--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Blanc Voden" <uoden@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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.

Have a read of this too, if you're interested.

http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0096.png