I'd like to know this too.

My Icelandic language CDs and tapes pronounce it one way, but when I went to
iceland it was quite different (damn colloquialisms).

On tape it sounds like 'rzh' but really short and always as if it were a
syllable all to itself.

In person it sounded either like a half vowelized 'r' or a '-ch'
so 'Galdur' sounded either like 'Garder' or 'Gulch'

Which way is considered more proper?
And which way will keep you from getting laughed at?

-Laz

----- Original Message -----
From: "hrimalf" <hrimalf@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: [norse_course] Re: More on "silent letters"


> OK, I understand that the -r is meant to be pronounced. My next
> question is; how do I do that? Is it rolled? Is it like the english
> -er (as in speaker, softer, etc)? Is it like a vacuum cleaner type
> noise (sorry can't describe this more technically!) with teeth shut
> and lips open? Do we know?
>
> Hrimalf
>
> PS you write 'Hrimalfr' - this is a minor point but I am actually
> female so presumably it is without the -r? How do you write female
> elf? I don't really want to change my nickname as I've had it for
> years

>
> --- In norse_course@..., Haukur Thorgeirsson <haukurth@...> wrote:
> > I searched a bit for "silent r's" in Old Norse
> > and quickly found many sources (all of them SCA,
> > I think) telling tales of silent and "nearly silent"
> > (whatever that means) r's. As I stated before this
> > is incorrect. :-)
> >
> > Kveðja,
> > Haukr
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> ...aðrir spakmæli.
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> - Keth
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