Actor Jan Decleir is taught Old English by Leiden prof

Saint Boniface, the missionary killed in 754 at Dokkum (Friesland, The Netherlands), was born in Wessex (Great-Britain). He spoke Old English and therefore so does actor Jan Decleir, portraying the saint in the new Dutch movie De Schaduw van Bonifatius [Boniface’s shadow]. The translation of the dialogues into Old English and Old Frisian was done by Leiden University professor dr. Bremmer.

Bremmer – senior lecturer of English Philology and professor extraordinary of Frisian – was asked to read the script by the scriptwriter and to make authentic improvements to the texts where possible. After reading it, he decided to translate all dialogues into their historically correct languages. He even made some additions. Read more … (in Dutch)