What Language Is This?

Posted on the 28 December 2014 by Calvinthedog

I took out most of the clues hopefully. This one might be easier than it seems at first, and it does have that familiar look about it, does it not?

Is þæt sīdoste, folclicoste, and hæfþ sīdost folces þicnesse þǣm fēowerum “Hāmlicra Rīca” þæt ætgæderum sind þæt Geanlǣhte Cynerīce (GC). Weardaþ þone sūþeastan ende þǣre īege, nama cymþ of þǣm, ān sumra folcra, þe habbaþ þā gesetled þǣm 5an and 6an gēarhundredum. Siþþan 1707, þā man scōp, næs ungewilde rīce. Wæs in gēardagum cynerīce. Æþelstan cyning wæs sē ǣrresta cyning eall to geānlǣcenne in ānum rīce. Endemestan undercyning aflīemed Ēadred Cyning and wæs an.

Mid wæs geānlǣhte be Anne Cwēne in 1707, Cynerīce to scieppenne. Is hēafodburg þæs Geānedan Cynerīces and is on ealre worulde þāra grīetestra burga ān. Hit hæfþ seofon þūsendu þūsenda lēoda in (hātte). His fyrmesta nama wæs hēafodburg þæs Rōmāniscan underrīces þæs naman wæs, and hit wierþ hēafodburg þæs Rīces.

And ǣrest tūnscipe wæs se stede þǣre ealdan Romaniscan ceastre in þǣm weallum. Under Ælfrede cyninge setledon þā in þǣm weallum fram hira ealdum wic, se is Ealdwic. Oþþæt þā wealla habbaþ gewiðged, sēo stōwe, ābīdeþ swā heorte and cēapung hēafodburg tō and þǣre worulde. Māre Þǣre Māran Geþinges Scild

Þæt micele ceasterisce land ymbe is Māre. Hit befēhþ nēan ealle, micele dǣlas geond Sūþrigan and dǣlas. Ofer Māran rīcsaþ þæt Māran Gerec, þæt is þæt Burgweald and sēo Samnung. Sēo sprǣc is sprǣc þe betweox þǣre 7. and 15. ieldum gesprecen wæs, on þā būað in Þēodsclande. Þes gereorde biþ and sēo sprǣc.

On wæs sēo sprǣc folces on norðerne. Ðēo wæs sārlice beclemed mid þǣre Ealdan sprǣce forþæm þe þā bā sprǣca wǣron. Asmēade ǣghwā, cūðe hit him þyncan þæt on ieldre mæðe þǣre sprǣca-andwendednesse þonne belāf. Tō bīsne cēpte innestappende -i- bē weorcwordum and bē namawordum, under þæm þe ne swā dyde. Swylce swā þæt on sægde man wurhtio for wyrhta (mid andwendednes þǣs -u- to -y- on under þæm onwegāscofnan -i- þe on belāf), stūrian for stȳran asf…

Þā Gotan wæron folc þæþ fēorr for hie worhte hefige on þæm stære þæs Rices. Sēo ǣroste infor fram be þæm Gotan gelamp on þæm 238 geare fore þis sind hie mæste dyrne. Mann ne cnawaþ gewisslice þēonon þa Gotan cwomon, ac meahtlice comon hie ærost fram ætgædere mid eallum oþrum þēowum.

Hēora spræc is sēo gecuþoste þara sprǣca, for þæm gewritum wulfes. Ēastgotan and Westgotan. Westdæl in þǣm 5 gearhunde.

In þǣm 4. gearhund fōr Gotenafolc ofer Donua in þæt Rīce and manig garmittinga wæron betwuh þissum twǣm folcum. Ðan wæron missenlice fylcas on Gotanþēod and of him gegædrode twegen micle cynedōmas, be namum Ēastgotan and Westgotan. Westgotan feahtedon hiergoden ðurh þæs Rēmiscan Rīces ēastdælas and Alrica hiera cyning abræc þā burg, and his æftergengan gesceop cynedōm on þe eall Spēna Cyningas sind of his blōd. Æfterweard cwōm Ēastgotanfolc under Ðēodrīc Cyning and slōg Eadwacer Cyning and þes Ðēodric gesceop cynedōm on Eotolwarum.