Old English(?) writing help

[BluBallz]

Can anyone try and decrypt what this word says for me please? I've tried most combinations and not really that close to a real word yet

Cheers!

 

[antijoke]

Looks like the name of a team.

Deed vs ???

 

[BluBallz]

It's "Deed of ...." I believe

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Deed Of Ea---nr-isement is all I can make out

 

[Guerrilla]

It's fairly obvious it's Eafrnnrljispmpur

 

[BluBallz]

Aha! Enfranchisement

 

[Jonny69]

Deed of Cakeretention.

I think it was something to do with fat women.

 

[Strife212]

Enfranchisement

 

[Inquisitor]

That's certainly not Old English – Old English is practically another language

 

[Reaction]

Ask oxford?

 

[batsy]

Deed of Cakeretention.

I think it was something to do with fat women.

The Cakeretention is a lie!!1!

 

[UncleRuckus]

Wonderful writing!

cahnnrljisplupui!

 

[SlugForAButt]

That's certainly not Old English – Old English is practically another language

Agreed, I don't think 1907 is really old English. I think we are lookigng at Chaucer for old English.
Just a hard to make out name I think.

EIDT: It looks like it written in some kind of pseudo-Germanic font with the first word being "cafe".

 

[Angilion]

Agreed, I don't think 1907 is really old English. I think we are lookigng at Chaucer for old English.

Chaucer is Middle English. Old English is very different indeed.

Chaucer, middle English:

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

Some different words, some different spellings, mostly readable to a modern English speaker.

Unknown author, late old English (~1000AD):

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra

I think that's been modernised to some extent. I'm fairly confident that punctuation is a later addition.

Old English originally used a runic alphabet (Futhorc) developed from Norse runes with additional runes added. Tolkien used a variation of Futhorc in The Hobbit.

Just a hard to make out name I think.

EIDT: It looks like it written in some kind of pseudo-Germanic font with the first word being "cafe".

Agreed. 1907 is very clearly modern English - this was just done for effect.

 

[SlugForAButt]

Chaucer is Middle English. Old English is very different indeed.

Quite right, my mistake.