Re: Help! from Jed

well.. now i'm rummaging through old piles of notes, i see i have four different versions of this prayer, from my 'comparative germanic linguistics' course. there's gothic, old high german, old english, and that 'middle icelandic' one i just sent. they're much fun to read. if anyone wants, i can write them up... you know, sometimes i just can't help but think of all germanic languages as mere dialects... and then i try to actually speak them, and change my mind.

----- Original Message -----

From: Berglaug Ásmundardóttir

To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:46 PM

Subject: Re: [norse_course] Help! from Jed

well, here's the modern icelandic version.. i have an older one somewhere, but i'll have to look for it (it's in a plie of papers.. somewhere in my bookshelves... (oh dear, that's quite a lot of piles to search!))

berglaug

faðir vor, þú sem ert á himnum

helgist þitt nafn, til komi þitt ríki

verði þinn vilji, svo á jörðu sem á himni

gef oss í dag vort daglegt brauð

og fyrirgef oss vorar skuldir

svo sem vér og fyrirgefum

vorum skuldunautum

eigi leið þú oss í freistni

heldur frelsa oss frá illu

því að þitt er ríkið, mátturinn, og dýrðin

að eilífu

amen

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Mcharg

To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:12 PM

Subject: [norse_course] Help! from Jed

Dear All

I am preparing materials for a course I hope to run on local/regional history and the development of the English Language over the last 1500 years. As part of this course I want to show how the English vocabulary has been affected by Latin, Greek and Old Norse to such an extent that if the words derived from these languages were suddenly to disappear from our lexicon, we would find it impossible to speak or write in modern English.

For people who have no knowledge of any language other than English, I need a text common to all lanuages mentioned above to show how much of the vocabulary of each has been incorporated one over the centuries, one way or another, into English. I think the most familiar text will be the Lord's prayer - 'Our father which art in heaven'......etc. I have copies of these in Old English, Latin and Greek but not in Old Norse. Could any of our Scandinavian colleagues oblige by sending this text through the e-mail?

I would be very grateful.

Cheers

Jed

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