How to ACTUALLY pronounce names from Norse Mythology (Icelandic)

[@EquinoxEP]

Depressed American: I wish I was never born. Depressed Scandinavian: I wish I was never bjørn.

[@sararamonajohansson]

"I wish I was never a bear"? Alrighty then!

[@virtualarmageddon6232]

I too wish I was never bear 😭🐻

[@martinet1985]

Depressed American Grammar Nazi: I wish I had never been born.

[@khalidkim1314]

Unless it's Bjorn Ironside

[@trashyalice1756]

Ophøre

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

"What is Thor hammer's name?" " *J O H N A T H A N ?* "

[@mettemaessen3007]

Jorge Moral Ruiz ...Tim!

[@tylerkiehn6498]

@@mettemaessen3007 I love the internet for adopting this movie.

[@opossumsarentrodents5550]

Paul Rudd is cool

[@ruufiss9922]

117

[@axoth5619]

Mjölner

[@NEARReiCtor8799]

When you are naming IKEA furniture and you accidentally summon Jörmungandr.

[@rafaelchang6570]

Hehehe

[@who7781]

As a sweed its so funny to hear people trying to say the words ahaha

[@Tslc99]

This comment...I have no idea what you summoned but that was hilarious 🤣

[@isaacburdwell9651]

Tahnia Besaw a serpent that wraps it self around Midgard (earth) and is one of the largest monsters in Norse mythology. He is the child of Loki and brother of Fenrir and Hel.

[@NoneMcNobody]

@@isaacburdwell9651 also known as Justin Beiber.

[@Turkeylipedlotlizards777]

I am from America and I am not offended at all. I actually enjoy learning the correct way to pronounce words. So thank you for putting this video up

[@je-freenorman7787]

America is not a country Learn it? know it

[@lisalaporte5319]

Thank you! I get so annoyed when people don’t pronounce things properly

[@oraetlabora1922]

The English version is also correct.

[@Halbairn]

The greatest Norse name of all. *Jonathan*

[@thanosthanos7839]

D Sauce Harold

[@veronicae2291]

No... Sverker

[@anayaj7163]

😂

[@jamesraymondcornwell6854]

*Jonathan Joestar ?*

[@Konsti18K]

@@jamesraymondcornwell6854 JOJO

[@dutch5580]

Well Chris is an Aussie....in Australia Thor's Hammer is called "Mate".

[@nigelpixel6301]

Curious Gaming that made me laugh aha

[@klausen1604]

:D :D :D

[@crispykfc454]

he legit hung it on a coatrack once lmao

[@christianmcbrearty]

I'm an Aussie and I can confirm this is true 😂

[@Ocean.Joe1493]

This seriously made me laugh so hard!!!

[@AlwaysTiredII]

Icelandic: Rolls the r Spanish: *Finally a worthy opponent*

[@devourtheirsouls]

*I got jabbed in the eye with a saxophone* dude, you ever heard Bulgarian?

[@toch0418]

Our battle will be legendary

[@sergioribeiro3170]

Like português

[@Kacka-on2dg]

Well obviously you've never heard of Czech republic

[@kia2065]

Every other country except the US*

[@RRKS]

It's pretty crazy how things can change so drastically depending on region. I'm Swedish and there is a very clear difference on how you prenounce them here

[@andyarken7906]

And I have my doubts about "the sagas were written down here, so our modern pronunciation is more correct than the one in the countries these religions originated".

[@connorandrews2859]

What´s the name of Thor´s hammer?" "Jonathan?" Made my day. xDD

[@trinket746]

Well, americans dont want to pronounce foreign words corectly, because that would signal some kind of respect to the country in question.

[@dozadry]

@@trinket746 so true. They think it is enough to speak 1 language.

[@momo23461]

@@trinket746 😭😭💀💀😆

[@kradikt666]

Paul rudd is funny as

[@arizonasucculent8632]

@@trinket746 that or they aren't from that country/culture. Not everyone is as racists as you jack ass.

[@jessejames1330]

This reminded me of Hermoine telling Ron how to pronounce Leviosa

[@Eskimokisses5411]

Jesse James except Hermione was using clear words and diction. Icelandic seems to be very slurred and almost like you are under water because it’s hard to hear any specific letter sounds.

[@mrfunatparties6763]

@@Eskimokisses5411 being fun at parties is my hobby so fuck off

[@Xxhermitxxrs]

LeViOSAaaaaaaaAAAaaAaAh

[@alanaterrel9914]

I said it the way hermione did lol

[@Makkaru112]

@@Eskimokisses5411 Losing an accent with a rich rich history is truly why many places outside iceland and other countries like it... many things are lost. Such as particular sort of familt values etc.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

Hrafna: "You need to roll the r's" Spanish dude: *Hold my beer i got this*

[@moonlily1]

Why does he have a bear? And how am I supposed to hold it? Is it a cub?

[@wyqtor]

They even have their own version of Thor - Zorro!

[@danihevia2381]

JAJAJAJAJ

[@gianz73]

@@wyqtor Muahuahaha!

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

@@moonlily1 Oof

[@XcaliburReborn]

Old languages are beautiful. Norse, Japanese and Welsh I think are some of the nicest sounding languages to the ears. I could listen for hours it’s so soothing.

[@rebound-vp4tu]

My top three are Norse, Japanese and Russian. :) Let's learn them all!

[@TiestoCalvinHarris]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇵

[@wendyHew]

The English of today is a mixture of old English, Norse and some French words

[@scottysstuff7806]

Iceland: I have the hardest to pronounce names in the world! Wales: Hold my Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

[@vanessza1898]

Hungarians can swear for 20 minutes without saying the same words. I am from there 🇭🇺🇭🇺

[@gaborkalmar6022]

Oh and if Hungary, let me mention the word megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért.

[@niedersacksen]

Aye I study all this languages XD a major in celtic and a minor in scandinavian

[@_djob1303]

Donaudampfschiffahrtkapitänsmützenzulieferungsfirmenlastkraftwagen

[@wessley4606]

@@emu816841 it's a train station not a town.

[@cyrilgigee4630]

Ah, yes. Odin's wife, *Frick.*

[@ynntari2775]

Freak

[@MidnightLabyrinth12]

I could just imagine trying to not curse in front of a bunch of kids and accidentally summoning her XD

[@catiebrown2890]

Lmao

[@NoU-pf8fc]

My thoughts exactly

[@atmo-sphere6799]

*The Frickening*

[@fimbulwinter-outdoor]

"You have to roll the R!" German guy: "Ah sh*t, here we go again..."

[@missymoonwillow6545]

lol, i just spit out my pumpkin juice!

[@imaysin97]

I don't get it but I need to know....please.

[@434outdoors]

@@imaysin97 grand theft auto 5

[@imaysin97]

@@434outdoors actually the quote is from GTA San Andreas said by CJ at the start of the game. I was asking about the German guy telling about the rolling of R. Never mind just got it.

[@TheMistressdivine]

Good thing we get the ö correct

[@mikaelwojciechowski7281]

Just for fun, I thought I'd add the names with their Swedish spelling 3:08 - Oden 3:25 - Frigg 3:51 - Loke 4:07 - Tor 5:01 - Mjölner 5:17 - Heimdall 6:16 - Nidavellir (sometimes also referred to as svartalfaheim if I remember correctly)

[@goatmansasquatch1485]

Odin, Mjølner, Heimdal 🇳🇴

[@Americansaxon3619]

Ænglisc: Woden & Þunor

[@christophercary9918]

VALHOLL. Correct?

