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In a similar vein, here is a performance of Beowulf in Old English accompanied by music from an Anglo-Saxon lyre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ Although I don't know how much of the performance style is reconstructed.

And that pipe music was fantastic. Reminds me a lot of the style of Colin Stetson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-EsJpkG9o



And here's part of the epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs


A.Z. Foreman does reconstructions in a terrifyingly wide variety of languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H10k4Dps-s , including Early Modern English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiq6482XPE .

Ioannis Stratakis at Podium-Arts https://ancientgreek.eu/ mostly records in reconstructed Classical Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbyr6ah0h8 .


There are a number of channels on YouTube which read old English texts in the actual Old English, the way they’d be read at the time. For some reason I enjoy this a lot. Could be because I like to track down the etymology of words, and understand why the language is the way it is, rather than just accept it in its current state. I feel like this helps me to better connect with the deeper meaning of the words and “feel” of the the language. GPT4 is pretty great at etymology btw.


Thanks for the Beowulf link!

The pipe music instantly reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616PssEzrqo




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