I recently came across this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4058Zk2Uv4
An excellent "translation" of the the Ring Verse into a poem in the Mercian dialect of Old English, which Tolkien used as the language of the Rohirrim. The Anglo-Saxon is in the video's description, as is a link to the Modern English translation. A nice bonus is that one can get the alliterative force of the kind of poetry Tolkien loved.
Best to watch this one at night in a dark room to get the full, spooky effect.
-G. Lederer
1 comment:
Wow! I love it! This makes me even more eager to take a course in Old English...
--Luke
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