> -----Original Message-----
> From: hfroelandshagen [mailto:g-tegle@...]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:57 PM
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [norse_course] Re: Pronounciation
>
>
> The grafem is the same as used with u-umlauted a's, which would
> produce something similar to English aw in "law". As for changes in
> pronunciation in general, Norwegian has remained conservative in this
> respect, and so the reconstruction is based on combining Norwegian
> and Icelandic. As far as I know, Norwegian institutions are more
> consequent in using the "correct" pronunciation, while on Iceland
> there is a tendency to use a pronunciation close to modern Icelandic.
>
>
> Havard
>
> --- In norse_course@..., "Jamie Fessenden" <jfessenden@...> wrote:
> > So, the pronounciation changed a couple times? How do we know what
> the
> > pronounciation was in the 12th century?
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Haukur Thorgeirsson [mailto:haukurth@...]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:38 PM
> > > To: norse_course@...
> > > Subject: Re: [norse_course] Pronounciation
> > >
> > > > I've heard it pronounced on a couple tapes I got of lectures
> given
> > > by
> > > > British Ring of Troth members as "Ah-sah-true" (i.e., two long
> a's,
> > > > pronounced sort of like in "father" and the u pronouned as in
> the
> > > word
> > > > "true").
> > >
> > > That would be, more or less, correct 13th century pronunciation
> > > (of a word that was not used back then).
> > >
> > > In the 12th century and earlier the first vowel would have
> > > been much different, however. It would have been something
> > > like a nasal version of the vowel in English 'awe'. Maybe
> > > close to the vowel in French 'dans'.
> > >
> > > In modern times the first vowel is a dipthong similar, indeed,
> > > to the one in English 'house'.
> > >
> > > The pronunciation of the rest of the word is the same for
> > > any century.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > The surprise, to me, after mispronouncing it for years, was
> > > > that they placed the accent on the first syllable.
> > >
> > > The accent is always on the first syllable in Norse / Icelandic.
> > >
> > > Kveðja,
> > > Haukur
> > >
> > > Sumir hafa kvæði...
> > > ...aðrir spakmæli.
> > >
> > > - Keth
> > >
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> Sumir hafa kvæði...
> ...aðrir spakmæli.
>
> - Keth
>
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