OLD NORSE & ICELANDIC

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  • @gaaichia2238
    @gaaichia2238 Год назад +269

    The Icelandic alphabet is ancient and beautiful.

    • @harakovic
      @harakovic Год назад +19

      All beautiful untill number 6

    • @AllanLimosin
      @AllanLimosin Год назад +5

      @@harakovic 😏

    • @esc_uella
      @esc_uella Год назад +9

      @@harakovic sweden have it too, 6 is sex

    • @EminencePhront
      @EminencePhront Год назад +18

      @@harakovic Hey, sex can be beautiful too if your partner is hot.

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Год назад +4

      Yes, it's 200 years old being from the early 1800's, introduced by the Danish linguist Rasmus Rask (1787-1832). Not many alphabets are older than that.

  • @jakob1095
    @jakob1095 Год назад +244

    Wow it's incredible how little changes Icelandic made through centuries!

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Год назад +10

      Well, the "Old Norse" spoken is not some general Old Norse per se but Old Icelandic with a strong Modern Icelandic AND foreign accent (I don't know the origin of the one speaking the reconstructed "Old Norse", Eastern Europe somewhere?). For example, to me "öllu illu" (1:20) sounds like Old Norse "ylly illy" (not far off from Modern Icelandic disregarding the "ll"), which is way wrong.

    • @MannyBrum
      @MannyBrum 6 месяцев назад +6

      This is because Old Icelandic is the dialect of Old Norse that most of the surviving records were written in, as well as the most important ones, plus it takes less liberties with the language than other dialects so it is typically the dialect that is taught. Old Icelandic is to Old Norse what the West Saxon dialect is to Old English.

    • @birgirdagurbjarkason3085
      @birgirdagurbjarkason3085 4 месяца назад

      @@cognomen9142gaur þegiðu veist ekkert hvað þú ert að tala um

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 4 месяца назад

      @@birgirdagurbjarkason3085 Can you point out exactly what is wrong in my statements?

  • @moajonsson7726
    @moajonsson7726 Год назад +105

    As a Swede I understood the old Norse better than the Icelandic😂

    • @LSDANNY7x
      @LSDANNY7x 11 месяцев назад +1

      Thank u for commenting this

    • @frannyboo
      @frannyboo 11 месяцев назад +3

      Omg yes! Same 😂

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 4 месяца назад +2

      That's because Old Norse (even if this is Old Icelandic rather than Old Swedish) and Swedish are closer related than Icelandic and Swedish.

    • @vardr_runanna_8
      @vardr_runanna_8 Месяц назад

      Som svensk också håller jag med. Men jag talar också fornnordiska.

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia Год назад +48

    Even the spoken modern language sounds ancient to my ears.

  • @leonardoschiavelli6478
    @leonardoschiavelli6478 Год назад +137

    Icelandic is just a slightly evolved version of Old Norse (it's almost the same language, to be honest) 😱

    • @alanguages
      @alanguages Год назад +39

      Just speak Icelandic with a Norwegian accent. = Old Norse 😁

    • @Lascombe
      @Lascombe 11 месяцев назад +1

      Vamo arriba el bolso

    • @birgirdagurbjarkason3085
      @birgirdagurbjarkason3085 4 месяца назад

      Ik man it’s awesome I could literally go back in time and speak to my ancestors

    • @vardr_runanna_8
      @vardr_runanna_8 Месяц назад

      ​@@alanguages, there are some slight differences between Icelandic and Old Norse. But that is a good one. 😅

  • @cheesewiss6353
    @cheesewiss6353 Год назад +43

    Ég hef beðið eftir því að þú gerir þetta myndband í nokkurn tíma núna! Þakka þér fyrir ❤🇮🇸

    • @AlmaRakelK.
      @AlmaRakelK. Год назад +2

      Hæ þarna (og ég er frá Íslandi)

    • @dan74695
      @dan74695 11 месяцев назад +2

      Eg heve og bidat på at ho skulde gjera denna videoen lenge.

  • @bernhardwall6876
    @bernhardwall6876 Год назад +20

    I've been watching Laufey's RUclips videos, where she sings very softly and beautifully at her home. She is originally from Iceland, and she recently posted a video of herself singing an Icelandic song she learned from her mother. That's the only one I've heard so far.

  • @alejandromolina7270
    @alejandromolina7270 Год назад +21

    I heard that Icelandic people can read the old Sagas with little trouble. I can see why.

