Strange - Lance - very strange I thought I had
replied - I wonder if it got lost - well - if you have the New Introduction
to Old Norse it is in book one - not as good as a CD but it is in print -
would that help
Patricia
I shall keep the matter in mind and if I find anything
else I shall let you know
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006
6:55 PM
Subject: Vedr. Re: [norse_course]
Pronunciation [hypothetical]
So I assume none of you learn how to read or pronounce a form of Old
Norse. You just read it in your head. Oh
well...
Lance <lance_mcclure@ yahoo.no>
skrev:
Heill
I am curious to know how those of you who read or speak a form of
Old Norse go about learning it. What are the guidlines that you
follow? Do you use Modern Icelandic pronunciation, some sort of
Old Icelandic pronunciation, Old Norwegian, etc...? What about the
nasals, prosody, rounded vowels, etc...?
I am eager to learn more about East Norse as it was spoken by the
jómsvíkings, or at least, the common tongue in Denmark at that time
- if that's possible to know. Something else I'm curious is about
is dialects - is it known what sort of dialect variation existed in the
Viking Days? Was it similar to the current linguistic
situation today (excluding Insular Skandinavian & Finnish) in
Skandinavia, or was it even more homogenous? Were
there sociolects? -- Did both royalty and peasants speak with the
same vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, etc or could you tell a persons'
social status by their dialect?
Well, I hope I get an answer. I know that these questions may
simply be hypothetical at best. Takk fyrir.
Kveðjur,
L
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