I have recently learned from a new house member that there is a once a week night course for ON at Rice University. Do you know of it or are you in the class? I am hoping that it will be offered in the fall as I'd like to take it. Although, I must say, Haukur's course is wonderful and I share it with other members of my house and fellow SCA friends at our events. Also, the fantastic input from all the 'wise' people on the ON yahoo group is priceless and I enjoy the daily e-mails. One thing for sure, I may not be able to pronounce the ON properly, but I can understand what I read and am daily learning the backbone of the language...thanks to Haukur and all the knowledgeable linguists that participate in the group. Needless to say, my south Texas hearing has a difficult time with all the nasal vowels and regular vowels, and I swear my tongue falls over them instead of speaking them but I'm determined to speak it properly. That's the main reason I want to take the course at Rice, surely the teacher will encourage speaking ON in class and guide us in the proper pronunciations.
So, please, If you do know anything of the ON course at Rice, would you mind sharing the information with me?
Kveðja,
Cathy
At 01:52 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hello all!
My name is Sean, and I'm pleasantly surprised to have found an entire listserv dedicated to the discussion of ON. I was really just expecting a few websites of less than dubious quality. There is so much out there! I'm glad I consulted the internet!
Anyway, I'm currently working thorough The Waking of Angantýr. Does anyone with more than extraordinary confidence in her/his own pronunciation and inflection wish to help me with an audio recording of the work? It's only 146 lines!
I've already begun my polished translation, which begins,
A young may met a man with his herd
as the sun was setting on Munarvágr.
The herdsman said,
"Who is come all alone to this isle?
Hie you hence, and home to a hostel!"
(Let me know if you have any pointers on this wee bit at the beginning. I'm rather fond of archaïc diction, as was a somewhat hero of mine, William Morris.) I just thought I'd give a little bit to see if I'm wildly off base.
Oh, well, if there are no takers (it was, I admit, a somewhat craven request for help), that's ok - I'm very pleased to have found you lot!
How neat!
Blessings, frith, and mirth to you all.
Sean
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