Have you read the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer?

[Zebra]

It is in Middle English

I have read some of it.

Did you also?

 

[Zebra]

I enjoyed reading it

 

[Zebra]

Jarlaxle

you have read it in Middle English
did you also enjoy it?

 

[Foxfyre]

It is in Middle English

I have read some of it.

Did you also?

Required reading in English class when I was in school as was at least part of "Beowulf." Poems were really LONG in old English lit. I don't think it was taught much if at all in the USA after my generation though.

One of our favorite comedies set in Medieval Europe is "A Knight's Tale." Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the brilliantly conceived characters in that movie, the role pure fiction of course.

 

[Zebra]

Required reading in English class when I was in school as was at least part of "Beowulf." Poems were really LONG in old English lit. I don't think it was taught much if at all in the USA after my generation though.

One of our favorite comedies set in Medieval Europe is "A Knight's Tale." Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the brilliantly conceived characters in that movie, the role pure fiction of course.

I also did some Old English.
Very much like Old German.

 

[Foxfyre]

I also did some Old English.
Very much like Old German.

Well they didn't make us read Old German or any German back then. The old middle English was tough enough. Even Shakespeare, writing 200 years after Chaucer, was challenging.

 

[Zebra]

Well they didn't make us read Old German or any German back then. The old middle English was tough enough. Even Shakespeare, writing 200 years after Chaucer, was challenging.

i enjoyed those languages
in parts.

 

[Zebra]

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
when April with his sweet showers .....

 

[Dekster]

I have read some of the tales. We also had to memorize the beginning of Beowulf in old english and stand in front of the class and recite it as a requirement to pass. Oh the good old days....that are dead and buried for a reason.

 

[Zebra]

I have read some of the tales. We also had to memorize the beginning of Beowulf in old english and stand in front of the class and recite it as a requirement to pass. Oh the good old days....that are dead and buried for a reason.

i read the story of Caedmon in Old English

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
when April with his sweet showers .....

Pedagargle

There's no justification for not modernizing the spelling, even for obsolete language. That shows academentia's snobbish contempt for communication.

 

[Zebra]

Pedagargle

There's no justification for not modernizing the spelling, even for obsolete language. That shows academentia's snobbish contempt for communication.

both are ok ..... the original and the translation .... and its not only the spelling ....