Forget "alfr".  I'm wondering how to pronounce "Sygyrd"!

David


-----Original Message-----
From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Sygyrd Sygyrdson
Sent: Wed 10/2/2013 2:59 PM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] álfr

So, I go to look up how to pronounce álfr / álfur at
http://www.forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/is/alphabetically/page-11/
 
and the lady there pronounces it
with a "sh" sound at the end instead of an r... I ran into the same thing with a
number of other words.  Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?  It
doesn't seem to be consistent.
-Sygyrd