well swedish is the least compareable with old norse when it comes to spelling :b



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 4:47:37 PM on Friday, July 3, 2009, Tobias Ruus wrote:
>
> > The reason why you find Danish the hardest to read may be
> > because it is the scandinavian language that is least
> > compareable with the old norse language :)
>
> That's part of it, but part of it is that I've had the least
> practice with Danish. I'm actually probably most
> comfortable with Swedish, because there's quite a bit of
> linguistic literature in Swedish, but I definitely need a
> dictionary with all of them.
>
> Brian
>