[@idajohansson6921]

@@christophercary9918 Valhalla it is in Swedish

[@peterkofot4328]

@@idajohansson6921 skulle nog säga att valhall är korrekt

[@tomazito2038]

-Roll the R! Me, a portuguese: _-caRRRalho!!!_

[@Paulo-fx4uj]

Paulista né hahahahahahha

[@vvvantonio]

Rio: caralhohww!!!

[@ricardogomes6898]

Hahahahaha foda

[@joao2669]

@@Paulo-fx4uj És burro ?? "Me, a portuguese:" deve ser brasileiro entao

[@pepethefrog5102]

PoRRa, maluco é bRabo

[@SuperCIBoo]

Icelandic: Loki American: Low Key

[@juresaiyan]

ROFL

[@fatcatinatuxedo7274]

Ayy sabaton

[@SuperCIBoo]

@@fatcatinatuxedo7274 heyy

[@fatcatinatuxedo7274]

@@SuperCIBoo heyyyy

[@nicnaknoc]

😂😅👍🤣

[@blacksun2923]

Rocket: Nidavellir is real??!! Drax: Thats a made up word. Thor: All words are made up.

[@sportmynd]

Icelandic is also the only language that is closely identical to Old Norse::::::Og ég hafði mjög gaman af þessu framburðar veseni en samt gaman að heyra Ameríkana bera fram þessi orð. ( Þessi hnífur er þungur ,,,,,, Hann á að vera þungur. Þetta er klassískt )

[@TheCrazyker]

@@sportmynd but the Sami never changed at all

[@kayleighkuhlay]

As an American trying to teach norse mythology to my kids (and being completely foreign to it myself), I LOVED this video. SO HELPFUL. Thankyou for saving me from my American butchering of names!

[@je-freenorman7787]

America is not a country Do not teach your children until you learn that?

[@kayleighkuhlay]

@@je-freenorman7787 people living in the United States of America frequently refer to our country as America for short. I do know the correct name for my country but thank you for your concern.

[@je-freenorman7787]

You people are so selfish and clueless it hurts everyone. Its not for short, its to confuse you. So you never realize, you are a servant in the Holy Roman Empire. You dont have your own country, sorry. Religion is a scam. The term Western Culture does not refer to USA. Its referring to Western Europe and Christiantiy , which actually comes from the Middle East, which is actually South Western Asia. It makes no difference what you believe. @@kayleighkuhlay

[@je-freenorman7787]

Did you know the thing you call your country, is British and Roman? @@kayleighkuhlay

[@je-freenorman7787]

Anyone born in the West Indies today is considered a Native American @@kayleighkuhlay

[@dantemorales2493]

Her: You have to roll the R Me a Spanish speaker: my time has come

[@Bilbo..Baggins]

Lmao same here I was like Hold my ceRRRveza

[@sarvagyapandey3514]

Indians: Hold my Chai

[@gabrielvalentoniguelfi8945]

kkkkkkk me, a portuguese speaker also having an easy time. lol

[@joeriv1568]

Spanish here😂😂😂 I thought the same

[@jonbertocchi173]

For reals

[@andreoskisgoda]

"Very strong R" Spanish people: Piece of cake

[@grumpycat2305]

Noo, it's hard bc they have like a little twist that we don't hahaha

[@andreoskisgoda]

@@grumpycat2305 yo solo escucho rrrrrrr y eso no es dificil

[@jay5010]

@@grumpycat2305 In portuguese the r sound isn´t as strong as it is in spanish, but it´s similar enough and the icelandic r sounded pretty similar to ours. Not sure what you meant by twist? Dunno, maybe I'm hearing it wrong.

[@grumpycat2305]

@@jay5010 It's more like a gr, than a rr

[@shesh_o]

He is fucking correct, rolling the "R" for us is a piece of cake. Maybe grumpy cat was going for the pronunciation of one r, like "ruido", but the one that sound like them is the double r. Like "carro". Say carro grumpy cat, now say Frigg. Easy AF.

[@SLV-Cr0w]

She's right, "Ragnarok" does sound pretty cool in Icelandic.

[@MissMoontree]

I was hoping it would sound cool but my first language wired me to think it sounds ver very wrong. Because the last part sounds like "ruk" to me, it sounds... well... like something I shouldn't say in front of kids.

[@williamrandolph1566]

The irony of her chuckling over the way Americans mispronounce Icelandic words and then herself mispronounces several American words during her short discourse here.

[@Ulyana0b]

I wish you could hear Russian version. It's much COOLler.

[@ollrich]

Ragnarök sounds almost the same in German...

[@KyleHong]

Tbh, I think all the names sounded nice in Icelandic. But, I can't roll my Rs.

[@axelmelgarejo9648]

Now I'm interested in learning Icelandic, I love the LL and the "rolling" R pronunciation Thank you!

[@ulrichkristensen4087]

Rolling r is very germanic

[@-SUM1-]

@@ulrichkristensen4087 Not really. Many Germanic languages don't have it. It's more Romance, Slavic, etc.

[@ulrichkristensen4087]

@@-SUM1- no the rolling r is very germanic, but it is indo european

[@dianaargueta9015]

When you realize the spanish version was actually pronuincing the names in the correct way

[@ayestaz7310]

Yaaaas👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@uwunawu]

Ai siiiiiii

[@denyseramirez6297]

I know right? 😂

[@Athen-cz1zs]

Wait but it in Icelandic the double L makes a “K” sound but in Spanish the double L makes a “Y” sound

[@IronJuan1]

Truuuu

[@humna3004]

3:08 - Odin 3:25 - Frigg 3:51 - Loki 4:07 - Thor 5:01 - Mjolnir 5:17 - Heimdal 6:16 - Nidavellir

[@K_SID]

7:04 Ragnarok

[@yutisima]

thanks

[@theaxefather8017]

Godsend

[@levioor7383]

Thanks! Was so longwindy haha

[@jeffthorson9074]

Looks like I've been mispronouncing my own name all these years.

[@IaMSatanuS]

Every Icelandic word sounds like a Death Metal band to me.

[@aliciagregoire9971]

Imagine the most epic metal song being called "Chocolate" in icelandic 😂😂😂

[@joaquinaprevosti9458]

JAJAJJJAJA

[@cloudisred]

😂😂😂

[@jesusfreaklol1]

I mean that makes sense

[@Born2Losenot2win]

MUSTAKRAKISH MUSTAKRAKISH MUSTAKRAKISH!!!!! YWWWWWWAAAAAAAAARr (be sure to role the R, very important)

[@celerya8365]

could you do more of these? i’m a complete norse mythology nerd and this was really interesting to me, i’d love to know how to say more norse names correctly. maybe do how to pronounce each of the nine worlds + yggdrasil

[@worldserpent731]

Well you should know a lot of what she has said is completely wrong. Norse Mythology predates the accidental founding of Iceland by Vikings by at least 130 years or longer. Iceland wasn't founded until 830, and Norse Mythology's creation happened around 5th century to 7th century. It was based on Germanic teachings of mythology from Greek/Roman Mythology and even Irish mythology.

[@virginiaordaya]

Oh we could go on all day with this. I’m Irish and a bunch of our cities are named for Scandinavian words. Even Dublin comes from black water - so ignore this nonsense and enjoy learning to pronounce the words and names however suits you. The Icelandic texts are probably the oldest ones surviving so if you like the words Icelandic by all means enjoy them that way.

