This is the original Germanic tongue of the Franks, before they abandoned it for the Romance dialect that would become French. Here's Psalm 61 (60 in Douay-Rheims and King James bibles) read in Old Low Franconian, the Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch. While Dutch comes from the western dialect of Old Low Franconian, the dialect of this recording was spoken in the late first millennium in the area roughly around Limburg and Aachen, where Charlemagne had his capital.
Here's the text:
2. Gehôri, got, gebet mîn, thenke te gebede mînin.
3. Fan einde erthen te thi riep, so sorgoda herte mîn. An stêine irhôdus-tu mi;
4. Thû lêidos mi, uuanda gedân bist tohopa mîn, turn sterke fan antscêine fiundis.
5. Uuonon sal ic an selethon thînro an uueroldi, bescirmot an getheke fetharaco thînro.
6. Uuanda thu, got mîn, gehôrdos gebet mîn, gâui thu erui forhtindon namo thînin.
7. Dag ouir dag cuningis saltu gefuogan, jâr sîna untes an dag cunnis in cunnis.
8. Foluuonot an êuuon an geginuuirdi godis; ginâthi in uuârhêide sîna uua sal thia suocan?
9. Sô sal ic lof quethan namin thînin an uuerolt uueroldis, that ik geue gehêita mîna fan dage an dag.
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