--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Denvervikings"
> <denvervikings@...> wrote:
> > A friend wants to know how is "Stýrimaðr" pronounced? He is
trying
> to chose his Viking name. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm
>
> In reconstructed ON pronunciation, something like [sty:rImaDr]. The
> [r] was nonsyllabic. Primary stress on first syllable; secondary
> stress on last (=third).
>
> In modern Icelandic pronunciation, something like [sti:rIma:DYr].


> Same stress pattern.

That is to say, the main and secondary stresses on the 1st and 3rd
syllables, as before, but with a fourth unstressed syllable at the end.