[@thethespian12]

I came here specifically to comment the same. Would love to hear more mythical pronunciations, especially the nine realms. Considering Icelandic is the language most etymologically similar to old Norse, I’d say it’s the best option we have at pronunciation.

[@je-freenorman7787]

The Gads are all planets Formerly called The Wandering Stars

[@epicveve]

"What is the name of Thor's hammer?" Paul Rudd: "Jonathan?"

[@lucas-xf7rc]

Paul rudd being Paul rudd...

[@vegarbergum9268]

Mjolnir u idiot

[@epicveve]

@@vegarbergum9268 *Mjölnir if you wanna call other people out at least spell it correctly 🤭

[@vegarbergum9268]

Dan Blyth u good?

[@vegarbergum9268]

Jin yeah sure i’ll remember that next time thanks

[@Dragonid]

Icelandic: Rolls the "R" Spanish: Finally a worthy opponent Meanwhile in Czechia: That's so cute

[@divyak9980]

I speak none of these languages but consume media in them and this comment made me laugh so hard. some languages really find it impossible to roll their Rs.

[@rakeshiyer5637]

Is that how the name Rolls Royce invented??

[@aaro50]

Finland has entered the chat: PERRRRRKELE!!

[@pametorrescortes8737]

Rayos

[@AenarCZ]

True :-D

[@joshuatyler4657]

My dog: *barks* Hrafna: "It's bjark"

[@sebastiancalvey1226]

Me: 😹💀👻

[@HLA-y24]

Haha... 🤣 😅

[@HLA-y24]

Haha... 🤣 😅

[@007speedcuber]

In icelandic it's 'voff'

[@disa5641]

So fun fact we have a few names that start like that, the original word/name Björk (a type of tree) and Bjarki (I know there are more but these are the only ones I could think of right now)

[@binaryglitch64]

I am very proud of the people who brought those words to English they did a very good job of simulating the sound as closely as possible with the sounds of a lovable in the English language. I am a polyglot, I speak a lot of languages, those words are translated as close as possible. You expect too much from an English tongue that is not used to making certain sounds.

[@JacobvsRex]

This

[@JacobvsRex]

Nobody pronounces words from other languages in their language the same, they pronounce it in their accent etc. Regardless of what language you’re speaking. Regardless it’s fun to hear how these words are pronounced in Icelandic. I’ve never heard a Russian or Spanish newscaster slow down when they get to an American name and try to pronounce it in a perfect American accent…

[@je-freenorman7787]

English is a Germanic language The Saxons and the Angles mixed to become the English Eng-Land means Land of Angles

[@comradeboris167]

Hrafna: *pronounces Thor correctly* Me, a Slavic person: t..t.. Perun

[@xardasnecromancer590]

Actually, I think Strzybóg or Świętowit should be much easier for them ;)

[@kain88tm]

Currently Reading "Perun the God of Thunder"

[@shadymusic240]

Triglav the god of mischief

[@yodathemassshooter5161]

We gave papa Perun away for Jesus

[@vasilisasavicka4317]

Me, a Baltic person: Aya... a... Perkunas

[@bas919]

People who disliked aren't worthy of lifting the Jonathan.

[@yousufrazwan9583]

ah yes... rudd

[@alexandramoss3015]

This made me laugh far too much.

[@zxidi]

bjørn again

[@jfilm7466]

Or smoke the Geoffrey 😅. Get Him to the Greek.

[@panillya]

hi, brother Wojak

[@hongtse6723]

I like Jane Foster's assistant calling the hammer "mju mju" like she gave up pronouncing it.

[@rafaelchang6570]

Hahaha the cat! Meow meow

[@NicholasBrakespear]

First time I saw that scene on DVD, I had to rewind and watch that moment again, because I thought I'd misheard. But no, she just... doesn't even try to say it right. And they kept that. They didn't have her redo it in post or something.

[@umourico3751]

@@NicholasBrakespear that was scripted, check the script writing again ;)

[@kalimbalove1912]

Mju mju? Prada? Lol

[@NicholasBrakespear]

@@umourico3751 It was dubious writing. If it had been a recurring joke - that in more audible moments, she always had trouble saying the name - then it would have made sense. But I really don't remember that being the case. So it came across as just being the actress screwing things up.

[@KissTheGreat]

This is so interesting that the LL sound in Icelandic is almost identical to the sound it makes in Welsh!

[@robinjabroni7006]

Everyone knows Thor's hammer is called Mew Mew

[@darklaw1384]

Mijjjjolllllllniiiıř

[@GimilitheGreat]

MEOW MEOW!

[@mairavlevy9015]

Meonyo

[@KikoOkami]

As proclaimed by Darcy

[@wikiusz7746]

mayo mayo

[@forestvalkyria1155]

In Sweden se also learn about North Mythologi. We also have the roling R's but we say "Loke" not "Loki". But your language is more like ancient nordic, witch is pretty cool if you ask me. I have hurd that icelandic people can understand swedes more than we can understand you.

[@Eclipse-mf6hc]

It’s the same with the pronunciation in Danish

[@forestvalkyria1155]

@@Eclipse-mf6hc Danish and Swedish are very similar and also Norwegian. We are like sibblings, that always had fight through the historie. I like our northern countries ❤️

[@orms67]

Her language is not more like ancient nordic in regards to the pronounciation of the gods names. Loke is just as ancient as Loki, if not more ancient. There used to be several 'accents' of old norse. East Old Norse and West Old Norse are the most famous ones. The E instead of I in Loke comes from East Old Norse which was spoken mostly in Sweden.

[@forestvalkyria1155]

@@orms67 Okej visste inte det 🙂 Vet att de pratar mer åt fornnordiska i Korsnäs i Finland, vilket låter som svenska. Antar att du är svensk.

[@3m1liy]

Workout Spirit samma med Oden och Odin

[@luke3821]

English: *Loki* Icelandic: *Lowkey*

[@serpensx]

Luke Monson I live for this comment ahahah

[@johndoef5962]

Isn't it the other way round? Or is my pronunciation wrong?

[@williamdraughon8365]

The funny thing is my sons name is Loki Merritt and my country ass uncle calls him Low Key merritt

[@coldfire10k65]

Low ka like in Spanish what is que.

[@fransplayshd1262]

Icelandic: Loki

[@cjbehr3730]

I appreciate you being willing to make this. I know some show hosts were attacked online for trying to correct this or that - but I can’t imagine anyone having an issue with you teaching people proper pronunciation of words that belong with a world they want to know more about. I have found myself playing this several times already. Thanks.

[@Armandos82]

Being talked down to has never been hotter. Odin- Odthen? Loki- Low Kay Thor- Tthorrr Friga- Freak Mjolnir- Johnathon

[@jimmy2minutes]

She is fit as fuck.

[@eliphas_vlka]

She is nordic ;)

[@PlazaGaming]

Swedish ~ Odin Loke Tor Freja Mjölnir

[@hippyjoe]

How it was actually pronounced by the Old Norse was very different from modern Icelandic. Óðinn- The "ð" is pronounced like th in the, or that, as opposed to th in thimble or thing. Loki- Same as modern English "LOW-key" Þórr- Almost identical to modern English except for an alveolar tap instead of an r. Sort of like a rolled r that only lasts a single trill. Frigg- Sort of pronounced like "Freeg", again with an alveolar tap instead of an r Mjölnir- Mee-l-NIR Also with an alveolar tap.

