509. Sister tongues


HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum,
þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð
feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah,
oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning!


From: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf-oe.html


Sorry German people, for I published a picture frm Casablanca on post # 505, and I’ve realized the bad guys in the movie are German. It might had bothered someone.


English is a sister tongue within the Germanic family, in which we have German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian – do I forget any?


The text above is from the beginning of Beowulf, one of the first texts in Old English.


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