Re: Orthography in Old Icelandic; æj, Haukur minn, hvernig var þe

From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 3901
Date: 2003-11-30

Hinn 22. nóvember 2003 lét Berglaug Ásmundardóttir þetta frá sér fara:
> Might it not be that he's simply using the oldest spelling rules for old
> icelandic (not norse), say, they first grammarians spelling? It sure looks
> to me as if he's using the oldest Icelandic vowel system I learned. Haukur
> may remember this better than I do (since I was the one drawing little comic
> series about evil umlauts chasing innoccent vowels, in class)

Well, the umlaut IS evil! I think it was Arlie who suggested the names
of ON sound changes sounded like some sort of horror movie trilogy.

The Breaking
The Mutation
The Ablaut

:)

Haukur

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