[@kaku_zato]

@@hippyjoe thank you, I was just about to comment this, but luckily I saw this just in time

[@SuperJumpBros]

Norse: Loki is Thor's Uncle Marvel: Yes, he is Thor's Brother

[@TaishoKenpachi]

Was Heimdall Black? 🤔😅

[@SuperJumpBros]

@@TaishoKenpachi hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@elvenmaiden7027]

Isn't Loki just a blood brother to Odin i.e. his and Thor's frenemy?

[@SuperJumpBros]

@@elvenmaiden7027 yes, but isn't he his uncle??? Oh well

[@SwordTune]

@@TaishoKenpachi Heimdall was once referred to as the whitest of all the gods.

[@yungscoobert1747]

Don’t mind me, just prepping for assassins creed

[@reggaeyute760]

Spartonix Wiitake 😂😂😂😂 me 2

[@jqa16]

Ubisoft sheep. Me who have all AC games

[@Dr-Alexander-The-Great]

Damn right, how insanely awesome does that game look

[@Mydun]

Spartonix Wiitake 😂

[@dylancunnignham]

Facts 🤣🤣

[@TheRbruin10]

As a Spanish speaker, this is so natural for me. How we pronounce our Rs is basically the same. I think I should learn some Icelandic.

[@ingvarkristjansson766]

Funny because when I studied at the university in Italy the only person who could pronounce our words correctly where the Spanish and Greek people

[@mikkveere1409]

Yeahh, if the actor gets paid millions of dollars, he should get hes pronounciation right, because people from those countries are going to watch and judge. Like myself- from estonia... and in csi series there were an Estonian lady in america and what the acress said was "dfgdggrrxhjfghdsfgd" and it was called estonian and the character name was something like Natalia Gorlova etc. FUK YOU! firstly, that is fucking russian name- russian, that have been occupying our land for centuries, killed our people from 1.5 million to 90 000 in 17h century! Need to say nomore. Fucking Natalia 😡. In comparison REAL estonian names: Triin, Eve, Maria, Maarja, Anu, Malle, Riina, Liis, Lea, Heli and last name Kask, Kaljurand, Mäe, Mets, Põld, Oja, Sepp, Kütt, Kivi aso. The fact that Estonia houses a lot and a lot of russian occupants, does NOT mean they are real estonians. It is the same if estonians migrated to Norway and hollywood would portray Lea Oja as norveign with norveign name. COMOOOON PPL!

[@hentype]

The weird soft R sound somehow is common in two unrelated languages for some reason: English and Mandarin.

[@nowgoawayanddosomethinggoo8978]

Only He who is worthy of wielding JONATHAN will rule Asgard

[@jacobwhelan45]

I’m dying 😂😭

[@kirbymai7081]

Best 😂🤣

[@cathydegraw212]

🤣🤣🤣🔨

[@jonathanalires5296]

No one will ever wield me!!!!!

[@karthik197]

@@jonathanalires5296 jonathannnn!! You are mine

[@paxeey]

Roll the R Spain: *Hold my CeRRRveza RRRubia RRRobeRRRto*

[@HappyGick]

Sip, se hizo súper fácil ya sabiendo pronunciar esa R.

[@erinlindsay_cpd]

hahahahha,

[@icebear8909]

Don’t you mean TheRRRvetha?

[@compulsivecommenter990]

A España también le sale la S islandesa😆😆

[@NicoleCorrea00]

-"Roll the R" -Spanish speaking people: He entrenado para este momento toda mi vida

[@compulsivecommenter990]

Es una erre sorda, no sonora como en español🤣

[@its_just_marvlus]

THOR-R-R-R-R-R-R-R=🏎💨💨💨💨 OR 🌫🌫🌫🚁🌪🌫🌫🌫🌫🌫

[@isisvidals9339]

En efecto

[@rafaelcuevas3209]

Dab Vitor Correr

[@compulsivecommenter990]

@Yoel Armas Macías /r̥/ /r/

[@youngLEOc]

People from Iceland should be narrating these norse mythology stories.. so beautiful to hear the language and the words said properly

[@headphones2308]

How to pronounce Loki American: Low-key Icelandic: Lohkeh, wot ere ye doin in me swomp!?

[@dylancole5595]

😂😂😂

[@joaovictorbrittobastos1421]

We Brazilians: Lóki

[@Andrianoid]

Локи, Тор и Рагнарёк - по-русски)

[@cadeturner8097]

That’s Scottish buddy but it was still funny

[@Rattys]

Little known fact, Loki also created Ikea. Many a good man has entered and never left it's halls. A more cunning trap than Daedalus' Labyrinth.

[@pewpewcat7679]

😂😂

[@Himmyjewett]

Is that a SCP reference

[@ariesleorising9421]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dragonmartijn]

Actually you can leave if you pay. They let you go away to earn more so you can come back and pay again.

[@markmandel6738]

Been there, done that, bought a soda and a hot dog (as I recall) and made my escape.

[@natasharomanoff1480]

“I’m a huge marvel fan” Me: I like this one

[@dudeadonaiski]

"Marvel Cinematic Universe" Okay this one isn't tricking us

[@joshaaron3587]

Is it Deadpool? 😊

[@yaraf.1108]

Natasha, please come back :(

[@nehla.jahangiri.9059]

I understood that reference!

[@UncleFlaynus]

Oh my god you guys have so much in common

[@Nekrist218]

She is right when she said that “the Icelandic pronunciation is the correct pronunciation", and I'll tell you why. Because Icelandic is the closest modern language (alongside, or partially with Faroese) to Old Norse, because those languages where isolated from continental influence (not like Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, etc). The ignorance in this comment section is overwhelming tbh.

[@roberics6720]

The pronounciation changes over the years. Kinda like American English is incorrect compared to British English. That is just BS. A person from Iceland (today) wouldn't understand a word the old vikings spoke.

[@Nekrist218]

@@roberics6720 that is pretty obvious you know. And I never said they speak the same language, that's why their language is ICELANDIC and not OLD NORSE...

[@roberics6720]

@@Nekrist218 And that's why no Scandinavian country can claim to have the "correct" pronounciation. She makes it sound like they must pronounce the names the way Icelanders do, to get it right, which simply isn't true

[@Nekrist218]

@@roberics6720 She is saying the closest modern way to pronounce it, you can do it or not XD

[@robbyerics2792]

@@Nekrist218 She actually said, "that's why Icelandic is the correct way to pronounce it". It is no more correct than any other Scandinavian country, since the Norse Mythology was around even before some of the vikings landed on Iceland (and stayed there).

[@xlenaqz]

Icelandic: With the strong R! Spanish and Russian: That's a soft R hahaha

[@tomermevorach8879]

Hebrew & Arabic: hold my beer

[@eros5420]

Even by Spanish standards that is a soft r.

[@tomermevorach8879]

@WotarukThe Viking have spoke Old Norse. There right enough solid evidence for this claim. And Icelandic is the closest thing to Old North that still spoken.

[@tomermevorach8879]

@Wotaruk I don't know whose language is the closest (it is not my Hebrew for sure), but I think your language and hers came from the same Viking origin, and maybe you will ‏understand Vikings texts from your native land better, and she will do better with the texts that were written by Icelandic Vikings. I know only Hebrew, English and a little bit of Scottish-Gaelic, so l don't really know who is ‏closer to the truth from you both.

