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Originally Posted by haertig
I remember that in college. I didn't know what English it was at the time, but it was not easy to read by any means. It would have been incomprehensible without the translations (in the margins of the book, IIRC).
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I've never read all of
The Canterbury Tales, but in a side-by-side edition I took a look at I remember being struck by how much a low-level vestigial familiarity with German helped with understanding Middle English.