▲ 768 ▼ I choose violence (thelemmy.club) submitted 6 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/historymemes@piefed.social 344 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago (5 children) Love this! Made it back to 1200, then yeah it was a wall permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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! permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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! permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent