It would be like a regional dialect, in your opinion?
Pronouncing it like Vinns/Americans. That would occur
anyways, in my opinion, if ever anything like O.N. was
revived for common use.

Tom


--- Lazarus <lazarus@...> wrote:

> 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:
>
> �s - pronounced '-ouse' as in 'house' and 'mouse',
> first syllable is
> stressed
> a - not a long vowel. more like the /e/ in 'her'
> tr� - 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 '�satr�ar'
> 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: "Hei�r�n Bergsd�ttir" <heidur2@...>
> To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [norse_course] Pronounciation
>
>
> > The word is spelled �satr� in Icelandic, and so
> its pronounced
> Aw-sah-troo.
> >
> > Hei�r�n
> >
> > ----- 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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