Haukur,

I have recorded

"Göndul ok Skögul
sendi Gauta-Týr
at kjósa um konunga;
hverr Yngva ættar
skyldi með Óðni fara
ok í Valhöllu vera."

using tones (acute, balanced and grave tones):
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/gondul_ok_skogul.wav (390K)

This is a recording of phrase pairs in the last two lines
which "proves" that the tones seem to have been important in the
metre used:
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/tones_in_metre.wav (83K)

A few isolated words from the text which are pronunced in
an "awkward" way (but in my opinion quite accurate as
reconstructions):
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/valhollu.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/gautatyr.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/odni.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/yngva.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/kjosa.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/aettar.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/sendi.wav
http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/fara_vera.wav
(all are of the size 20-30K)

Haukur, what is your opinion about the use (?) of tones in metres? I
would like to hear a recording by you using the tones!

(I should remark that tones have been used in Norwegian and Swedish
for 1500 years, so they were probably used on 13th century Iceland
too.)


/Sjuler



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:

> > I have recorded a sound sample of GÖNDUL using some sort of
> > reconstructed Old Norse:
> > http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/gondul.wav
> > Note the sentence "Nuunän köm ooLe:" ("Now comes the word:",

Modern

> > Jamtlandic dialect) before the actual word. I have recorded it as

a

> > sample of my own default accent; then you may peel of my accent

from

> > the recording and add, e.g., Modern Icelandic accent if you would
> > like to (or any other accent - but I think my own should do the

work).

>
> Here's mine:
>
> http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/sounds/rpgondul.wav
> http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/sounds/ipgondul.wav
>
> Göndul ok Skögul
> sendi Gauta-Týr
> at kjósa um konunga;
> hverr Yngva ættar
> skyldi með Óðni fara
> ok í Valhöllu vera.
>
> The god of the Gautar
> sent Göndul and Skögul
> to choose among kings;
> who of Yngvi's kin
> should go to Óðinn
> and stay in Valhöll.
>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur