It's "Middle High German"*, spoken from around 1050 - 1500 A.D.
Breaks your tongue and is a pain to write. But quite fun, unless you have to learn a whole poem like that by heart. >_>
Think Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', just with more gratuitous pencil strokes. "A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie."
Jeebus, I know it's time for bed when I start quoting Chaucer. >_>
Argh, my translation is awful in places. I should fix it up tomorrow morning.
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Breaks your tongue and is a pain to write.
But quite fun, unless you have to learn a whole poem like that by heart. >_>
Think Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', just with more gratuitous pencil strokes.
"A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie."
Jeebus, I know it's time for bed when I start quoting Chaucer. >_>
Argh, my translation is awful in places. I should fix it up tomorrow morning.
* so the online dictionary tells me.
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