Re: Does Accent Change Instrinsically?
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Date: 03/24/05
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Date: 23 Mar 2005 19:02:14 -0800
brennus wrote:
> 2) Icelandic has NOT changed considerably form Old Norse. It is so
> close to Old Norse that it still preserves Old Norse sounds like au,
> ð and þ unlike the Continental Scandanavian languages (Norwegian,
> Danish Swedish).
>
> 3) I point out that Icelanders had little contact with their kinsmen
> in northern Europe after about 1150 A.D. when the last colonists from
> Sweden and Norway arrived there. This means that no new influences
> from Norway & Sweden or from the Low German of the Hanseatic
> League reached Iceland. The few changes from Old Norse that Icelandic
> did undergo were done so in a virtual vacuum. That's all I'm saying.
Iceland was in steady and continous contact with mainland Europe after
1150 and the language was greatly influenced by and recieved many loan
words from both the Scandinavian languages and, via Hanseatic commerce,
Low German and other European languages. The language was so greatly
under foreign influence that it took a great effort by Icelandic
writers and others to clean up the language in the 19th century.
Also note that the majority of the Icelandic settlers did not come from
Norway/Sweden but from the British isles and Icelandic was also
influenced from the languages there.
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