Middle English

[Neon Knight]

Middle English describes dialects of English in the history of the English language between the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the three centuries between the late 12th and the late 15th century.

Middle English developed out of Late Old English in Norman England (1066–1154) and was spoken throughout the Plantagenet era (1154–1485). The Middle English period ended about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press to England by William Caxton in the late 1470s. By that time the variant of the Northumbrian dialect (prevalent in Northern England) spoken in southeast Scotland was developing into the Scots language. The language of England as used after 1470 and up to 1650 is known as Early Modern English.

First, listen to it without looking at the screen to find how much you can understand:

[Xochi]

Around 30-40% not looking

[Comte Arnau]

He who made the video should have left it written with the ME spelling, not with pseudophonetic modern English words.

The farthest in time, the more Germanic less commercial it sounds.