Just know the farmer knows what He means but he's bewildered by by how Close it is to his Family tongue

How now Brown Cow, Brown Cow, How How now

bro did a mass barter

A lot of folks pointing out that "eryen" is the Dutch word for egg. There's an old video you can find on KZfaq of Eddie Izzard going to Northern Holland to buy a brown cow by speaking only Old English. It was a success.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

With the same success he could try to buy a brown cow (eine braune Kuh) somewhere in Germany.

Eddie: "Your wife is a brown Cow" Farmer: *Reaches for pitchfork*

Eddie when he use to be normal.

The reason why the Frisian farmer didn't understand the Old English word Bycgan is because in all the continental west Germanic languages including Frisian the verb for to buy was Kapia or Keapje in modern Frisian, the root verb for the modern English word Cheap comes from Old English Ceapan which could also mean to buy, the modern Dutch and German words Kaufen and Kopen are cognates.

Still a great video. Unfortunately, the description says Eddie went to Holland, but Friesland isn't in those provinces.

It sounded like Danish wich makes good sence because the danish vikings owned that land

To put a spanner in the works. The Normans entered the fray in the 11th century. Predominately settling in the south but with heritage from the north/Scandinavia.

'Brūna' means brown in Latvian too but i guess it is loaned from Germans

The Frisian language is the old native language of the Germans. the Frisian language is also understandable by Germany and Scandinavian.

I like how he ends his first segment by saying "so in theory I should be able to communicate with him"... What mad theory is that? XD you think nothing has happened to Frisian language for 700 years? XD

Now call a non-White ethnicity 'mongrel' and see how that goes down...

brüne qu ,-D

nice

As a Scot I find it amazing how similar both of their accents are to my local dialect, especially the term 'broon coo' which is exactly how we'd say it. Often the focus when studying the Scots language is how elegantly it synthesises Gaelic and French with English, but what I find interesting is how this shows how Scots maintained many of the archaic features of English.

They both sounds like a native speaker trying to talk slow and simple, like michale stevens from vsauce, in order to communciate with a non native speaker.

I'm amazed how Europeans are very alike one another and how Europeans were able to slaughter one another for centuries being the ww2 the most devastating of all (including mass murdering, rape of women, girls and grandmothers, babies being smashed, old men being shot and men sent to the meat grinder). I hope you can see one day how very alike are one another and never ever again you think of killing each other again.

like for Bruun Cuuv

What The THAT DINN🔊 in the Background and it DANE-LAW ‼️Was MUCH More "NORTH EAST/vs -WEST ‼️

As a Geordie I understood most of it no problem

Weirdly enough the Frisian man sounds more English than old English

Every accurate timetravel movie

Swedish to this day: Tyckte: Thought. Tyckte om: Liked, loved, or cared for.

I want a BRUUUUNE KOO! xD

Sonia your so lucky it still exists this video

at points i can understand the farmer. interesting

As a linguist nerd this is like my favorite video of all time. Super fascinating, but also hilarious!

There's that man who pretends he's a woman.

sooooo cute

The CC for this are hilarious 😂...

I’d love to know what Simon Roper thinks of this.

this would have gone much better with someone fluent in Old English. Also, for Middle English you need one province further East - Groningen. There's inscriptions in the old Martini Church in the city of Groningen that are middle english and when you speak and understand Neder-Saksisch (the language group spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Twente and on Borkum and in Öst Friesland) you can understand middle english. That area had Frisian replaced by Neder-Saxisch after a devastating flood in the 9th century AD. Frisian cow farmers got replaced by wheat-growing farmers from the sandy, higher lying areas further south. They took their language with them and it became dominant in the province of Groningen, and in Germany's Öst-Friesland.

Us mem!!!

This reminds me of the way my grandmother and the fisher folk from the east coast of Scotland used to talkback in the early twentieth century. Maybe the trading connections with the Hanseatic League and Baltic countries?

Bro this is some gold video I'm really glad that I discovered it

Eddie got it wrong ! In Friesland they don't have 'bruun koos' but black&white Frisian 'koos ! 😅

Brunne Cuuue?

Somethings wrong with youtubes algorithm again.

Bow skika brooooone cooooooo

Eddie Izzard hosting this makes this somewhat more hilarious

Shaun of the Dead anyone?

6:17 that look of absolute disgust 😂

I want a Broon Coo. Where is my broon coo?

I understood it 100%, idk why. My Opa did have a more similar and familiar accent to the older farmer. He came from more northern Nederland but it wasn't Friesland. Alpen ann der Rhine to be exact, when it was just farms there.

Anyone else get recommended another upload of this same video?

Well, I'm German an I understood both of them