This language really reminds me of cutting butter with your tongue.
It's that bad?
Not really. It's just that letters take on a new sound and usage.
This is the first line of Beowulf:
Hwæt we Gar-Dena in gear-dagum...
The way you say it is like:
Hwat way garr-denna en gay-arr-dog-em.
What? That is a mouthful! How crazy could it possibly get?
Much. Some of the letters aren't even used anymore.
The correct translation is: So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by...
Anglo-Saxon is heavily influenced by Germanic and Old Norse languages. That is why the letters are so different from modern English.
The reason Anglo-Saxon is so hard to understand, ever if you can read it, is that the writing styles were much different from what we use today.
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