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Who is the American guy though? Everything he says sound norse except the Y-sound

I speak passable Swedish and, like the Norwegian speaker, I thought the first sentence was also about a dude, haha. I thought it was something like, "One day Snor fell in the woods".

Actually they have a video of the same challenge but with Old English which I think you'd also find trippy as hell

If you haven't yet I really hope you check out Prof Crawford's videos on Old Norse history and language. He's a real A Colorado cowboy viking He's got some good videos on actual Rune use. I do wonder what modern swedish might look like if written in runes

As a norwegian i understood way more than my fellow norwegian here. Not sure if he had some technical difficulties or if his dialect was somehow the issue (although i dont think it should be). only the last sentence really tripped me up badly where i thought he was saying something like "Venner med vinger herfra oppover flyr" or "Friends with wings from here uppwards fly" which doesnt really make sense, but i felt like it was closer than what the Norwegian and Danish guys were thinking at least. Really cool to see the icelander acing this test tho!

Meisur (fræðiheiti: Paridae) er ætt spörfugla. is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisur

Maybe english earl is also connect with that 'before' thing. Also german erst 'first'.

In Polish kruk is for 'raven'. 😅

What's that matter with throwing dice?

Norwegian seems to troll it.

Your swearing sound very aussie.

Mais, warum ich verstehe c'est langues ici? Putain! Ich habe kleine Deutsch. But my first boyfriend was Swedish. Bin ich eine Savant? Or is it that mummy made me learn Latin roots. (Ja! I'm mixing tongues here...)

Interesting how óvinur/uvenner has changed between Scandinavia and Iceland. Óvinur means enemy in modern day Icelandic, exact opposite from friend. Found it interesting that you guys use it differently.

Swedish, unlike Danish, has been heavily influenced by Lower German because Sweden had at times a closer connection to Germany (lots of German Nobles/landowners in Sweden) than Denmark... or Norway. Subsequently it should be harder for you to understand Old Norse than for a Dane.

This vas very good adition, really missed Sweden, and Færeyjar, i am from iceland,

This is really interesting. Another interesting video is Dr Crawford with Simon Roper having a conversation, one in O.d Norse, the other in Old English.

"Old Norse is basically the mother of all Scandinavian languages". 100% Wrong. "Old Norse" is just a modern word for "Norrøn" which simply means "Old Icelandic" or "Northern Scandinavian". However, the language spoken by the Danish Vikings "Dansk Tunge" is referred to in the oldest Icelandic text "Fyrsta málfræðiritgerðin" as another language than Old Norse.

Manige Fugels buden in þissem Schagen.

Snaw fællþ anen Daȝ im Wald. Snow falls one day in the forest

Is this the equivalent of an english speaker hearing old english

My best attempt at converting the sentences to the Swedish dialect of the same period. Probably full of mistakes and inconsistencies. Snior fiol en dagh i skoghenum. Manger fughlar byghþu i þæssum skoghi. I þy høghsta træ i skoghenum, byghþu tve(r) mæsingar reþer sitt. Æn arla æn stormrin kom, stal kraka þera æg. Ven mæþ vinga haver þæn oven ær fliugher (flygher?). A thing of note is that this is just the written form. Some differences are pretty much just arbitrary spelling differences, like snior / snjór. I've left out vowel length markers (so kraka instead of kraaka or kráka)

Same for me, as spanish guy, pretending understand latin.

Here´s a Comparison of modern Germanic languages with the original language spoken by the Vikings in the Danelaw. The ancient Viking language "Danske Tunge" is mentioned in the oldest Icelandic text "Fyrsta málfræðiritgerðin". Here´s a recipe for nut oil written in Danske Tunge by the Danish doctor Hænrik Harpestræng who died in 1244. This text is older than most Icelandic Sagas. Please note that Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian has preserved the original common and neutral articles "en" and "et", as opposed to Icelandic which has no such articles: 1100-1200s Dansk Tunge: "Man skal takæ en dysk mæth nutæ kyærnæ oc en æggy skalæ full mæth salt oc en æggy skalæ full mæth het wat oc latæ them samæn i en heet mortel oc stampæ thæt wæl oc writhæ gømæn et klæthæ". Modern Danish: Man skal tage en tallerken med nøddekerner og en æggeskalfuld med salt og en æggeskalfuld med hedt vand og hælde dem sammen i en hed morter og stampe det godt og vride det gennem et klæde. Standard Norwegian: Du må ta en tallerken med nøttekjerner og et eggeskall fullt av salt og et eggeskall fullt av varmt vann og helle dem sammen i en varm morter og banke godt og vri det gjennom et klede. Modern Swedish: Man ska ta en tallrik med nötkärnor och ett äggskal fullt med salt och ett äggskal fullt med varmt vatten och hälla ihop dem i en het mortel och stampa det väl och vrida igenom en trasa. Modern English: Take a plate of nut kernels and an eggshell full of salt and an eggshell full of hot water and pour them together in a hot mortar and pound it well and wring it through a cloth. Modern Icelandic: Taka þarf disk af hnetukjörnum og eggjaskurn fulla af salti og eggjaskurn af heitu vatni og hella saman í heitt mortéli og þeyta vel og þrýsta í gegnum klút. Modern German: Man nimmt einen Teller Nusskerne, eine Eierschale voll Salz und eine Eierschale voll heißes Wasser, gießt beides in einen heißen Mörser, zerstampft es gut und wringt es durch ein Tuch. Modern Dutch: Je moet een bord met notenpitten en een eierschaal vol zout en een eierschaal vol heet water nemen en deze samen in een hete vijzel gieten en goed stampen en door een doek uitwringen. Modern Frisian: Do moatst in plaat mei nutepitten en in aaiskûl fol sâlt en in aaiskop fol waarm wetter nimme en dy byinoar yn in hite moarmer skine en goed klopje en troch in doek wringje.