    • @birgirdagurbjarkason3085
      @birgirdagurbjarkason3085 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeah because it’s just almost the same like the words are the same, so it’s old Norse and Icelandic are almost just the same language

  • @The_G.O.A.T__
    @The_G.O.A.T__ Год назад +13

    I was looking for this comparison. Thanks for uploading ❤️

  • @irinaivanovna6380
    @irinaivanovna6380 Год назад +11

    Those northern languages usually have a lot of fricative sounds such as f, th, dh, kh, gh also sh sounds are pretty common that also includes German. I think it’s a pretty interesting process. I’m pretty sure the reason why stop sounds in ancient languages( any ancient proto languages) evolved into fricative sounds(like p to f, t to th and etc) is the process called “Lenition”. That can sound kinda harsh but still fricative sounds are usually rare compared to stop sounds among languages of the world. So that makes those languages sound unique. You can recognise that this is one of the northern languages just by its sound.

    • @0x00a
      @0x00a 10 месяцев назад

      Just like even modern day English. It sounds a lot like Icelandic mixed with Dutch

  • @sunduncan1151
    @sunduncan1151 Год назад +13

    Evolution of Icelandic
    Old Norse > Old West Norse > Old Icelandic > Modern Icelandic

    • @jarekdupa687
      @jarekdupa687 Год назад +13

      Proto-Indo-European > Germanic > Northwest Germanic > North Germanic > Proto-Norse > Old West Norse > Old Icelandic > Modern Icelandic

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Год назад +2

      Well, Old Icelandic was a dialect of Old West Norse which was a dialect of Old Norse. They were spoken at the same time except for the early Viking age when Iceland wasn't even settled.

  • @karolkowalski3424
    @karolkowalski3424 Год назад +7

    I'm leaving a big heart here ❤️

  • @user-ej3df4gw1s
    @user-ej3df4gw1s Год назад +16

    hello, how do you like the idea to make a comparison of modern Russian and old Russian?

  • @Hyperion-5744
    @Hyperion-5744 Год назад +3

    Good video andy. I plan visiting iceland one day.

  • @QUS
    @QUS Год назад +16

    Zamn its very similar

  • @redflame21
    @redflame21 Год назад +9

    Can you do a video on the Shetland and Orkney Norn language please?

  • @Demirorda
    @Demirorda Год назад +6

    Good job

  • @HenryVandenburgh
    @HenryVandenburgh Год назад +2

    Amazing.

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Год назад +5

    Very beautiful.

  • @cesargomez376
    @cesargomez376 Год назад +13

    Andy God bless you. I think the Icelandic has not evolved at all. It is the oldest language of the Germanic family. Awesome.

    • @PaulLovesVarvara
      @PaulLovesVarvara Год назад +1

      The oldest Germanic language is Gothic.

    • @kamrankhan-lj1ng
      @kamrankhan-lj1ng Год назад +6

      May be not the oldest Germanic. But the most archaic sounding. Might have changed very little in the last 1500 years!!!

    • @aitokoojii1462
      @aitokoojii1462 Год назад +6

      @@PaulLovesVarvara He meant extant. Gothic is not spoken anymore.

    • @ssllp6021
      @ssllp6021 Год назад +1

      @@aitokoojii1462 Gothic is the oldest attested Germanic language. It we are only including extant Germanic languages, the oldest attested Germanic language is old Frankish, the ancestor of Dutch, Luxembourgish and some western German dialiects.
      Icelandic may be the most conservative Germanic language, but under no circumstances is it the oldest.

    • @aitokoojii1462
      @aitokoojii1462 Год назад +4

      @@ssllp6021 I think that's what he meant, the most conservative.

  • @alandrosstettina1843
    @alandrosstettina1843 Год назад +7

    Icelandic is amazing!!

  • @wolfheartdarnell324
    @wolfheartdarnell324 Год назад +8

    The most underrated part of the videos is the little pictures of the man and woman in the associated culture that always go with. Makes it feel less intimidating given the subject matter by giving it a "for kids" skin.

  • @LelandLittleDog-ou4hf
    @LelandLittleDog-ou4hf Год назад +3

    I'm lakota from south dakota, USA. The book " the viking and the red man" by reider t. sherwin is about words from some extinct norse languages that are in indigenous languages along the st. lawrence seaway. Check it out.

  • @Lampchuanungang
    @Lampchuanungang Год назад +1

    Andy loves nordic langs the style he uses to spell made things pratical, truist and simple, real.🤗🤗🤗🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

  • @MaggotKingLife
    @MaggotKingLife 11 месяцев назад

    There needs to be a video of the Sognamal dialect of Norway. Maybe even the Sami language as well 👍😎

  • @Hamzachebbi137
    @Hamzachebbi137 Год назад +3

    Nice video 😍💪😍

  • @CinCee-
    @CinCee- Год назад +20

    Old Norse sounds alot like Old English

    • @LearnRunes
      @LearnRunes Год назад +15

      They're closely related languages.

