Comments on: Recordings of Reconstructed Old Norse http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/ News, Announcements, Comment and Resources for Medieval Scandinavian Studies Sat, 11 May 2013 04:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Recordings of Old Norse pronunciation | Let’s learn Icelandic http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-119156 Recordings of Old Norse pronunciation | Let’s learn Icelandic Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:09:56 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-119156 [...] all (as opposed to reading everything as if it were modern Icelandic). For reference, here’s a post listing a few [...] [...] all (as opposed to reading everything as if it were modern Icelandic). For reference, here’s a post listing a few [...]

]]> By: Lars Vilhelmsen http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-79261 Lars Vilhelmsen Wed, 11 May 2011 10:48:53 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-79261 Arne Torp today sent me a link to this resource http://www.lazarus.no/aschehoug/grip_teksten/Norront/main.html It is not in english, but click on the titles in the lefthand side and on the horn next to the old norse texts to hear i read aloud. Perhaps google translate can help you navigate the site. Arne Torp today sent me a link to this resource

http://www.lazarus.no/aschehoug/grip_teksten/Norront/main.html

It is not in english, but click on the titles in the lefthand side and on the horn next to the old norse texts to hear i read aloud.

Perhaps google translate can help you navigate the site.

]]> By: Lars Vilhelmsen http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-79259 Lars Vilhelmsen Wed, 11 May 2011 09:00:53 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-79259 Julian Jamiesons pronunciation in the librivox.org recording is close to horrible. His american accent is way too heavy and it sounds nothing like Old Norse, which is closer to Old English or Icelandic. Raven of Denmarks translation of Arne Torps recording is very dramatic, but also very precise in his forming the words and sounds. I have studied Old English, Danish Language and Literature and some Norwegian and Swedish at Danish universities and have some knowledge in the matter. Julian Jamiesons pronunciation in the librivox.org recording is close to horrible. His american accent is way too heavy and it sounds nothing like Old Norse, which is closer to Old English or Icelandic.

Raven of Denmarks translation of Arne Torps recording is very dramatic, but also very precise in his forming the words and sounds.

I have studied Old English, Danish Language and Literature and some Norwegian and Swedish at Danish universities and have some knowledge in the matter.

]]> By: Glenna Mendez http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-72543 Glenna Mendez Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:09:12 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-72543 Oh, great, finally some reconstructed pronunciation! Thanks for the links. For me, that's the only way to read Old Norse, particularly poetry. Oh, great, finally some reconstructed pronunciation! Thanks for the links. For me, that’s the only way to read Old Norse, particularly poetry.

]]> By: kendra willson http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-70622 kendra willson Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:53:11 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-70622 I see that Vísindavefur has now posted a video of Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson reading chapter 6 of Íslendingabók with reconstructed pronunciation ca. 1200: http://visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=52263 I see that Vísindavefur has now posted a video of Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson reading chapter 6 of Íslendingabók with reconstructed pronunciation ca. 1200:
http://visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=52263

]]> By: Haukur Þorgeirsson http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-70378 Haukur Þorgeirsson Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:00:18 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-70378 My least bad offering is probably this one: http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/sounds/krakumal.html My least bad offering is probably this one:

http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/sounds/krakumal.html

]]> By: Alaric Hall http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-70016 Alaric Hall Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:18:57 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-70016 Benjamin Bagby's done a lot of sung performances in reconstructed pronunciation with Sequentia: http://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording23.html http://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording25.html Groove on! Alaric Benjamin Bagby’s done a lot of sung performances in reconstructed pronunciation with Sequentia:

http://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording23.html
http://www.sequentia.org/recordings/recording25.html

Groove on!

Alaric

]]> By: Chris Abram http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-69088 Chris Abram Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:41:55 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-69088 Hi, Amy, Reconstructed pronunciation is perfectly reputable and many people prefer it--not oddball at all! I use modern Icelandic pronunciation because that's how I was taught, mainly, but I think it also depends on how and where students are learning the language. I teach in a Scandinavian department, where Modern Icelandic is also taught, and I think it would be very confusing for students doing both languages to have to deal with two pronunciations. But I also find it reassuring to know that Modern Icelandic pronunciation, though anachronistic, is at least attested--indeed we can hear as much of it as we want. Since the reconstructed pronunciation is basically a highly educated guess, I don't think there's any reason in principle to prefer it (except for some specialized purposes) and that we should use whichever works best for us. Chris Hi, Amy,

Reconstructed pronunciation is perfectly reputable and many people prefer it–not oddball at all! I use modern Icelandic pronunciation because that’s how I was taught, mainly, but I think it also depends on how and where students are learning the language. I teach in a Scandinavian department, where Modern Icelandic is also taught, and I think it would be very confusing for students doing both languages to have to deal with two pronunciations. But I also find it reassuring to know that Modern Icelandic pronunciation, though anachronistic, is at least attested–indeed we can hear as much of it as we want. Since the reconstructed pronunciation is basically a highly educated guess, I don’t think there’s any reason in principle to prefer it (except for some specialized purposes) and that we should use whichever works best for us.

Chris

]]> By: Amy West http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-69065 Amy West Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:53:16 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-69065 If I could bring in the larger question of reconstructed vs. modern pronunciation . . . this is something that I brought up on Language Log during last spring's eruption because I mentioned that I use the historical reconstruction pronunciation of Old Norse and was pretty much called an "odd ball" because the respondent had *never* heard any Norse scholar use a reconstructed pronunciation. Well, that's what I was taught in my ON course. The one colleague I have in the area uses the modern Icelandic pronunciation. And this got me thinking and talking on ADS-L about the comparative treatment for English historical languages: in Shakespeare courses, generally, students are not taught a Renaissance pronunciation; but when reading Old English course we use a historical pron. So, I've always used the historical, reconstructed pron., treating ON as I would OE or OHG. Just how much of an odd ball am I? Is the academic "standard" really to use the modern Icelandic pron.? If I could bring in the larger question of reconstructed vs. modern pronunciation . . . this is something that I brought up on Language Log during last spring’s eruption because I mentioned that I use the historical reconstruction pronunciation of Old Norse and was pretty much called an “odd ball” because the respondent had *never* heard any Norse scholar use a reconstructed pronunciation.

Well, that’s what I was taught in my ON course. The one colleague I have in the area uses the modern Icelandic pronunciation. And this got me thinking and talking on ADS-L about the comparative treatment for English historical languages: in Shakespeare courses, generally, students are not taught a Renaissance pronunciation; but when reading Old English course we use a historical pron. So, I’ve always used the historical, reconstructed pron., treating ON as I would OE or OHG. Just how much of an odd ball am I? Is the academic “standard” really to use the modern Icelandic pron.?

]]> By: Merrill Kaplan http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/10/recordings-of-reconstructed-old-norse/comment-page-1/#comment-68956 Merrill Kaplan Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:54:45 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=668#comment-68956 Here are a few snippets, short but notable for having been read by Stefán Karlsson: http://www.fva.is/harpa/malsaga/3hluti/fornislensk.html Here are a few snippets, short but notable for having been read by Stefán Karlsson:

http://www.fva.is/harpa/malsaga/3hluti/fornislensk.html

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