Forget "alfr".  I'm wondering how to pronounce "Sygyrd"!

David


lol.  All other recognizable permutations of Sigurd were taken when I took the handle years ago.  Funny thing is, I've run across another sygyrd online, so apparently I wasn't the only one that had the idea. 

Thank you everyone for the help with álfr.  My heart lies with wanting to learn the reconstructed ON pronunciations, but resources one can listen to seem to be pretty sparse.  Whereas, if I learn the Modern Icelandic pronunciations, I figure I kill two birds with one stone.  Maybe if I go to Iceland one day it'll come in handy.  And thus, to answer a question, I was using that website for help with pronunciation. 

I've found the recordings and readings on our website.  Are there any other pronunciation guides that you use online?  I find that reading how to pronounce something and understanding it intellectually is quite different for me than hearing it.


---In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, <norse_course@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

RE: [norse_course] álfr

Forget "alfr".  I'm wondering how to pronounce "Sygyrd"!

David


-----Original Message-----
From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Sygyrd Sygyrdson
Sent: Wed 10/2/2013 2:59 PM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] álfr

So, I go to look up how to pronounce álfr / álfur at
http://www.forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/is/alphabetically/page-11/
 
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