you create one and encourage others to join, make clubs and groups centred around relearning the language, offer the option to clubs with kids in attendance or do assemblies at schools. if they learn it while their brains are developing they can learn it faster and remember it longer. then just continue to spread it. make viral videos on the subject ( this song is definitely a good way, doing other famous songs and translating them to old English would be another option ) maybe even make dubs of famous tv or anime lines to show what it would sound like if we spoke in old english

​@@connorshaw-case6030 Honestly, the thought of having native Old English speakers like in that scenario is amazing

children's games...

What a beautiful sentiment.

"People of eternal autumn". Somehow absolutely right

Is it true you study Old English for a while at school in Russia? I read that somewhere.

Glory To God

​@@keighlancoe5933Never heard about this. As far as I know, Old English is taught at some universities here in Russia. Maybe some schools specialized in English teach it as well.

But yet we his people our still here and still see him as the true king of England and us English not William the pussy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️⚔️

Awesome comment, I'm glad it made an impact. God bless you, friend

​@@SkaldBardIt's bæsed

​@@SkaldBardbāseþ

That was the Anglo-Saxon battlecry. They would smash their swords and spears against their shields and chant Ūt repeatedly. I've witnessed a good thousand or so Anglo-Saxon re-enactors recreate it, and it is quite intimidating, your hairs stand up and you get goosebumps.

Goosebumps every time

Awesome idea! Thanks

😂

Forgive

Good

Lol northerers hated thr Francs cause the men there are still heavy in Anglo dna women too but alot of women were celt Briton or Norwegian settlers

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Thank you very much and good luck with the research!

@@skullwarrior4769 Totally in agreement

It is during the reign of Edward III that being English is something to be celebrated again. Such a coincidence how it all changed at the same time Harold Godwinson's bloodline was reintroduced.

​@@RBS.23 Edward III, being a Plantagenet, had a bloodline back to Aelfred Great and beyond, back as far as Cerdic (and even Woden, apparently....🤭.)

​@@adventussaxonum448It's a broad tree, yes. Don't forget Baldæg of Westphalia!

​@@skullwarrior4769We dont have a true Anglo Saxon with royal blood, We cant replace the French in norse costumes, can we?

Not only English monarchs ... Gita of Wessex is the daughter of Harold Godwinson and his wife Edith the Fair also known as Edith Swanneck. After marrying Vladimir II Monomakh, Gita became the princess of Kievan Rus The eldest son of Vladimir II Monomakh by Gita of Wessex, Mstislav the Great, was the Grand Duke of Kiev (1125-1132). He occupies a prominent place in the Scandinavian sagas under the name Harald, alluding to his grandfather, Harold II of England. Through her son Mstislav the Great, she was the ancestor of the Danish King Valdemar I Gita was the mother of Yuri Dolgoruky, through his descendants she is the ancestor of Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky and, consequently, of such rulers as Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan III the Great and Ivan IV the Terrible.

Thank you! Means a lot

@@SkaldBard No worries. On a side note; we need a song on Æthelstan! He's far too overlooked and arguably did more for England than even Alfred the Great.

⁠​⁠@@rustybayonette6641Alfred was the first King of the Anglo Saxons. The first man to unite the English. His children and grandchildren finished what he started. Without Alfred there is no England…hence why he is the only English king to be called “Great”.

Interesting!! Never knew this

Did you do it without allying the HRE? Because if you do that it’s kinda cheating imo

@@wilmanuts9954 Does it count if I did. But I got done with it before their asses showed up?

@@somedude2608 yeah that’s fine imo. Good job with repelling the Norman invaders. Now you’ve just got those Norwegians and you’re golden

Six feet of English Soil

Glad you clocked the quote! Thanks a lot for the kind words - and yes, he really was

@TervelKamenovElohim The soil a slave became free the moment he stepped foot on after 1086, i guess william coming had its advantages. Certainly for the young men that got their freedom from their american masters upon entering england once the law had been echoed and amplified in parliament. English law did not allow slavery. What followed was campagining of good english men fighting until britain abolished slavery. For the WORLD.

@Dovahkiin8646 mine too,has been since I was a kid.

@Dovahkiin8646 yep,he will always be my favourite historical figure,it's a shame his reign ended the way it did.

I was saying the same thing to my wife just yesterday about hopefully making it to 2066!

​@@SkaldBardwell will all be old thegns thanes fyrdmen and huscarls by then keep your Bodies healthy

@@SkaldBard great minds think alike :)

My great-grandfather took Berlin in 1945 - so you better shut up

​@@IgorKon765Red Army?

Richard III in your profile picture. Well done.

Right you are, old friend

@@confiteordeo3863I’d guess that since Harold’s marriage to Edith the Fair wasn’t blessed by the Church it is rather hard to call him a truly pious man.

what religion was he? I cannot find it online some say catholic some say orthadox

@@loowee2627I wish England had stayed Orthodox 😔

was england ever orthadox? @@EnglishOrthodox

@@loowee2627 before the schism, yes. And some would argue that the Christianity practiced in the British isles before William the conqueror invaded was still Orthodox.

@@IgorKon765 well respect to him then but what does that even have to do here?.

@@IgorKon765 yes

@@IgorKon765 well obviously the side of our country.

@@Kingsaxxy3872 Yeah, he said the same thing on my post. I said he and his Prussian murdering grandfather could shove off. Just ignore him

That's awesome, thanks for the support

Wes þu hal! Thank you for your kind words, my friend.

@@osgar333 very true mate! Too many modern English will take pride in anything other than their Germanic anglo Saxon heritage which is why this country has become so alienated from its roots!!