From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 2000
Date: 2002-07-05
> I had a particular question about the ligature "æ" in "mæri". According to E.He really says that? Strange.
> V. Gordon, it's meant to be a diphthong like "ai" in "samurai"
> , but inNative English speakers tend not to hear the difference between their diphthong
> another recording (from Sequentia's "Edda"), it's treated as OE "æsc" (ie.
> ModE "a" in "hat"). Your pronunciation was closer to "ei" as heard in ModE
> "pay".
> Is this how it's pronounced in Modern Icelandic, a slip of the tongue,In the modern language 'æ' is a diphthong similar to that in 'samurai'.
> or how it's meant to be pronounced in ON? If it is ON pronunciation, how is
> it pronounced in ModI? Just curious...