Frisian is the closest living language to English (after Scots), and it is frequently possible for speakers of Frisian and English to communicate across language barriers. In a famous clip from Mongrel Nation, Eddie Izzard went to Fryslân and tried to speak Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons, with a Frisian farmer. Having studied both Old English as well as being a speaker of Frisian, I looked at this video from both perspectives, seeing where, and why, they were able to communicate and what caused issues with the mutual intelligibility.
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZY7iF4Wc9I
Early Medieval Frisia and Frisians Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1801761310216482/
Frisians on the Faroe Islands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUbHnnFoDk&t=32s
The Viking Age in Frisia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3SvbmAIx0M
Tell Apart Dutch, Afrikaans and Frisian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyFyO7ecEI
Frisian Flag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpVX-Wa6xs
Translate something into Old English, Old Norse, or Gothic?
https://www.fiverr.com/jamesaccombe/translate-english-to-historical-languages-and-vice-versa?fbclid=IwAR3Dw66sNPw-NEzGM0hKYHLKkgwC-Rh2WvDd5UkU7TAqh_-g2D18u7F1AHg
Music Used:
Sunday Dub - Kevin MacLeod
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