Re: Icelandic pronunciation and the mainland

From: Eysteinn Bjornsson
Message: 7284
Date: 2006-10-09

--- "llama_nom" wrote:

> A question for all you Icelanders: Would you be equally likely to
> leave out the /r/ after a long vowel, e.g. in 'stjórn', 'heyrn'?

Absolutely not!

> I'm sure
> I've come across spellings such as 'eirn' for 'einn' in the 18th &
> 19th c. paper manuscripts at Saganet.

Weird, but not impossible. 18th century mss. can contain
some truly bizarre stuff ...

E.

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