Viking language returns to York

[@Buffalo45-70]

Dr. Jackson Crawford is the most knowledgeable and fluent in old Norse in the world contact him he's on KZbin also.

[@collectorduck9061]

Yeah don't go over the pond to scandinavia. Get an american in...

[@thedonmakaveli7546]

@@collectorduck9061 PMSL 😂 😂😂😂😂

[@vergil8833]

@@collectorduck9061 He did study it in Norway though

[@jeffreyoliver4370]

Nicely done! The words are clear and can be distinguished in their recitation, the long vowels are distinct from the short, and the rhythm is good. Too many readings on KZbin lack these features, all of which are important to Old Norse, both as concerns authenticity and accuracy.

[@FJMLAM]

Brilliant to hear this language. So good that people study it and can speak it

[@LastBrigadier]

The Norse's pronunciation that was spoken in Jorvik probably was a hybrid between Anglo-Saxon and Norse, it seems here that only a norwegian pronunciation is used.

[@jameskirton3168]

Yea very poor attempt sounded at best slightly Icelandic

Great job! I'm so glad I was a student of Mathew Townend at the Centre for Medieval Studies at York! Miss the Manor so much!

[@stefanluvik2361]

the name of the poem is höfuðlausn, which translates head release.because Egill had to come up with a ass kissing poem to save his life. basically saving his head from being chopped of. Egill used to put his foot in his mouth a lot.

[@unicornstuffing4831]

"Egill used to put his foot in his mouth alot" Yep, sounds like our Egill

[@alexbowman7582]

In Scotland we say ut for out huis for house, haim for home, och aye den nu for and yes the now, brun ko for brown cow, nae for no, mer for more, braw for good, all nordic

[@collectorduck9061]

Don't you also say "Bairn" (barn) for children? Lots of interesting nordic influence in scotland.

[@alexbowman7582]

Interestingly we say polis for police same as Sweden.

[@Lunatic108]

In Norways Barn/Barnet/Barna is also "A Child/The Child/Children" but you could also use Unge/Ungen/Unger

[@Bastillian]

Yes, some of geographic Scotland, (aka North Britain) is populated by descendants of Norse, but also, the Strathclyde Welsh, and Anglo-Saxons.

[@samdevries6280]

Wow, so you can see the link of words between the languages during they ages. Nice to know!!!

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

I wish more people payed attention to old welsh or common Brythonic, the oldest known language of the British isles

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

The Danes are back in town!

[@lil_miss_sunshine007]

Absolutely awesome ❤

[@gearhead1234]

Very nice! Perhaps old Norse specialist, Dr. Jackson Crawford could assist you in your project. Please look him up, I'm sure he'd be glad to help. Cheers! 🍻

[@reynsii]

i can read old norse cause i am icelandic but like old norse sounds like broken down icelandic like someones having a stroke while talking icelandic lmao

[@Eryan724]

2:33 i especially like her energy and pronounciation. but over all yea ... the humans speak it better than the robot xDD

[@NYorksElcapitan]

Great video

[@mrminer071166]

One of the basic rules of Norse Phonology is to speak as if your face were frozen, or you were already dead and speaking from a frozen hell.

[@Nazo_moon]

You know what, I hear the Yorkshire accent

[@kylej741]

Doesn’t sound like a potato in your throat. I like!

[@jameskirton3168]

It never left, we've still got 51% viking DNA and 1.5K words i Yorkshire

[@brythonicman3267]

Did they pronounce 'th' the same as we do today in English? If so where did it come from as no other language I know of uses it. Thanks

[@underaveragecuber7437]

Old Norse did have the 'th' sounds of modern English. Notice that there are two distinct such sounds: voiced (as in 'there', 'the', 'bathe') and unvoiced (as in 'thorn', 'with', 'bath'). Though it has these sounds, Old Norse doesn't write them as 'th', but has letters specifically to represent them. The unvoiced sound is written 'Þ, þ' and the voiced 'Ð, ð'. You can see this in the Old Norse words 'þat' (meaning 'that') and 'með' (meaning 'with'). In fact, Old English also used these letters. See Old English 'bēðaþ', which is the imperative of modern English 'bathe'. English only really stopped using þ and ð when the printing press came around. There was little purpose in using a letter which wasn't included in foreign presses, so it slowly got replaced (often by 'y', creating 'ye olde'). As for how they came around, Þ comes from the runic letter 'ᚦ' (Anglo-Saxon name: 'Ðorn' or 'Þorn', Old Norse name: 'Þurs'). But this is by no means the origin of the sound. Other Germanic languages like Gothic and Old High German also had the sound. Of course, because they had their own writing systems, they didn't use þ or ð to represent these sounds, though. Gothic had its own letter for it: 𐌸 (called 'thyth'). Gothic had these sounds all the way until it went extinct. In Old High German, it was originally written with digraphs like 'th' and 'dh', but were then eventually replaced by stopped 't' and 'd'. This can be seen in, for instance: Middle English: 'Thorp' vs. Old English: 'Þorp' vs. Old Norse: 'Þorp' vs. modern German: 'Dorf' Modern English: 'Bath' vs. Old English: 'Bæþ' vs. Old Norse: 'Bað' vs. modern German: 'Bad' Modern English: 'Seethe' vs. Old English: 'Sēoþan' vs. Old Norse: 'Sjóða' vs. modern German: 'Sieden' Middle English: 'Thou' vs. Old English: 'Þū' vs. Old Norse: 'Þú' vs. modern German: 'Du'

