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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
at the same time wouldn't probably be able to get through something originally written in old English without some modernization, although maybe that would be looked on as a translation of a sort.
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Nobody could, unless they've learnt the language. Old English is a foreign language to a modern speaker. Eg, this is the start of "Beowolf":
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Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena in ġeār-dagum,
þēod-cyninga, þrym ġefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum,
monegum mǣġþum, meodosetla oftēah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden, hē þæs frōfre ġebād,
wēox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þāh,
oðþæt him ǣġhwylc þāra ymbsittendra
ofer hronrāde hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs gōd cyning!
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I seriously doubt that there are many here who can understand more than a word or two of that.