History Memes

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[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Love this! Made it back to 1200, then yeah it was a wall

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[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If you speak German or/and Swedish, the 1000's can be understood with a bit of effort. I speak both but it still took me awhile to make the right connections.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Yep, German speaker here. At 1000 I understand about half, but I had to reread the lines multiple times.

I got that they got married and he is now a wifman (husband) and that they live as wer and wif.

But I didn't understand that they still hunt the Maister.

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[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

I only just now found the modern translation at the end, I'd say I got maybe 50-60% right. But I didn't get the Maister part either.

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[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately not, only English for me

I do remember going to a cathedral in the Netherlands and being able to read some Dutch from the 1100s which was pretty cool!

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 months ago

As a swede i have to read it in a very specific cadence and manner for it to make sense, if i try reading it like normal it turns into absolute gibberish