[@b43xoit]

@Wotaruk So please straighten us out.

[@svaffe]

Norse mythology isn't originated from Iceland, but from Scandinavia before Iceland was even settled by the Norwegians. But vikings didn't really write stuff down like the Christians, except a few rune stones. So a few hundred years after the viking age an Icelandic writer/chief (Snorri Sturluson) started to write down sagas about the mythology and viking legends.

[@joejunior6214]

She also said *the TEXT came from iceland* so she's both wrong and right.

[@GranadaFelish]

Also many norse myths originated from what is now Germany, and many were changed by christian monks when translated to be less contradicting with their religion

[@ingridkland8823]

Fiskeben THANK YOU omg someone finally said it

[@asynir1886]

Also along with Monks from the villages they raided.

[@olejrgenstensaas2903]

Thank you

[@bw1620]

Cmon chris hemsworth is australian. We stuggle to even speak english let alone Icelandic

[@raiderius_]

LMAOOOOO

[@JRJohnson1701]

True. "No" comes out like "naou" over in AU.

[@Suprbuff.fitness]

@@JRJohnson1701 not true I am Australian we say nah or nuh or no

[@lachlanmcvey7885]

Bwahaha your a legend.

[@emmajoy5068]

Graag Gedaan his grandfather being Dutch and having scottish decent has nothing do to with rolling his r’s my dude

[@pedrohenriquecontente332]

Icelandic girl: Americans can't roll the R Literally every single Latin American around: Rold My Cerveja

[@davewantz1766]

Most Americas can roll R’s. Its not a very special skill. I’m more surprised when I run across a person that can’t.

[@wendellucasmaximilianodasi9598]

OJ McClanahan You forget to meantion the português language... nós brasileiros (incl. os portugueses embora não sejam d’Amêrica Latina) também rolamos nossos “R”-es🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@mati97]

@@davewantz1766 can they? but it's not even an american english sound :o

[@ashleymartinez9635]

Yeah. I didn't realize that rolling R's was a special skill that only Icelandic people have.

[@lyartbane2115]

What's a "Latin American" I think you meant "American". Am I a Franco American because my ancestors were French ? No.

[@gabriellaraelyn]

Nobody: Me at 2 am: *heim-dal-curr*

[@sinbeforegød]

For real LMAO

[@aronvandenbroeck6256]

🤣

[@jamesmadlangtuta3156]

It's 3am for me 😂😂😂

[@ewak4480]

Being Polish and knowing English and German is very helpful when it comes to speaking Icelandic words Yeah, I just realized

[@turzigaming]

This is highly fascinating to watch and I love learning something new. Thank you. Thor, Loki, Mjolnir and Ragnarok are my favourite pronunciations. The way you say Mjolnir and Ragnarok is extremely pleasant to hear.

[@bruno.e]

3:06 ODIN 3:24 FRIGG 3:49 LOKI 4:04 THOR 5:00 MJOLNIR 5:15 HEIMDALL 6:15 NIDAVELLIR 7:04 RAGNAROK

[@TravelCoupleNYC]

i will use this words and i be able to fake that i am from Iceland lol

[@firstnamelastname6509]

Thank you. Couldn't stand the endless babbling 😂

[@ubiquidade]

Odin sounds literally the same

[@69SalterStreet]

Blessings

[@bruno.e]

69SalterStreet I never thought people would reply to that haha. Thanks

[@danishviking8002]

Probably important to mention that Norse Mythology is a north germanic thing, and these gods were worshipped over a long periode of time, from even todays modern Germany to as far up as Finland. So, icelandic derrives from Old West Norse (dialect of ON) because that was the dialect of Old Norse spoken in the area of modern Norway and northern parts of Sweden. Todays modern north Germany, Denmark and todays modern south of Sweden did speak the Old East Norse dialect. So, what Im trying to say is that you can be pretty sure that the pronounciation has been different depending on where you were in Scandinavia at that time. Im pretty sure that in the Old East Norse dialect it was pronounced Mjólner/Mjølner, Loke, and Heimdalr. The -ur ending in words fx Heimdallur is a specific icelandic spelling and pronounciation.

[@cultosaur262]

Danish Viking -- You certainly make an insightful and valid point. I am willing to grant Ms. Hrafna the poetic license if only from her understandable national pride and heritage. It must be noted that these English pronunciations will fall most peculiar on the Icelandic (or other Scandinavian) ear and that is the basis for the humorous take inspiring the video. The texts from Iceland represent a rightfully important example as so many Norse texts were destroyed by the Christian clergy during conquests in Scandinavia and Norse communities across continental Europe -- as such they are linguistically and historically important. However, you are correct that they also derive from a branch of the Norse language family and should not be considered representative of the core as relates to how these mythological names were definitively spoken for millennia and predate the written languages of or adopted by the Norse peoples -- which are more diverse that the average American could likely imagine. It is a beautiful aspect of Indo-European languages how words are adopted, merged, and preserved from constituent languages as peoples migrated, conquered, and also integrated with one another across our known history of language and cultural geography. One can find as much influence from Old Norse in English as one can the Western Germanic language family when one looks. The Icelandic language is beautiful and rich as the natural beauty found in Iceland, but Icelandic is no more the definitive representation of Norse language pronunciation than modern British (or American) English is the definitive pronunciation representative of the Old English or Middle English languages. Similarly, you are spot-on with pointing out the differences one encounters in pronunciation in the more eastern branches of the Old Norse language tree. This in no way diminishes the humor observed when English, American, and Australian actors battle with pronouncing these iconic names from the Norse Mythos as it surely makes for a funny video!

[@laurenaissance]

@@cultosaur262 I love what you both are saying, and maybe I missed the part where you both pointed this out, but one thing I've notice in English that is different from when I speak German or Russian, is that when you pronounce loan words in English, there is a tendency to turn the word into a more English sounding word. It is not normal to pronounce croissant (for instance) by a French phonetic system, it is instead pronounce by the English one. The same with Thor, Sputnik, Mach, Smorgasbord, Curry, Pajamas etc. But in other languages you tend to pronounce loan words by the phonetic system from which they derive (i.e. McDonald's, Computer, Notebook etc.) I don't think it's because English speakers "don't know how to pronounce words" it's because English actually has a different phonetic system for loan words than other languages.

[@kheidal]

@@margretheilagadis_9753 "It's the original, correct way".. no, not really. Why not? Because as Danish Viking points out: there were two different dialects of Old Norse spoken. There is no "this is the ONLY correct way to pronounce ......, and all others are wrong." Just because Snorri happened to be an Icelandic scholar, doesn't mean THAT is how everyone pronounced it. Even in the 13th century (when Snorri wrote the Prose Edda) the language had begun to change, modernized, due to Christianity taking over and latin being taught to those of "higher class" (like Snorri). Saying "It was an Icelander who wrote it, so that's how it was spoken. Period." is just a bit... childish?

