[afraidfortherepublic]

no one could really understand the Canterbury Tales or Beowulf without learning what amounts to a completely different language.

And so I thought when I studied them in high school!

[RegulatorCountry]

We seemed to do OK with Chaucer in high school. I can still recall and recite some of it ... Whan that aprill with his shores soote, the droghte of march hath perced to the roote