Re: Any ON Experts in this Forum?

On 20 Feb 2007 01:54:12 -0800, calm_weather
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in sci.lang:

[...]

From what I gather, certain nouns in Icelandic which end in -ir or -ur
were just -r in Old Icelandic,

Just <-ur>: modern Icelandic adds an epenthetic <u> where ON
had simply <-r>.

(OI is not exactly ON).

The term 'Old Norse' is used in several different senses,
and one of them *is* 'Old Icelandic'. Another is 'Old
Norwegian'. Perhaps the most common is 'Old West Norse',
which includes both OIc and ONorw. Yet another is as a
cover term for both OWN and Old East Norse.

I suggest Heidi acquire a copy of "An Introduction to Old
Norse" by E.V. Gordon, [...]

Or the newer one by Michael Barnes, which is available from
the Viking Society for Northern Research.

Brian
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