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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The oldest Old French we have is from 842AD, but old English fragments are as old as the 5th century.

I bet those Old English fragments were way easier to understand for speakers of Old Saxon that for a 1500s English speaker.

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, that’s definitely true

I realized in like 4th grade that I could parse various Latin languages okay just from knowing some Spanish. I thought old English would be the same or easier… nope. Beowulf still looks more like Icelandic than English