Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English

language.

This is episode 39, not lost in translation.

In this episode, we're going to explore how the early Christians in Britain used English

words to understand a religion which came to them in Latin.

This process required the first large-scale translation of foreign words into English,

but this process had to overcome two hurdles, a relatively small English vocabulary and

Germanic religious traditions which were very different from those of Christianity.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com

and you can contact me by email at kevinathistoryofenglishpodcast.com and you can follow me on Twitter

at EnglishHistPod.

And once again, a big thank you to those of you who've made donations to the podcast

through the website.

I sincerely appreciate the support.

And I have some big ideas planned for later in the year.

We're soon going to turn to the Viking invasions and the Norman Conquest and then sometime

during the summer, we're going to transition into middle English.

Meanwhile, I'm also working on a written version of the history covered in the podcast.

And my current plan is to have it available around the time that we conclude the Old

English period.

The written version will cover everything from the original Indo-European period through

the Old English period.

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