[@cultosaur262]

​@@margretheilagadis_9753 - Sorry you are mistaken to claim the mythology is original to Iceland. Yes these literary works are known to be Icelandic. The mythology predates human migration to Iceland however. Icelandic is not the root of the Norse language family, rather it is a rather isolated, more modern branch. The deities from the mythology did not originate on Iceland or have their origin from the Icelandic people or their language. This does not diminish in any degree the massive contribution of the knowledge of these myths that have been preserved via Iceland. What Danish Viking points out is that Icelandic should not be considered as representative of how the names of these deities and artifacts would be pronounced when these beliefs were widely practiced across much of Northern Europe. This does not make them wrong, it rather makes them Icelandic. One should expect variance in pronunciation as one moves across different languages in the Norse language tree, and this is central Danish Viking's observation. If one wants to explore the 'original' pronunciations, one needs to linguistically move further back in time before Icelandic, Swedish, or Danish was in existence as we know them. Likely this would take us to a time predating Old Norse itself, however it would a good starting place. I suspect we would find these mythological names have Proto-Norse linguistic origin and pronunciation that is best left to forensic linguists to discuss how these may or may not be preserved in modern languages. Ms. Hrafna in her video indicated that the texts have Icelandic origin, not the names themselves. The contrast is in comparing Scandinavian pronunciation with the Anglicized versions found in Modern English, in this case using Icelandic. The validity and humor of this contrast would be preserved even if a different pronunciation were illustrated from an alternate modern language from the Norse family. I respect your opinion, however it is not definitive as you suggest nor does it invalidate the linguistic observation made by Danish Viking.

[@kheidal]

@@cultosaur262 "The texts from Iceland represent a rightfully important example as so many Norse texts were destroyed by the Christian clergy during conquests in Scandinavia and Norse communities across continental Europe." I just wanted to pull that line out, the rest of your post was really well written indeed, but that line... I just wanted to point out something there. 1. There weren't that many Norse texts that was destroyed at all, simply because the Norsemen didn't write books. Tales of the Gods, tales of heroes and songs were all orally taught from old to young. It was the Skálds who travelled from town to town who shared all that knowledge. 2. It was actually a Christian scholar, (you might have heard of him.. Snorre Sturlason), who wrote down the stories from the mythology. From the creation of the Nine worlds, to the tales of all the Gods and Ragnarök.

[@zachgordon1425]

American racecars: Vroom Scandinavian racecars:Vjrøöm

[@lelandabernathy1596]

Koenigsegg

[@bongfuhrer]

Actually not. In Norway we got Vroom as engine sound. Or sometimes just Vrom. Depends on the length of engine sound you want to describe.

[@alondor8157]

woosh

[@vindruva9640]

Woosh

[@phreyah]

Swedish racecars: Brum

[@hyapat-xxc]

I've been studying norse mythology for a little under a year and it's really interesting! The names are closest pronounced in Icelandic due to the fact that the texts are originated from there but the belief itself was from Scandinavia and some parts of Germany (which is why it's also called Germanic mythology). Old Norse is an entirely other language from Icelandic but it's really close and amazes me on how close they are. I'm trying to learn the ancient language of Old Norse so maybe I should learn some Icelandic as well as it could help me! I think it woul dbe really cool:) great job!! Really love this:)

[@illalima6670]

As an Icelandic person I think it's so weird that they teach people that old norse is a completely different language, because it's literally like reading Icelandic 😂🙈

[@BrashSoulstorm]

Hrafna: "Im going to teach you how to say things". Also Hrafna: "I can't speak"

[@Rollothe1st]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@herman1850]

Yeah, the irony that she finds it funny how they mispronounce things and goes on to abuse English.

[@ipsyop]

@@herman1850 funny how she speaks English better than a large portion of Americans.

[@corbeaN109]

@@herman1850 The problem is that Americans don't even try to pronounce other words correctly, but create their own pronunciation for those words....

[@cosodesign8953]

iPsyop she actually doesn’t. But okay.

[@Badlynamedchannel]

Scandinavian goose: Hjonk

[@bassjunkie85]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@1888BW]

it Mr.Hjønk to you LMFAO

[@hellsingscult6929]

U dick lol

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

I read the first part and was like "hjonk?" I'm glad I was right.

[@Gooseswe]

Scandinavia isn't a country but several different countries and Goose has different names for each country. In swedish its Gås for an exampel

[@calipigeon]

Kat Dennings calling Mjolnir “meowmeow” was very accurate/believable

[@adoniscortez9428]

Hahahahaa

[@Blaze9.58]

Jonathan

[@14bqdonk]

mewtwo

[@fenixflight574]

Haha when she mentioned the hammer I yelled out MEWMEW! Because of that actress calling it that in the 1st thor LMAO.

[@gshallot]

Almost saying saiyajin.

[@christianblacksmith6265]

Lady, I could listen to u all day and deepen my Norse Mythology knowledge too :) Keep up the good work !

[@Cris-hd1wb]

I had the captions on and when you said "Americans don't roll their r's" it said "Americans don't roll their arse" 😂😂😂

[@rustknuckleirongut8107]

I watched a bunch of twerking videos (for research purposes) and it seems some can roll their arse.

[@Cris-hd1wb]

@@rustknuckleirongut8107 Does that mean I'm American? 🙊🙃

[@bevsims1982]

I'm deceased. Lol Seriously I wish we were taught to roll our "r's" in American Schools... they were too busy teaching us to square dance and teaching incorrect history.

[@Cris-hd1wb]

@@bevsims1982 I guess it's fine, as long as you don't ask any questions and you behave like that's how it should be, this is how schooling works nowadays 😒😩 I face the same issue, especially in the English and French class, where we're taught only formal and robotic phrases instead of teaching us how to communicate in a more colloquial way and talk native-like :p That's why most kids learn English by watching TV shows and such, just as I did :)

[@Gizmonips]

Scooby Dane It comes naturally to some people.

[@therealdanieldavis]

-Roll the R -Spanish speaking people: Hold my ferrocarril

[@karimee216]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rociopaoloni5080]

I'm so glad someone gave an example that isn't ridiculous.

[@mariajosemartinez5135]

Yo no noto taaanta diferencia entre la manera en que pronuncian los estadounidenses y la forma en que pronuncia ella, la verdad. A ver, no es igual del todo, pero es parecida. Tenía que oír cómo pronunciamos todo eso en España 😅😂😂

[@jimmoriarty9565]

erre con erre guitarra erre con erre barril

[@arnaldob.g.9934]

hahahahaha lmao

[@dandman9373]

they way they pronounce "Loki" is how Shrek said "Donkey"

[@bhaskarp17]

DanDLion lmao

[@tobyprecise8548]

That actually helped a lot XD

[@kxplay]

Bruh insane 😂😂😂😭😭😭😂😂

[@ronmerkus5941]

😆

[@thesulaiman09]

WTF AHAHAHAHAHHAH SO TRUE

[@ValentineMJ]

Doing this with the proper Old Norse spelling (ǫ in O.Norse became ö in modern Icelandic) alongside the Proto-Norse root word. 3:08 Óðinn (Wōdinaz) 3:25 Frigg (Friggju 3:51 Loki (?) 4:07 Þórr (Þonaraz) 5:01 Mjǫllnir (Mellunijaz) 5:17 Heimdallr (?) 6:16 Niðavellir (?)

[@Anonymous-uw4sr]

Huh.. that's cool, where did you learn that?

[@Anonymous-uw4sr]

proto norse..

[@ValentineMJ]

@@Anonymous-uw4sr I study Linguistics in my spare time. But I'm far better in Middle High German and Gothic than I am in Old Norse, or Proto-Norse.

[@Anonymous-uw4sr]

@@ValentineMJ Very cool!

