Hi Sygyrd,

The other words in the list ending in ur were pronounced correctly (the ones I looked at anyway). Perhaps she is reading a different form of the word and it has been incorrectly matched with this one.

I'm presuming you have a pronunciation guide for Icelandic and are using that site to practise with.
In some respects the (reconstructed) pronunciations for ON in the grammar books are easier to follow than using modern Icelandic when reading. But of course it is handy having living speakers too.

All the best,
Michael

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From: Sygyrd Sygyrdson <sygyrd@...>;
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>;
Subject: [norse_course] álfr
Sent: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 9:59:34 PM

 

So, I go to look up how to pronounce álfr / álfur at
 
and the lady there pronounces it with a "sh" sound at the end instead of an r... I ran into the same thing with a number of other words.  Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?  It doesn't seem to be consistent.

-Sygyrd