Thank you very much for the spelling but I'm still
half unsure of how the end of it is pronounced. I've
always heard Bach and Loch pronounced Bak and Lock.
And the short U and long E thing has me confused
again! I know I'm being a real pain on this but it
really is confusing to me. As for reading the old
stories. My persona is based on a conglomeration of
pieces of several of the Saga and known information.
I've checked my persona untirely with two individuals
who have their Laurels for being Viking. Unfortunately
I don't have their emails to contact them concerning
my last name. And as for what I'm puttin in to the
Heralds the actual name is Snaebjorn Haakonsson called
Snarox.
I had found an Icelandic dictionary but wasn't sure if
the words in it would have been correct for the time
period. The name would have been Fljottroxi. Now how
it described to pronounce Ox in their would have made
it sound rughly like saying Ucs. Is this how it would
be pronounced for this spelling as well? If so then I
have at least gotten my name down and can work on
learning the rest of the language!
Thank you all again
Snaebjorn
--- "Bottom (METRO)" <metro_bottom@...> wrote:

> I've talked with my brother, the computer
> geek-a-holic, and he's told me
> that I can now send 8-bit ASCII code. Thanks, D!
>
> And now to my response:
>
> > Thank you all for the wonderful help and rather
> > extensive language course. I don't want to sound
> rude
> > but can someone please tell me what most of that
> meant
> > in English?! I wasn't an English major by any
> means.
> > And I've yet to actually know two major things
> from
> > these messages; 1. What would I use to say
> Swiftaxe in
> > Icelandic as a byname? 2.How do I pronounce it?
>
> 1. The name 'Snar�x' is recommended, but sounds
> strange to most people
> who speak Icelandic.
>
> 2. Snar�x = SNAR in the English world 'snarl' and UE
> pronounced at the
> same time with the U short and the E long, and then
> the X like the CH in
> Bach or loch, but not CK in lock or kick. It's a
> softer sound than K,
> like you're snoring softly.
>
> One final note: read some of the old stories. Those
> will give you a much
> better understanding of the times, and will help you
> fill in your
> persona.
>
> > You see I speak no other language but English and
> that
> > badly. I speak American which any will tell you is
> not
> > by any means a language of its own and a rip off
> of
> > nearly every other! I would like to learn to speak
> Old
> > Norse, of this I have no doubt. But I must learn
> from
> > the very beginning. Starting with the absolute
> basics.
> > It truly is unfair to start someone in the middle
> of a
> > language and expect them to know how the Spanish
> trill
> > their R! I am not trying to be disrespectful in
> the
> > least but I'm so lost now that I'm considering
> > changing my persona to an English man so I can say
> my
> > own name!
>
> That would be advisable... Most SCA-ers speak the
> languages from their
> personae (in my experience), but it's not a
> requirement. I'd suggest a
> name like Hawk (Haukur) or Thor's Stone
> (Thorsstein), as these are much
> easier and have a more historic basis, which makes
> name justification at
> Laurel level much easier, as these were (and
> largely, still are) fairly
> common names.
>
> Not being an SCA-type myself, however, I much prefer
> names that others
> can say, such as my own: Ragin Bragisbj�rn. I
> usually correct people on
> my last name: people in the USA tend to pronounce
> the last five letters
> as 'byo-urn' instead of the more correct
> single-syllable 'beerrn', so I
> take the opportunity to gently educate them.
>
> Learning Old Norse (a.k.a. Old Icelandic, in this
> case) will require a
> large amount of study in language mechanics in order
> to understand how
> certain differences are made. We categorize them
> into sections such as
> 'verb' or 'noun' or 'adjective', etc., so that we
> know how to organize
> them into cohesive sentences.
>
> As for the Spanish trill, it's typical for them to
> say all R's with a
> slight trill, and most people have at least a little
> experience hearing
> a Spanish person speak, so it was an assumption on
> everyone's part here
> (my own included). If you don't know how they say
> their R's, then might
> I suggest downloading some Spanish MP3's?
>
> > So can someone please help me with just a simple
> > spelling and BASIC pronunciation thereof of the
> name
> > Swiftaxe.
> > Sincerely,
> > Snaebjorn
>
> Did. Like it?
>
> <snipped remainder>
>
>
>

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