Re: Snæbjörn Hákonsson - pronunciation

Hinn 09. júní 2003 lét sjuler þetta frá sér fara:

> Here is a sound file (~40K) where I try to pronunce the
> name 'Snæbjörn Hákonsson':
> www.geocities.com/jepe2503/snaebjorn.wav
> I hope that it will help to some extent. It is not an exact Old Norse
> pronunciation, but has there ever been a standard? Of course not, so

*chucklegiggle* :)

Your 'á' is more round than mine, your 'æ' is closer to [æ] than mine
and the accent is significantly different.

But it doesn't seem unlikely that the 'á' was a bit round and definitely
so in the eastern dialects, the 'æ' may well have been IPA [æ] though I
usually think of it as SAMPA [E] and the accent certainly has old roots.

> my pronunciation would probably be consider as a not too strange
> dialectal pronunciation by a 13th century norseman.

I suppose you're right!

Haukur