From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 3215
Date: 2003-06-10
>> "And how come the distribution of actually pronounced <-ur> inWhen I wrote the above I was not aware of the various wacky Swedish
>> Icelandic is almost identical to where <-r> in On is recorded?"
>
> One reason I posted my post was that I pointed out that there are
> many modern Scandinavian dialects, not only the Icelandic ones, that
> have preserved the 'r' ending in perfect shape (at least for the
> adjectives and to some extent strong masculine names such as:
> then it could have been just an odd, local mutation. But even todayI wonder if this is in some part due to German influence.
> in modern Swedish we may very well say 'en långer dag' (ON langr
> dagr), 'en blåer båt' (blár bátr), even though it is a bit dialectal
> and illegal in formal written Swedish.
> Thus, the silent r theory must be bogus, of course.Certainly. I suspect it has come about from people seeing different