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I don't mind it - I found this the other day which I thought was pretty cool:
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Love this! Made it back to 1200, then yeah it was a wall
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.
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.
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.
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!