What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like
James Harbeck, This Week, 2015/03/27
One of the things I used to like to do was to read Thomas Hobbes's 1651 book Leviathan (original, and easier to read) to myself out loud, and using the spelling, imagine the cadence and the accent. More...