> > "Ollû mol sos irå täläðû ô Aislande ir iett!"
> > "All langauges which are spoken on Iceland is one!"
>
> I was having fun with Gutnish words above. More rightly, I should
> have either 'hin mang mál swíþiauþar' or an older 'hin mangu málu
> swíþiauþaR'. The reason are 1) 'allr' never declines weak, as the
> final -u suggests where no -u follows 'mál', and 2) final -u most
> likely fell from 'mangu' at the same time it fell from 'mál', or
> nearly so. In Dalska, the final -û in 'ollû' given above is hardly
> likely to have lived from the wiking time unto this day. Had it
> lived all the while, one would be looking to see 'molû' as well,
> following the spelling above. Truely, Dalska has either learned of
> new to pick up olden sounds once fallen from or grown in new ways.
> To the best of my knowledge, no tongue of Sandinaujô kept final -u
> is such steads beyond the early wiking time.

I agree with thee, Konrad. I do not think there is any evidence in
late runic East-Scandinavian of this -u ending surviving. Thou art
also right that it should not be nasalized if it had.

But I wonder, then, whence it came to Dalska.

Kveðja,
Haukur