[@jimmykool212]

"Very Strong R" Spanish People: "poRRRRRqueee senoRRRRa"

[@leanjesmaggot]

"Se Ñ oRRRRa*"

[@bacchusendo9032]

the hispanic in me doesn't have a problem rolling my R's, but they seem to drag the R's and O's a little more that still makes it weird.

[@CarlosVazquez75]

lol porque señora doesn't have rolling R

[@josealtairtoromercer7336]

I laughed more than I meant to, from Chile btw (South America, u know the real america)

[@trolletieren]

@@josealtairtoromercer7336 real America its all America, they are just usa.

[@Raijin24226]

Nobody: Icelandic: Othinn Filipino kids: Oten. Oteeeeeen.

[@chaddyg.1456]

Sira ulo... Hahaha

[@darklaw1384]

Wodan/Wotan. Or Donar for thor

[@PunkerTrottzEltern]

@@darklaw1384 you are of one of these "Southern germanic tribes". I see you are a man of culture aswell.

[@darklaw1384]

@@PunkerTrottzEltern I come from Germany xD. I am just a fan of North mythology

[@PunkerTrottzEltern]

@@darklaw1384 Das meinte ich mit einer der Südgermanischen Stämme. ;D

[@shreddernation1096]

Hrafna: You need to roll the R Parallel universe. R: you need to roll the human

[@lordgrim1798]

*I am 4 parallel worlds ahead of you*

[@prodbyshari]

In soviet russia, r rolls you

[@alexkhasho3133]

Parallel universe Joint: rolls humans

[@thorndust5329]

Dude, her name is an example of why not many people learn Icelandic. Hr is the equivalent of whispering your trilled r, and the F in Hrafna is actually a P.

[@prachetasnayse9709]

You need more likes.

[@golvic1436]

Fun fact: old Norse and old English are very similar in the sounds used. This is because there was a lot of Norse colonization back in the 800’s and 900’s all the way up to 1066. Once you hit that year for some reason there is a ton of French that gets injected into English and pronunciation of words starts to change very rapidly. By the late 1400’s English pronunciation becomes close enough to modern English that you can start to understand it as a native English speaker.

[@JZarii]

She: Rolled Rs Me a Spanish speaker: IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE!

[@qqn4531]

Me a french: *oh no... my worst nightmare*

[@gandalfthepalepink1479]

Me, an Afrikaans South African: RRRrrRRrRRrRRRRRRRRrRrr

[@comylare6879]

Me, a Māori: RRrrRRrRRrrrRRrRRrrR

[@expclan6484]

same I am Mexican and I can roll my rs

[@alexsan3914]

Spanish goes BRRRR, we can speak almost every language xD

[@izzya7827]

You should pronounce more Norse mythology words/names such as Yggdrasil, fimbulwinter, Baldr, ratatoskr and Loki’s children. Would be awesome to hear!

[@WHNorthcote]

Or Skuld and Verdandi that lives under the tree. Them from the Norns.

[@MoreXstendoP]

people just finishing god of war be like

[@fookmeh9274]

Is watching Vikings count as "learning process" ?

[@rahuldhargalkar]

Also those two goats of Thor, they have pretty cool names! (Just an amateur Norse mythology enthusiast from India)

[@MsTropicandy]

Indeed. I'd love some confirmation on Nidhogg.

[@shystenxx371]

"then we have the mischievous Lowkey" My last two braincells: wat

[@robinrehlinghaus1944]

Interesting. If I may add - we also have some older names for these Deities here in Germany, like Odin is Wotan, Thor is Donar, Frigg is Frija (not to be confused with Freya, though I guess historically they were sometimes conflated, too). Cool.

[@gavinrolls1054]

Freya would just be Frau in German lol

[@je-freenorman7787]

They are all associated with Planets

[@LumpySnorlax]

English: Thor Icelandic: Thor, but with a little extra spice.

[@ulquiorra23ful]

No

[@snape539]

Yes

[@QPint]

Hollywood: put some spice on that

[@Ricky911_]

Þór

[@mattar8432]

TORRRR

[@jaydinetso]

This is, the "Leviosa" leviOsAA" equivalent haha I get the point of it a fan of all dialects

[@twiztid69666]

This is another snowflake icetard trying to bully brainwash.

[@canalsinceramentenos]

Yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

[@ronanoloingsigh5251]

You should dress up as a viking and raid the coasts of ireland for 100k sub special👍👍

[@elgranlugus7267]

The a wild Brian Boramha appears out of nowhere

[@erinrobertshaw2972]

Oh

[@roses2122]

Ní hea.

[@ronanoloingsigh5251]

@@roses2122 Cén fáth?

[@Fankas2000]

She probably is like 1/4 Irish anyway.

[@trentglasgow7114]

Please, insult us more, it's absolutely hilarious and I love it. And as someone who gets especially bent when saying things incorrectly, especially things of religious connotation and such, this was great for correcting the butchering that had just been, how I thought it was said

[@Thor-ej2us]

Norse mythology is a million times betters than marvel’s depiction

[@deletevil]

Skyrim for life !!!

[@the0black0bullet]

💗💚

[@rethla]

Its like a couple of weird poems and thats all. Vikings are like pirates, made up.

[@datgreen2506]

rethla did... did you just say vikings are made up?

[@SuperGreenough]

rethla Vikings are not made up you dumbass. Lots of embellishments have been added to the stories but they existed. Also exactly the same thing with pirates.

[@AnnRose142]

What about Yggdrasil, Bifröst, Niflheim, Helheim, and the other places?

[@ragnar0721]

Ah..a fellow god of war fan

[@CrysisHD]

A man of quality, god of war is amazing

[@Robert_Douglass]

Helheim? Nah, Musspelheim.

[@kosmic100]

BOY!

[@AnnRose142]

Sorry for disappointing you but I don't know God of War. 😅

[@maxoliverreynolds4728]

Actually, Norse mythology comes from Norway, Sweden and Danmark (The vikings). But they went to Iceland and occupied the area. The language is very close to what they spoke!

[@Torillmt]

Max Reynolds Correct! Thanks 👏🏻

[@maxoliverreynolds4728]

@@Torillmt No problem!

[@maxoliverreynolds4728]

@@RomanImperialist Yeah

[@arthurjansen6257]

Max Reynolds yeah the myth of Thor actuly comes from torshov in Oslo. Where i live sorry for bad english

[@vetu104]

She was saying that Edda was written in Iceland. Of course the folklore itself is older than that. Also, to my understanding Icelandic is the closest language to what Old Norse was, which is the root for all scandinavian languages. It was isolated from foreign influences for a long time. That would make Icelandic the most correct pronounciation for the gods imo. E: Just noticed that I wrote almost the same thing as you did lol

[@vincentfinn292]

Great video! Just little precision: in Old Norse, the language the Vikings spoke, the double l wasn't pronounced like "tl" yet, but like "l'l" (a bit like in the english pronunciation of the word Allah)

[@anastasiaarvanitidou4179]

The satisfaction you get when you realise that icelandic letter ð looks almost identical to the greek letter δ and you can pronounce it with out a problem. I was amazed the first time i saw it

[@etheridescence]

Whoa great catch!

[@358sotos]

It also feels like the icelandic accent in English is quite similar to the greek one. But when you here a Greek or an Icelander speaking their own languages, their accents are in no way similar. :-P

[@ynntari2775]

ð is like english TH as in "THE" Is δ like it? I thought δ was like romance-language's d

[@358sotos]

@@ynntari2775 Yes, δ is like "th" in "the". The greek equivalent to the romance "d" is "ντ" (nt), it's composed by two letters.

