Saxon English Translator

Alright, so Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) is like... the granddaddy of English. We're talking 450 to 1100 AD - way before knights and castles. This is when England was full of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Vikings were raiding the coasts, and Beowulf was fighting monsters in epic poems.

Here's the thing though: if you're expecting to recognize this, think again! Old English looks more like German than modern English. That's because it IS Germanic - the Angles and Saxons brought it from what's now Germany and Denmark. No French influence yet, no Latin loan words everywhere, just pure Germanic roots.

The grammar is wild too - nouns have gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), words change their endings depending on how you use them in a sentence, and there are these awesome compound words called "kennings" where they'd combine words to make poetic descriptions. Like "whale-road" for the ocean. How cool is that?

Perfect for: history nerds who want to go DEEP, understanding where English really came from, Viking and Anglo-Saxon reenactments, academic linguistics stuff, reading Beowulf in its original form, or just impressing people with how ancient you can make English sound!