Hôker, in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/message/1670
you write:

"P.S. The 'r' ending was eventually dropped
in the continental Scandinavian languages;
but it was dropped in the spelling as well
as in the pronunciation."

I agree with you that the spelling dropped this, evidently. But many
many dialects still have the 'r' ending for, at least, adjectives.
Like in Icelandic and Faroese, a "svarabakti" is inserted, though.

Some examples:
Dalecarlian: 'ien glyr syö' (ON 'hlýr sjór'),
Gutnish: 'ann langgar dag' (ON 'langr dagr'),
Smallandic: 'en tunger stoin' (ON 'thungr steinn')

Even Bornholmish have the '-er' ending: 'enj långer manj' ('langr
madhr').

My dialect (Western Jamtlandic) had this ending in some names until
18th century, like in Önder (ON 'Eyvindr'), 'Sjuler' (ON 'Sigurdhr')
etc.
Today, ON 'hlýr sjór' would become 'n gly n sjö', instead. Sometimes
we add an extra n in the masculine case where there was an 'r':
'Artun n dag de henne' - 'This is a nice day' (Pl imp), but
'Hu e e artu e stolkja' - 'She is a nice girl'

One strange think about the 'silent r theory' is that how the modern
Scandinavian languages can have the 'r' ending (as 'ur', 'ar', 'er'
etc), when it was silent back in ON times. That really puzzles me.


/Siurdar


--- Å norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> skrivde:

> O, silent R, thou comest back to haunt me!
>
> This seems to be some particular SCA-misunderstanding. :)
> In reality the 'r' ending in Old Norse is not silent at all
> and the name Snæbjörn does not have an r-ending. If your
> 'herald' isn't okay with that tell him to talk to me ;)
>
> You can search the archives for more on this; here's one example:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/message/1670
>
> - - -
>
> I'm glad if someone has made use of my name-list.
>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur
>
>
> Hinn 06. júní 2003 lét Mark Grass þetta frá sér fara:
> > The silent "r" was added after checking the name
> > through several SCAdian heralds and discovering it was
> > another way to spell it. I would like to send my
> > thanks and the thanks of half of the newbies in the
> > Shire of Coppertree along to you though. Most of us
> > have names that we found on your list! It has proven
> > most helpful in naming new Vikings for our Shire. And
> > I actually have a copy of your list copied as a word
> > file so that I can access it when needed. Thank you
> > very much for that list once more.
> > Snaebjornr