Heill Konráð,

I am quite interested in your YF writing system. I would like to know more
about this.

Dan

konrad_oddsson wrote:

> Sælir góðir nemendur!
> It is a pleasant surprise to find others with an interest in
> Gotland/Gutland and its language lurking around in the shadows
> around the corners of norse_course. Gutniska is a lovely tongue
> (forget the messy spelling found in old manuscripts and on stones).
> I have been making a special study of this tongue, which is critical
> to our understanding of the norse of the viking age and even
> earlier. Just as Icelandic contains the oldest grammar, so Gutniska
> contains the oldest sound-system. If one wants to understand the
> oldest language of the viking age, then one must make a perfect
> blend of the furthest east and the furthest west, while also
> incorporating the oldest aspects of the dialects found between these
> two extremes. Interested in ancient Gutniska? Post away. Also, if
> anyone is interested in runic writing, I have found a way to
> accurately represent any norse dialect, ancient or modern, using
> only the historically "correct" 16 letter fúþárk and spelling words
> just as they would appear on a runestone. Perhaps this sounds crazy
> to some of you that are familiar with the wide array of sounds found
> in any dialect of old norse, but I can assure you that it is not. I
> have even found a way to write norse with greater phonological and
> historical accuracy than the latin alphabet will allow, while using
> only the 16 classical runes. The language appears precisely as on an
> earlier viking age rune stone (complete with bars above and below
> the letters), while at the same time representing the language more
> accurately than the Latin will allow. If anyone is interested in
> either of these topics, then please let me know. Also, does anyone
> have any questions so far about the Grammar that I have been posting?
> Skiljið þið allt í henni? Eruð þið með engar spurnigar? Og hvað um
> formálann að Brekkukotsannál? Er hann of erfiður?
>
> Kveðja,
> Konráð.
>
>
> Sumir hafa kvæði...
> ...aðrir spakmæli.
>
> - Keth
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Daniel Bray
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School of Studies in Religion A20
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia

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