Re: No V or W in Futhark

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, asvardhrafn@... wrote:

> Germanic W's tend to be pronounced V or VW does that help its
> like v and w pronounced at the same time without tightening
> enough to say f

The Proto-Germanic consonant that became Old Norse /v/ was
probably pronounced like English /w/, and this pronunciation
probably persisted into Proto-Scandinavian and even into the
language of the early Viking period.

Brian