Open University: The History of English in Ten Minutes

Amusing overview of the subject.  Would also recommend this series...if you have seven hours or so to spare rather than ten minutes...

Nolwenn Leroy: Tri Martolod

Guess that language...

Via piece in which we learn that the English of Shakespeare's time spoke not, as we had been told recently with an American accent, but in a sort of Irish mumble.  Uh, okay.  Interesting enough summary still.