In a message dated 1/25/01 2:34:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, haukurth@...
writes:

<< I can also sympathise with people who want to recite
the Eddas in an "authentic" way but even they would
in many ways be better off by imitating Sveinbjörn
Beinteinsson;) >>
I greatly respect Sveinbjoern, and I wake up with his singing of the Eddas
every day (the tape is in my alarm clock). At the same time, I strongly
disagree with your statement, and I rather stick to my more "German"
pronunciation of Old Norse. There is a stubborn Northern German for you...