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That is also useful because that is further apart than I would have expected. :-) Is there a continental European Germanic language that was closer to English
by schoen 6y ago
That is also useful because that is further apart than I would have expected. :-)
Is there a continental European Germanic language that was closer to English at that time? An ancestor of modern Frisian or something?
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoOld Saxon will be the closest thing to Frisian for the same time period, and it does look closer to the Old English: Fadar usa firiho barno, thu bist an them hohon himila rikea, geuuihid si thin namo uuordo gehuuilico, Cuma thin craftag riki. UUerða thin uuilleo oƀar thesa werold alla, so sama an erðo, so thar uppa ist an them hohon himilo rikea. Gef us dag gehuuilikes rad, drohtin the godo, thina helaga helpa, endi alat us, heƀenes uuard, managoro mensculdio, al so uue oðrum mannum doan. Ne lat us farledean leða uuihti so forð an iro uuileon, so uui uuirðige sind, ac help us uuiðar allun uƀilon dadiun. [these are all of course translations from Latin, so there are also differences in translator choices as well.]
- schoen 6y agoYeah, also the problem of the translation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiousios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiousios (or the vernacular translation of Latin translations of that word)... Thanks for the Old Saxon example. Very interesting!