Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

The famous fairy-tale collector Jacob Grimm formulated the rules which help modern linguists reconstruct the ancient Indo-European language.  In this episode, we look at Grimm’s Law and how the Germanic languages evolved from the original ancestral language.

TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 4 (https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HOE-Transcript-Episode004a.pdf)