    • @neyinnerse5614
      @neyinnerse5614 Год назад +12

      It was mutually intelligible with Old English

    • @CinCee-
      @CinCee- Год назад

      @@neyinnerse5614 Really? I never knew that

    • @voodoolilium
      @voodoolilium Год назад +10

      @@CinCee- there are actually Old Norse loanwords in modern English, like "they"! There's a big list of loans or possible loans on wikipedia. There was a lot of language contact during the Danelaw.

    • @kamrankhan-lj1ng
      @kamrankhan-lj1ng Год назад +1

      Icelandic is also very close to Anglo Saxon language!!!

  • @yifuyang6188
    @yifuyang6188 4 дня назад

    It appears the only thing that has changed notably is word order, whereas words and all the inflections remain intact.

  • @GodstoneHawk
    @GodstoneHawk Год назад +1

    Being Icelandic, I'm kinda proud of this.
    Vel gert íslenska þjóð!

  • @Anonymous-py1sf
    @Anonymous-py1sf Год назад

    Wow, so similar

  • @ansuzsociety
    @ansuzsociety Год назад

    🙏

  • @calummunn
    @calummunn 10 месяцев назад

    Are you able to translate English to icelandic for an important tattoo to my heart? Any help would be amazing. Love from scotland

  • @rock078901
    @rock078901 Год назад +1

    How similar!

  • @user-iu4se2ps7d
    @user-iu4se2ps7d Год назад +5

    Would love to visit Iceland one day

    • @cheesewiss6353
      @cheesewiss6353 Год назад +1

      þú ættir alveg að 👍

    • @rla927
      @rla927 6 месяцев назад

      Iceland is a fantastic place to visit

  • @georgosdidymus2023
    @georgosdidymus2023 4 дня назад

    The more I hear Old Norse, the more I become convinced that the Vocabulary and Syntax of the English language is very similar to it. I think the language of the Anglo-Saxons got influenced a great deal by Old Norse, after the Viking Invasion of England.

  • @Pidalin
    @Pidalin Год назад +2

    Icelandic sounds like when I click on some person in Northland strategy games 😀

  • @brittibeeper
    @brittibeeper Год назад +2

    Old Norse and Faroese?

  • @QUS
    @QUS Год назад +3

    Less goo

  • @TheEmperorsChampion964
    @TheEmperorsChampion964 7 месяцев назад +1

    Icelandic really hasn't changed much from old Norse

  • @Lascombe
    @Lascombe 11 месяцев назад

    Sounds absurdly similar

  • @SKITNICA95
    @SKITNICA95 7 месяцев назад

    Basically same language. Differences could be on dialectal basis.

  • @lhozo9007
    @lhozo9007 Год назад

    0:15 let's goooooooooo

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 11 месяцев назад

    😊🎉

  • @dalubwikaan161
    @dalubwikaan161 Год назад +1

    OM gosh! They are too similar. It is like the other one is just a dialect 😲

  • @jacob_and_william
    @jacob_and_william Год назад +1

    Definitely not identical but pretty dang close

  • @user-zp1qk3rx2t
    @user-zp1qk3rx2t 11 месяцев назад

    Just one thing last "r" was pronounces as "Z"
    Heldr = Heldz

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 4 месяца назад +1

      No, it was a palatal r in Old Norse, but by the time of the classical Old Icelandic period it had become an ordinary r.

  • @norielgames4765
    @norielgames4765 7 месяцев назад +1

    It's the same language

  • @NickJoyhill
    @NickJoyhill 3 месяца назад

    Dang, I speak Dutch (and German) and I didn't realize I could understand Old Norse so well. I generally don't really understand Icelandic.

  • @wolf_gus_green
    @wolf_gus_green Год назад +3

    0:15 🤨📸

  • @irinaivanovna6380
    @irinaivanovna6380 Год назад +3

    Imagine a language sounds exactly the same way it was 2000 years ago

    • @Pyovali
      @Pyovali Год назад +1

      Sounds like Finnish, which has changed very little

    • @AthanasiosJapan
      @AthanasiosJapan Год назад +3

      Greek hasn't changed a lot the last 2000 years.

    • @ozejjj
      @ozejjj Год назад +3

      ​​@@AthanasiosJapan also Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Aramaic are not changed to much

    • @eladbenm
      @eladbenm Год назад +1

      Meanwhile English: y’all have more than 30% of your old language in the current one???😱😱

    • @irinaivanovna6380
      @irinaivanovna6380 Год назад +2

      @@eladbenm English in this 2000 years changed like 1080•

  • @anthony_depaz
    @anthony_depaz 2 месяца назад

    Imagine being a British person visiting New York and everyone was speaking 17th century Old English... I imagine this is what Norwegians feel when they hear Icelandic.

