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from 11th grade English, the first 8 lines of the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. so basically, I know how to say this in (butchered) Old English:

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Old English != Middle English. Beowulf = OE. Canterbury Tales = ME. OE is, like, totally incomprehensible. First 8 lines of Beowulf:

"Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,

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monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah"