I know I should be using IPA standards, but I'm still not used to them yet.
Anyway, since so few can read them, I'm posting it this way for American
English speakers:

Ás - pronounced '-ouse' as in 'house' and 'mouse', first syllable is
stressed
a - not a long vowel. more like the /e/ in 'her'
trú - just like the word 'true'
ar - again like the word 'her', but with the slightest 'ah' sounded

Try saying - 'HOUSE'-'eh'-'true'-'har' faster and faster until it comes out
as one word.
There is no accent on any other syllable than the first, and you should
notice that it's hard to not stress the first syllable when it's pronounced
that way.

This is only for the Icelandic word 'Ásatrúar' because, as far as I know,
there is no such word in Old Norse, even though it may be linguistically
correct. We've had onlist discussions about this in the past.

On the other hand, as a few Icelanders have been keen to point out, if we're
going to practice in America, we might as well have our own pronunciation
for it as well, because we won't be actually practicing the Icelandic
version anyway (more than likely).

We turned 'Yeshua' into 'Jesus' and that seems to work pretty well for a lot
of people.

-Lazarus

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heiðrún Bergsdóttir" <heidur2@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] Pronounciation


> The word is spelled Ásatrú in Icelandic, and so its pronounced
Aw-sah-troo.
>
> Heiðrún
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Twm Ffresiar" <maboniii@...>
> To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:32 AM
> Subject: [norse_course] Pronounciation
>
>
> Something lately has been driving me crazy. Mostly
> it's the conflict of several people who think they
> know what they're talking about.
>
> Since there are a great many Asatruar here, I was
> wondering if the list owners, and possibly other
> knowledgable individuals would know the proper
> pronunciation of the work "Asatru" and "Asatruar."
>
> I was under the impression, and I may have just picked
> up a bad habit somewhere, that the "A" sounded like
> "Ahh"...am I wrong? Or are there certain exceptions?
>
> Thanks for addressing this,
>
> Tom
>
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