[@jemappellemerci]

Sotiris Hedgefog in Ancient Greek it was usually pronounced as “d” though. I don’t know much about modern day Greek, except for that translations of letters have changed

[@bunnyofdeath8465]

I mean, to be fair, in most languages, names change to fit the accent that is being spoken. It’s not purely an American thing

[@potassiumcyanide3857]

America destroy every it touch, end of the story

[@highrpm85]

yes, but names stays the same

[@SarahWheeleeTravels]

Yeah like Sarah can be pronounced 12 different ways and 12 different country

[@peytonyork6187]

Potassium Cyanide Might wanna work on that spelling

[@BigHossHackworth]

@@potassiumcyanide3857 Did we destroy your English grammar ?

[@blackthorn7071]

Interviewer: What is the name of Thor's hammer? Paul Rudd: Jonathan 😂😂😂😂😂

[@batbite_]

1. Old Norse - the language the eddas are written in is quite similar but still different from Icelandic and therefore pronounced differently. 2. Old and middle English is also quite similar to old Norse, they called Odin Woden and likely had different variations of the myths about him than the eddas. To addres the thumbnail: When the English started using the Latin alphabet instead of runes they struggled with how to write ð and first wrote it like y (why some old pubs are named "ye red duck" etc.) But only later used th to write the ð sound so we now write the and not ye.

[@fitek3323]

It's the same with Magneto trying to speak Polish 😂

[@rahuldhargalkar]

Make a video on that 😁 we'd like to chuckle on that too

[@paulas.535]

Or the people in first class speaking german, its awful

[@RayleighCriterion]

Yes, that was a bit butchered. I'll give him an A for effort.

[@infamousleviathan9693]

Legend has it it´s "Magnieto" xD

[@girlnotthis9738]

Paula Schütz i don't think fassbender's german was bad, regarding the fact he's half german and used to speak it during his teenage years

[@nazarbodan]

3:15 Odin 3:25 Frigga 3:51 Loki 4:03 Thor 5:01 Mjolnir 5:18 Heimdall 5:59 Nidavellir 4:34 funny attempts to pronounce "mjolnir"

[@mistermaster____]

Jonathan?

[@elizaldoo]

@@mistermaster____ that was the best! Hahaha.

[@melocatic]

American wind: whoosh Icelandic wind: áwjöósh

[@ninjakid2O]

dahlia Spanish wind: el whoosh

[@atoro4335]

Japanese: awushu

[@laurag7853]

ninjakid2O actually for wind in spain we discribe it more as fiuuuu🤣🤣

[@Anvilshock]

German: Der Wusch Polish: Łyszczczsczzshzszk

[@tehMorion]

Internet: r/woooosh

[@thegrimcritic5494]

It’s fun to be Hispanic; you’re used to rolling the pronunciations or phonetics of certain letters and words in other languages.

[@MaggieGraceWebb]

"Americans don't roll their rr's" Me, a Texan that took two years of really awful Spanish classes: hold my guitarrón

[@araelsongheart6918]

@Maggie Grace Webb, multilinguist here. I don’t roll my r’s when I’m speaking languages that don’t require any r-rolling. Now, if I’m speaking Spanish, Scandinavian, certain dialects of Italian, or other languages that have words where you roll the r’s, then I will do so. Typically, I will also adopt the accent of the region that the language or dialect is from. For English, it’s a British accent (either a posh London accent, like some of the queens, or a Wales accent). For American, I’ll adopt a either a mild East Coast US accent (probably accurately described as a Long Island/South Pennsylvania/Boston combination) or a very mild New Orleans accent. Hispanic accents are different, and most are beautiful. For them I’ll adopt a Puerto Rican accent, a Dominican Republic accent, or a Mexican accent. Mexico is full of rich history with Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, and Toltec (I also believe there was a 5th civilization) ancient cultures mixed with Spanish culture. I have a deep regard for their combined history and their accents are very distinct. Might I ask what made your learning experience so horrible?

[@TheRecklessmonk]

@@araelsongheart6918 Teotihuacan :)

[@MaggieGraceWebb]

@@araelsongheart6918 That's neat! I haven't really had the opportunity to fully learn other languages like that. However, being in choir through all of high school and planning to pursue a career as a choir teacher, I've been exposed to quite a few languages. I'd say my best languages to sing/pronounce are French and Italian, because my voice has a brighter tone, while German and the like are more difficult due to their darker, deeper intonations. My two years of Spanish class were pretty bad just because they were high school classes, and high school language classes have a tendency to have students that don't care at all about the class. They're just there to pass the class and leave (because in my state, you are required to take 2 years of foreign language classes in order to graduaute. They also offered French, German, and American Sign Language, but I chose to take Spanish because it made the most sense for communication in my region). Also, my teachers were not very good. I got 100s in those classes, but that's only because the majority of our grade came from easy worksheets that didn't teach us anything. I didn't retain much from those classes haha.

[@araelsongheart6918]

@TheRecklessmonk, thanks!

[@rosee9252]

Ya she's talking about English not Spanish

[@valabm606]

0:11 Hrefna: My name is Hrefna Subtitles: my name is Buckner Edit: How in the flippedi flop did I get so many likes

[@Cynthia-zi2hd]

Who the hell is buckner

[@manusilva3075]

from brazilian ears, her name sounds literally like "rapna", with a rolled r

[@aswd90]

@@manusilva3075 I can confirm.

[@drei_cee]

@@Cynthia-zi2hd I understood that reference.

[@sadiomane7720]

@@manusilva3075 hrapna in german ears

[@kevinhansson2177]

as a fellow swedish person, i can agree with it being fun when americans try to pronounce scandinavian words

[@theblacktemplars2483]

Kevin Hansson förvirrande hur ingen britt kan rulla R eller säga. Å Ä Ö. Oavset hur länge du försöker lära dem

[@kevinhansson2177]

@@theblacktemplars2483 de fan sant, men erkänn det är fan riktigt komiskt XD

[@Zatari136]

Such as smörgåsbord, amiright? ”SmOrguSbOorRd”

[@TheWasteAccount]

I find it funny when scandinavians try to speak english and proceed to butcher the language

[@linuswahlander7536]

@@TheWasteAccount but Scandinavians are amazing at English compared to other countries

[@sceleton1453]

I expected them to be wildly different, but in the end I'd say the difference is little, I do understand the frustration for a native speaker, but for me it's not a big deal... By the way, I LOVE your name "Hrafna" It just sounds so cool...

[@rodrigoleija4307]

Her: *explains* Americans: that's cool, can't wait to never apply this.

[@slytherine373]

@@dfoguilly1996 Still ignorant i see

[@pottingsoil]

No one wants to be hated, so there's no reason to apply any of this information.

[@sweetrolldealer]

@@slytherine373 nothing wrong with being ignorant on not knowing how to pronounce something in a different language.

[@hazzsin3579]

​@@slytherine373 Is she ignorant since she is mispronouncing English words? Its funny how people claim its ignorant to mispronounce words from other languages when people will mispronounce english so much its common-place. And I say that as someone multilingual who constantly has to deal with idiots from both sides of the language thinking they are better than the other.

[@slytherine373]

@@hazzsin3579 The one who commented on this channel clearly watch the video. If you watch the video and still being ignorant, you are arrogant.