anglo-saxon language

I can read Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, Icelandic, and I know some German from school

I feel very confident when reading Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
I can read Beowfulf
but I am not confident in the pronunciation, I just use Old Norse phonology

I'm taking a course of the History of the English Language this semester, and although the breadth of the class is great, I'm hoping to pick up a little bit

I'm fairly proficient in German, which helps

>>2269182
>tfw don't have enough time to learn Old Norse, Old English, Latin, Old French, and Middle English, and Ancient Greek

>>2269182
> Faeder ure thu the eart on heofenum, si thin nama gehalgod. To-becume thin rice. Cewurthe thin willa on eorthan, swa swa on heofonum. Urne gedaeghwamlican hlaf syle us to daeg. And forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa the forgyfath urum gyltendum. And ne gelaed thu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. Sothlice.

It's the Lord's Prayer.

Old English is much like Icelandic or Old Norse. Pretty easy, really, as far as languages go.

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>>2269182
>not learning Welsh instead

>>2270599
Old English pronunciation is as it is read. The only strangeness, I can think of, is 'sc' being the aspirate sibilant beside front vowels.

>>2270636
Actually, Old English is closer to Low German, Frisian, Dutch, and German

>>2270664
True. I haven't studied any of those though.