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Lucy Worsley Investigates: William the Conqueror? I'll try and find it somewhere.
I'm not a linguist, but I often wonder about pronunciations. As soon as you go back in time, as back as Shakespare, and you read Quartos and Folios as they were written, you start seeing words written differently. Not just the long s's, whole words are different. There was Original Pronunciation Shakespare movement, but its validity was never entirely established. We do know that pronunciation was different, we know some basics, but I guess that we'll never know how it really sounded.
I don't understand your point about Beowulf being easier to read than Cantenbury Tales, though. Isn't Beowulf in Old English balderdash to anyone not familiar with it?
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