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(8) Snow Line
We'll be real with you: Middle English is difficult. But thousands of people have mastered the art of reading it, and so can you. You'll sound sort of like the sleepwalking Scottish zombie lovechild of Lancelot and Grendel's mother when you do it... and it will be awesome.
For resources to help you get started, see our "Best of the Web" section. We've got you covered. You can also find modern English translations of The Canterbury Tales to give you a hand, but it's so much badder to read it in the original.