God afton,

I have been thinking about posting links to sound files - or even
posting sound files - to the ONC group. I never thought of recording
the very basic (and perhaps quite frequent?) vocabulary as postulated
in the excellent lessons by Haukur et al - a very good idea of
yours ;)
Since there are different opinions on how ON was pronunced (or at
least, different dialects of the language), the best thing would be
if both me and Haukur made the recordings. This would make it
possible to avoid biases. Personally, I want to emphasize the pitch
accent (which simplifies the pronunciation of the dreaded -r ending)
and - where it is possible - nasal quality of vowels (in words like
gás ('goose'), Þórr ('Thor') etc the nasal pron. is obvious when
comparing with e.g. German).
I think Haukur should choose the words to record since he is
responsible for the lessons.

So, Haukur, what about this idea?


/Sjuler


--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Fred and Grace Hatton
<hatton@...> wrote:

> It occurred to me while listening to the Gutnish songs, that many

of us

> who would like to have more of a sense of how Old Norse was

pronounced

> would benefit tremendously from a short paragraph being posted to

the

> site read by someone who can pronounce ON that we could memorize.

This

> ideal paragraph would have the range of noun sounds that we

encounter in

> words familiar from the lessons on the site.
>
> The ON site has the poetry readings, but poetry is difficult in its
> grammar and is spoken very quickly in the readings so it is hard to
> grasp the pronunciation.
> FWIW
> Grace
>
> Fred & Grace Hatton
> Hawley, Pa.