Direct comments from The Sword

I am sorry, but I have no idea how Ike got on my movie. Please ignore him.
And the reason you can't see anything is because you aren't supposed to.

Charts! Data! Thoughts! The World's Ending!

The Chart on the left is a representation of the data I collected from students in a local high school. I presented each with five words that were commonly used in the epic poem, Beowulf. It seems that most words were not recognizable to their Modern English counterparts. Maybe it was just that the spelling back then wasn't fixed.

Where'd you get this from?

"Old English." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 17 Oct 2008, 05:30 UTC. 17 Oct 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_English&oldid=245832430>.

Beowulf1, Tuesday, oct 7,08 historymedren.about.com/.../blpxbeowulf.htm

Anglosaxonrunes, Thursday, oct 2, 08, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anglosaxonrunes.JPG

Just in from the Castle's Intelligence Network

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.

The Plan

How can you expect to finish this in time if you don't even know where you will learn it?!?
Calm down. I've been working on that. I've been reading Beowulf and scouring the internet for usable information.
Has it been useful?
Yes, it has. I found this.
What that? Some cryptic type code?
That is runic Anglo Saxon.
Oh thæt.
That wasn't funny. Anyway, I'm going to read up more Beowulf if I can steal my copy back from Louis. Not any Louis you know.
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The easy goal

So...
I need to learn how to speak old English. And read it. Maybe even write some.
How do you speak, read, and write Anglo Saxon?
First I need to find a text that comes from that time period. Like Beowulf.
You mean that? ===============>
Yes.
I heard the movie was totally different from the poem.
Lets not get off topic.







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What the Castle believes about language

We personally think that humans created language because of a deep inner need to complain.

Language is what you make it. No one can have the same language as you because it's your language.

Lizard talk
You see all these people commenting on how others speak, like, if a person from New York talked to a person from Alabama, the New Yorker thinks the Southerner is speaking gibberish. The Southerner probably thinks the same thing.