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The New Beowulf movie.
KharBevNor:
That's the one. Middle english looks like this:
--- Quote from: Geoffrey Chaucer ---Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
--- End quote ---
Whilst Old English looks like this:
--- Quote from: Unknown author of Beowulf ---Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean,
fromum feohgiftum on fæder bearme,
þæt hine on yld eft gewunigen
wilgesiþas, þonne wig cume,
leode gelæsten; lofdædum sceal
in mægþa gehwære man geþeon.
Him ða Scyld gewat to gescæphwile
felahror feran on frean wære.
Hi hyne þa ætbæron to brimes faroðe,
swæse gesiþas, swa he selfa bæd.
--- End quote ---
Basically, any fairly well educated person can read Middle English (especially if you have some French or German). Old English, on the other hand, is pretty much an ancient German dialect.
monkandmovies13:
Yeah. I knew the difference, but I've never actually read Beowulf and don't know too much about it. So I got a little confused...
Dimmukane:
I think it was sort of a blend of old and middle English, actually...there were a few words he spoke which were definitely not in anyway Germanic. But yeah, I guess it gets some points for that. All my dumb friends were like "why is he talking funny" and "he must be some kind of retarded inbred or something".
KvP:
I wouldn't be surprised if Crispin Glover demanded that he be able to speak in Old English. That is, if he wasn't chosen for Grendel after the script was written.
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 Nov 2007, 18:53 ---Canterbury Tales verse.
--- End quote ---
Middle English is fun to speak. Especially Chaucer.
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