The History of English - Languages: Anglo-Saxon (1/10)

Take a look at what words the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings bought to the English language.
(Part 1 of 10)

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[richikusaru]

These videos became English homework for me...

[OpenLearn_OU]

@AvidyaZen Hi, Thank you for your suggestion, we have added the playlist link to each video. We will now do this for all future series. Glad you enjoyed them!

[Maxvdk]

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[RichardVobes]

I love the speed of the these productions and the cartoon style. Well done. I wish my stuff could be made as easily.

[ricardofagundescarvalho]

How can I have access to the texts used as reference for these videos?
Or how can I cite it in an academic work I'm doing?

[SpeakWritePlayinEnglish]

Interesting to know how English words have evolved during the years and they will keep doing it!

[pla-pixelsliteraturaearte]

NOW THAT`S SOME AMAZING CONTENT ON YOUTUBE. LONG LIVE EDUCATION

[TheEuzkaro]

Cof, cof..! (coughing fit)..
Mona (Moon god) for Monday, and Sunne (Sun goddess) for Sunday.. ;)
The only actually "taken" was Saturday for Saturnus..

[OpenLearn_OU]

The phrase says "The English language begins with the phrase 'up yours Caesar'"

[tauceti]

Ahh. My British history teacher would love this.

[BriWhoSaysNi]

"As well as the phrase "Watch out for that man with the enormous ax."" A very important phrase indeed. lol. I love these videos.

[DragonMasterThlayli]

We watched this in our A level English class. As well as being entertaining, its educational and relevant too! These movies are great!

[i_am_ergo]

@Crecybowman Well, I wasn't too concerned with the word's etymology. It's just that I didn't hear the word itself clearly at that time. But I do appreciate the readiness to help a person out.

[GlobetrottingMusicologist]

Well made, worth a watch, ALL 10 of them.

Always love a good Andrew Marr accent. :)

[alve]

Englisc - The ethnic term for the collaboration of Anglo, Saxon and Jutish. 2 brothers from the Jutish sector, Hengist and Horsa, were the first to arrive with a small army to help a struggling Brythonnic/Waelisc/Welsh king who in return gave them land. They then called the rest of the Englisc or known at the time as Angelcynn (English kin). You missed out some important info :).

[shayt]

hank you for uploading this video it's interesting

[OrkarIsberEstar]

correction - give is actually a germanic word and not given by the vikings. taka is the old norse for take and take comes from taka. Give however does not come from old norse gefa but BOTH derive from the protogermanic gebh.

[JohnMatrix]

For the most part t1t296 is actually correct. Walter Bodmer's team published 2 papers last year which show substantial Anglo-Saxon replacement in southern, eastern and central England. This was even more so than his preliminary results released in 2007. There were distinct genetic clusters in the north (Vikings?) and the southwestern parts were unalike as well.

[demersonfelipe]

Lingua Anglo Saxão The history of the English language. Throughout history it is notorious that English is the sum of several languages of different tribes such as Angles and Saxons who together give us the term Anglo-Saxon and Jutes, Vikings had the influence of Latin but the Anglo Saxon vacabular was much more useful as it was more commonly used, such an influence still reflects today, for example, four of our days of the week, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday were named in honor of Anglo-Saxon gods, and even today they continue to be called even so with all the Christian influence saying that everything that is not Christian is pagan. Regarding the 3 videos what intrigued me is whether the English language is a so many cultures, English is the first language in: Australia, The bahamas, Canada, Ireland, Guyana and it is official language in many other countries, so why do we study only two variations of the English language, American English and British English?