BU why are you continuing to argue for your theories - because that is what they are, we have the benefit of very learned scholars from Iceland to write for us over many many years

Could you not please give it best and perhaps stop this disruption of the studies of serious people

Patricia

 

 

 

Hi there llama,

--- In norse_course@ yahoogroups. com, "llama_nom" <600cell@..> wrote:

> In fact, in the early Middle Ages, there was so little
> difference between the dialects that were to evolve into the
> present-day Nordic languages (Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian,
> Swedish) that Icelandic writers of the 12th and 13th centuries called
> their own speech 'dönsk tunga' "the Danish tongue" and 'norroen tunga'
> or 'norroena' (later 'norræna') "Norwegian" (see Stefán Einarsson: The
> Icelandic Language, 1.1.3).

Could you be so kind to give my the Name of Icelandic writers involved or at least also the

name of the source documents.

 

[Sn. II p.42]: "en uBe þat er eins manns nafn;"

I know very well in what country we will have found uBe.

That is not Iceland.  "en Bubbi það er mans nafn;

Are you familiar with Snorra Edda II: the main source book of Rask's conclusions concerning the Icelandic tongue?   I'm as my conclusions manifest.

^ or circum flex[ibility. Does it offer two meanings.  ó=ou or á=au see also descendant å.?

Like ee is the long e sound in Dutch: But "hot" is "Heet" in  Dutch and Heit in Icelandic.

"Heet" sounds exactly the same as "heit".

But most often not capital, long Dutch "ee " sounds as "ei" Icelandic. That is as "ey" also like in "they" English.

 

Thanks Blanc Uoden.

η πετλούδα is a butterfly and sounds exactly like " í pet'alúð'a", when translittered into the Icelandic alphabet.  They look alike and sound the same when not capitals.

But Capital Delta Î" is pronounced as English "Th".

It is the capital Θ that sounds as Icelandic "þ".

Telja translettered into tell ya. Has similiar meaning like Sell- ya and selja. þú-vilja. Will-ya.  Some Riming stuff.