If any kind soul out there feels like giving me a linguistic Christmas present, I've been trying to work out which Old English (but also Modern English would be very useful) vowels correspond with which Old Norse and Icelandic vowels.
I haven't got very far, though!
This is what I've managed to work out so far:
Old Norse Old English
á long o
au long ea
(e.g. ON ás and OE os, ON auðigr and OE eadig)
Hardly a stunning piece of scholarship on my part, but if anyone does have any further suggestions, I'm all ears. Or maybe you know a good web site?
Incidentally, who was it who wanted to start up a project to reconstitute frumnorræna?
I'd be absolutely delighted to help; the reason I haven't offered before is that I'm still very much a beginner, but if I can make myself useful in any way, I shall be delighted.
Cheers,
Simon
PS What did the word té mean, please. Seemingly it had become a fossil already in Old Norse times: [[Zoëga: þat er yðr jafnan í té = it is always free to you]]