(NOTE: I am neither a professional linguist nor a professional historian, and this video is for entertainment purposes only. Some things may not be totally correct.)

The evolution of the English language at various stages throughout the Middle Ages, including:

• The opening of Beowulf from c. 700 A.D., written in the earlier stages of Old English.
• The Lord’s Prayer in later Old English, around the 990s to 1000s A.D.
• The earliest surviving secular song in the English language known as “Miri it is while sumer ilast” from around 1225 A.D., roughly 160 years following the Norman Conquest. This was an earlier form of Middle English.
• A song from the late 13th century known as “Edi beo thu, Heuene Quene”.
• One of the earliest surviving secular love songs written in Middle English between about 1290 to 1320.
• The first 18 lines of “The Prologue” in “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in later Middle English in the 1380s.
• A song written in Late Middle English around the 15th century known as “Abyde, I hope it be the beste”. This is around the time the Great Vowel Shift began to take place.

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