From: Meghan Roberts
Message: 7392
Date: 2006-10-19
> Heil Konráð ok Meghan,<Snip>
> Meghan wrote: "My questions for ye all: What do you do? Why? HowWhich is approximately where I'm at.
> happy are you with this approach? What would you do if you could?"
>
> When I began, and wanting to get as far back as possible without
> running into inconsistencies due to my ignorance of the etymology, I
> settled on trying to recreate the sound of c. 1200 as best I could
> manage.
> As I learnt more vocabulary andI'm managing this for some things. But VERY few. And I'm sure with
> started to get a clearer idea of the history of the language, and the
> historical origins of the various mutated vowels, it became possible
> for me to read texts printed according to a late medieval or modern
> norm and back-engineer the vowels in my head if I wanted to sound them
> out, no doubt far from perfectly, but hopefully impriving a bit as I
> went along. I wanted to get back to earlier forms, for the reasons
> Konrad has mentioned: both for its own sake and because this helps
> with learning about the history of the language.
> Recently I've been trying to get theUn-hunh. Same here. And when I'm learning new stuff, I sometimes
> hang of switching between these two norms, c. 1200 and modern, when
> reciting old poems from memory. The tricky thing was that I'd
> memorised things at different times, with different pronunciations!
> So I sometimes have to stop and think, but really this is just and
> matter practice.
> In the light of this discussion though, I'd like to going to make anI'm quite sure I'm completely mucking up the nasals.
> effort to familiarise myself with the earier, 12th c., pronunciation.
> At the moment when I try to recreate it, I have to go very very
> slowly and constantly have to go back and correct myself over the
> nasals the open and close e, etc.
> But wouldn't it be great to learn some poems in true Viking AgeYou have a gift for understatment.
> pronunciation!