Well, first of all, let's talk about the history of the English language, okay?
We know that around 1000 AD, the language was Anglo-Saxon, also known as Old English,
and it was a Germanic language that is totally unintelligible to us today.
So unless you've actually studied Old English, you would not be able to understand any of
it, okay?
You know, I'll give you a little sample of it, okay?
Here's the beginning of Beowulf in Old English.
Hwæt wægærdinna ægærdagum, tæod cunninga thrum gefrúnann, huða æthlinges ællinn
thremedann.
Æft, sheild, shaefing, shaeth, and æthraetum, månagum magtum, mærda setlæod.
Does anybody understand any of that?
No, it's completely unintelligible.
There are little parts where you'll be like, I know what that just said.
You know, in the opening of Beowulf, there's a part where it says, fat was good cunning.
That was a good king.
That was one good king.
And you're like, ah, I understood that for a second.