It sounds like an aspirated ‘r’ to me. Icelandic aspirates many consonants, so it is not too surprising to hear it there. Different people will do this to varying extents, so perhaps her pronunciation is extreme compared to the other samples on the site, which is why it sounds odd (I cannot confirm this because I did not listen to others).
Hope this helps,
R
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.
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