You might do better than you might otherwise think if you are very familiar with old German of old English for that matter.

My husband is Icelandic and this sounds very similar to when I listen to him talk to his family.

So what does the sentence ""A friend with wings has the enemy that flies" actually mean? It is not correct in Modern English and it doesn't sound like any English proverb.

Since this is Old West Norse as someone pointed out in the comments, Is there someone who can speak Old East Norse so that we can see if it's easier for the Danish and Swedes to understand ?

Since it wasn't linked, here is the original video without Chirpy's chirping: czcams.com/video/5MRfVHU9fr0/video.html

I know no Scandinavian languages at all, though I am fluent in Russian and very familiar with French and Spanish. So I am going purely by instinct. And I haven't listened to the translation of the fourth sentence yet, and at first something told me there was something there about boiling an egg in a pot, which I'm sure is ridiculously wrong, but the context suggests something about the birds protecting their eggs through a storm.

Stackars norrman. XD They said it's "live" in the second sentence and he just missed that somehow. Then talks about missing hair hahaha, and says "byggur" when he can read that it's not that. 22:15 Yeah difficult one but knowing what it is it still makes so much sense. (22:35 Surely you also got "sitt".) You did really well, and better than the Dane even overall.

The Engish word for that bird is a Blue Tit. As someone from North East England, I understood a tiny bit, but not a huge amount. I do find it interesting that for all I may not have understood much of it, it was interesting that it doesn't sound foreign to me.

With respect to the word "haesta" for "highest," in English, we have "hoist ": e.g., to hoist a flag. So maybe that has Norse roots.

As a dane from the most northern Jutland (skagen), i understand most Swedish and Norwegian dialects, Icelandic is hard also the faroe island. But in writing i can actually understand a big part of it.

the problem is that Jackson Crawford consistently misspronounces old norse with characteristics of much later stages of the language, but despite how otten i cited accademic literature in the field of reconstructive linguistics, he just goes on and on and on with his selfcentered attitude. well to misspronounce vowels wrong cuz as an american you arent used to them is one thing, so when reciting longer passages you naturally cant surpress your native tongue, but to have acquired wrong habits is another ...

I heard him say: bargir fjuklar jokull i festin skogin not: margir figlar bjuggu í þessum skogin 🤣

Interesting that Welsh for to live is byw.

We learned runes in school, still it's been a long time since

How old is it the old linguege?

I cringe alot on how bad the norwegian guy was. This is not an accurate depiction of how we norwegians understand icelandic/old norse at all. Possibly the worst candidate to get on here.

4:58 siuuuu portugal on the map of virgins

Lífit es dauðafærð...

I actually find it a bit embarassing that we have an American schooling us Scandinavians on our old ancenstral language. But I would have done better than these guys. At least when reading the sentences written out I was able to understand all of them - apart from the last one.

why every Scandinavian knows English as if it were his native language?! I envy... in Ukraine, only young people somehow know English

So as an English speaker just like the Swedish Danish and Norwegian speaking people we couldn’t go back in time and speak with our ancestors, i heard old English maybe some from England or Scotland Ireland or Wales could understand but as an American i was thinking maybe Scandinavians could understand it more and the Icelandic dude basically understand anything from the old Norse and probably a lot of old English too

I'm mid-way through the vid, also betting on "Mr. L'Oreal" 🤔 Edit: WTFFFFFFFF 😂

A cow (heifer) got wings then it flew into the oven. Easy!

Fascinating video! (And I really like your voice!)

I wonder if hreidhr, nest, is related to cradle or crater (Moore's law - germanic languages turned initial k into initial h)

As a Spaniard from Honduras, I want to learn Old Norse, and avoid Danish. Age of Empires' Vikingr are the number 1 reason to learn it. To using the Vikings, and say "I´m gonna rape you!" to a female villager in Old Norse would be epic.

Hah! As a fluent Greek and Spanish speaker, I'm reminded of when I read the Koine Greek from the Bible and compare it to the modern Greek (but the differences are nowhere this drastic). Koine Greek vs modern Greek is more like the difference in Spanish and Portuguese, where you can, with some time and patience, understand the meaning of at least 70% of what the other person is saying or writing. This comparison in the video was probably more like Spanish vs French, where both parties might be able to understand 20%-30% of each other?