Re: a question for inger

From: Doug Weller (dweller_at_ramtops.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:50:46 +0000

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:43:22 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Inger E. Johansson
wrote:

>
>"David Johnson" <trolleyfan_spamfree@earthlink.net> skrev i meddelandet
>news:Xns95A16DAEA1281trolleyfanearthlinkn@207.217.125.201...
>> Doug Weller <dweller@ramtops.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:mqmep090pobarf6a9na6s3h3s470pmhhec@4ax.com:
>>
>> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:19:40 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Inger E.
>> > Johansson wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> > I haven't missed any of this. The word Norse still applies to all
>> > medieval Scandinavians. That is the way it is used in the books I
>> > have read, that is what the Oxford Dictionary of English says.
>> >
>> > Why is the Oxford dictionary wrong?
>>
>> Because it has an ISBN on it?
>
>David,
>you are abusive as usual. Anyhow Oxford dictionary never spoken of any other
>adjective interpretation for the language word Norse than Norwegian.

The Oxford Dictionary of English:
adjective: relating to ancient or medieval Norway or Scandinavia
This is the 2nd edition of what Oxford calls "the leading single-volume
English dictionary, a major new edition of the New Oxford Dictionary of
English. "

Sorry Inger, you're wrong.

 The
>text on KRS is written in a non-Norwegian e-dialect from 14th century.
>
>I must say it's asthonishing that linguists who protests and assume some
>words to be too Modern haven't done their homework. Before all KRS
>discussion started on net I asssumed that every linguist there was at least
>would have tried to look into St Birgitta of Vadstena's documents from 14th
>century. That scholars of non 14th century Swedish on the other hand have
>missed to compare Olaus Magnus brother's documentation for runes used
>locally in different parts of Sweden, that doesn't surprise me.

Doug 

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