[@brythonicman3267]

@@underaveragecuber7437 Thank you for this, very informative. Edit: I was also told by a Norwegian that the Yorkshire way of pronouncing" to the" as "'t" i.e I'm off 't pub" was also used by old people in rural regions of Norway, although this was 30 years ago.

[@jameskirton3168]

Yes and th in then too, still in Icelandic, Greek and Arabic these sounds can be found this sound disappeared from most germanic languages on the continent du is thou. German often using T, nordics with D, and brits F ha

[@brythonicman3267]

I thought du was you (informal) and sie was thee (formal) @@jameskirton3168

[@freakyflow]

My name is Corbeau which was Corbett Then Corbet Which was apart of the 1066 King william attack But the name lays deeper into Normandy And then Paris attacks The shield is of a raven under Norse folk lore The Raven as death Landing on the sholder of a commander while on the batttlefield To most this would mean death is on you However the meaning that was took was Death was on his side

[@sveinntraustason5196]

The pronunciation needs some work I think! ;)

[@collectorduck9061]

I would agree.

[@DesertPunk00]

They seem to be using Icelandic pronunciation, rather then the proper old Norse pronunciation

[@colinp2238]

Of course you have a recording of old Norse people speaking?

[@vergil8833]

@@colinp2238 We know how they sounded through linguistic history.

[@colinp2238]

@@vergil8833 We assume that we know, it's a different thing altogether.

[@jorvikdevegt66]

I just HAVE to visit. My name demands it. (Yes its my actual name. Its fate)

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

jorvik people remember there norse ancestors, it seems.

[@violenceislife1987]

Jackson Crawford

[@christianfernandezcarrillo]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@yarimann_1581]

They are trying to speak old Norse with a southern English accent! Look to the Scottish and Geordie dialect for pronunciation of old Norse. Part of the original dialect still exists but you need to go to the more remote villages to hear it. Even the American Professor who is an expert on Vikings doesn’t get the pronunciation quite right.

[@swedishmetalbear]

Agreed there are mistakes, particularily in the vowels (In particular the U and Ó which need to be rounded more). And the rhotic R is not a Norse feature. (They are struggling with the rolling R). Otherwise good job! I have heard worse!

[@LastBrigadier]

Bro spare us. as if the Norse all spoke with a single accent lmao. there was already a West and East divide by the time Hoefudlausn hit the shores of England, that they are talking about bringing back Norse into Jorvik. Jorvik Norse wasn't Norwegian or even West Norse and probably was pronounced more or less with an Anglo-Saxon pronunciation.

[@yksikaksikolmen]

Think is was more fluid. Grettings from Sweden

[@yarimann_1581]

Gan hyeum - NorthEastern dialect for go home

[@jh2349]

People seem to rush through the R's. But at least they're using đ. Tired of hearing the "d" sound.

[@jameskirton3168]

Get a scots for the trilll

[@zairelramos464]

heil ek em zairel ok sem þú megsjár ek mæli Dǫnsk tungokr ek réttr viljtilr segðhir (btw i used google hihi)

[@stefanluvik2361]

i appreciate the effort but , this sounds nothing like it should.

[@iceomistar4302]

I prefer Old English to be honest

[@faramund9865]

Funny how it's the blue eyes that can actually pronounce it.

[@colinp2238]

Frank Sinatra?

[@zebrangem]

IT'S MJÖD NOT MJEAUTH

[@Adrianbonjour]

This sounds like nonsense compared to Latin.

[@ServantOfOdin]

þú hléðr sínn staðlauslikr; ekki kenna sá málr, þó hlæ at frá.

[@SKEPGFX]

Ásragin Kyron You toasted him and he doesn’t even know it?!

[@duwang8499]

Goddamn Latin elitist thinking that every language compared to their "oh so holly Latin" is somehow inferior.