  • @Hss2018player
    @Hss2018player Год назад +1

    0:16 AYO

  • @soheiich2597
    @soheiich2597 5 месяцев назад

    Ich kann erstaunlich viel verstehen.

  • @iogamesmaster4845
    @iogamesmaster4845 Год назад +1

    0:16 be like

  • @TheMyAss41
    @TheMyAss41 9 месяцев назад

    0:16 😳

  • @magnus00125
    @magnus00125 18 дней назад

    Why is there no Thou/Du in old norse. It says: es ert(es ist/it is(art))
    I do not understand. How can father be neuter, we know Vater is masculine.

  • @HCRAYERT.
    @HCRAYERT. 21 день назад

    The Old Norse looks closer to English than Icelandic.

  • @SantaFe19484
    @SantaFe19484 10 месяцев назад

    Thy will be done on earth as it is in Valhalla.

  • @marcelbork92
    @marcelbork92 Месяц назад

    0:29 That is interesting, because in all "modern"" translations it is wrongly called "heaven", whereas the original wording is "Heavenly Kingdom" or "Heavenly Empire". Jesus Christ is the King or the Emperor of the World, and as He rules in Heavon, thus, heaven is His Empire, or at the least His "realm".

  • @ingvardruid7997
    @ingvardruid7997 Год назад +1

    Next please- Erzya and Moksha

  • @user-mrfrog
    @user-mrfrog Год назад

    Mjög gott!

  • @darkcardinal1729
    @darkcardinal1729 Месяц назад

    Icelandic people🇮🇸⬇️

  • @iogamesmaster4845
    @iogamesmaster4845 Год назад +2

    0:20 icelandic "sjo" sounds a lot like chinese "xue"

    • @cheesewiss6353
      @cheesewiss6353 Год назад +2

      ég hef aldrei heyrt þann samanburð áður 🤔

  • @lani6647
    @lani6647 Год назад

    An old norseman would be understood in Iceland

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Год назад

      I doubt a 9th century Gotlander would be understood in today's Iceland, though. The Old Norse spoken here is actually 14th century Old Icelandic with heavy influences of Modern Icelandic (the u vowel was completely different in Old Icelandic compared to Modern Icelandic, for example, and there was some kind of pitch accent (think Norwegian and Swedish sing-songy melody) present in Old Icelandic (which seems to have disappeared as late as in the 17th century!)

  • @user-cdf9fk2rqa
    @user-cdf9fk2rqa Год назад +3

    sex 💀💀💀💀💀

  • @eladbenm
    @eladbenm Год назад

    They’re similar af wow

  • @AyueKodamaes
    @AyueKodamaes 2 месяца назад

    Bjork's language 😂

  • @romario2674
    @romario2674 Год назад +8

    I loved the prayer cause I am a Jesus's follower who loves the Norse things

  • @contrarian8870
    @contrarian8870 Год назад +1

    Sounds like if you can't pronounce "r", you'd have trouble communicating in Old Norse

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 4 месяца назад

      There were several r sounds in Old Norse depending on time and dialect. In classical Old Norse there were two distinct r sounds, but the actual pronounciation depended on the time and dialect, and by the time of classical Old Icelandic they had merged n most dialects (but into different r sounds depedning on time and dialect, of course).

  • @youngdaddy8996
    @youngdaddy8996 Год назад +2

    first

    • @Demirorda
      @Demirorda Год назад +3

      I'm first you're 3rd but not necessary

  • @Covington.mo_g66nig
    @Covington.mo_g66nig Год назад

    Old Norse Is Anglo-Saxon

  • @D.Baatar1998
    @D.Baatar1998 9 месяцев назад

    Sounds like Turkic-Mongolian mixed with German

  • @scottwilson8499
    @scottwilson8499 Год назад +4

    Icelandic is basically a modern version of old Norse, that is so cool! Vikings still exist after all

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Год назад +1

      This Old Norse is a very late Old Icelandic (14th century) with heavy Modern Icelandic influence (the speaker gotta base the pronounciation on something already existing). We don't have actual recordings of, say, 10th century Swedes speaking. That'd be light years from the reconstruction of a very partocular variety of Old Norse (Iceland, 14th century, Modern Icelandic and foreign accent) in this video.

  • @DixieBanjo
    @DixieBanjo Год назад

    Amazing how English seems closer to Old Norse than Icelandic if you only listen and not read it

    • @meginna8354
      @meginna8354 10 месяцев назад +1

      Different people narrating