In Search of King Arthur
- Thread starter granfire
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I'll sit down later tonight and watch the whole video. what I have watched so far is interesting and well done
Michael Wood is ever an entertaining historian; his TV work is very good as well as informative.
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/mike.html
Mind you, given my weakness for the fairer sex, I tend to prefer Bettany Hughes
. http://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/the-spartans
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/mike.html
Mind you, given my weakness for the fairer sex, I tend to prefer Bettany Hughes
. http://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/the-spartans
OP
granfire
Sr. Grandmaster
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I caught it by chance: I have no idea why the TV was turned to PBS, because we hardly ever watch that channel...
I found it rather interesting, from both the historical as well as political angle.
And I realized I could probably understand old English rather well, since it is very closely related to 'Alt-Hochdeutsch' and 'Mittel-Hochdeutsch', the ancient versions of my mother tongue.
Sadly it won't help in Cornish nor Welsh....
(reading a historical mystery novel by Pat Mvintosh, I got into the medieval Scottish rather well when I allowed my dialects to surface..)
I found it rather interesting, from both the historical as well as political angle.
And I realized I could probably understand old English rather well, since it is very closely related to 'Alt-Hochdeutsch' and 'Mittel-Hochdeutsch', the ancient versions of my mother tongue.
Sadly it won't help in Cornish nor Welsh....
(reading a historical mystery novel by Pat Mvintosh, I got into the medieval Scottish rather well when I allowed my dialects to surface..)
