Re: [norse_course] œ vs. ǿ

At 9:00:49 AM on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, Tobias Ruus wrote:

> Hi.

> I'm sort of a beginner in learning the old norse language,
> so this is my first mail to this group.

> I have noticed that my dictionary uses an ø with an acute
> accent (?) where the course would use œ (not æ) or oe. For
> example in the verb 'fœra'.

> As a norwegian it lies much closer to my natural
> handwriting to use an ? than an œ, so my question is
> therefore if these two letters are interchangeable in old
> norse?

They are two different scholarly conventions for
representing the same Old West Scandinavian phoneme. (The
actual manuscripts use a variety of spellings.)

Brian