This is modern Icelandic not the reconstructed pronounciation.
Modern Icelandic is the closest language phonetically and morphologically to old Norse.
@@DarkMatterX1 Still, reconstruction exists for a reason. The languages being closely related doesn’t mean Icelandic=Old Icelandic, just like English isn’t the same as Ænglisc. You’re not gonna see people using Spanish or Italian to speak Classical Latin. I’m probably going way too overboard with this, but just tired of people using the same random sound byte of Icelandic, and then proceeding to call it “the viking language.”
We literally get tought Old Norse in Norway.... We know what it sounded like.
So...
Icelandic
i mean old norse became old icelandic became icelandic in just the past thousand years so yeah they still sound pretty similar.
The person who spoke first is not modern Icelandic the second person sounds exactly like a 30 year old icelandic dad on the golf course. (I'm Icelandic)
People need to stop using the term “Viking” as if it were a term for a specific ethnic group.
Medieval Scandinavian. There. I fixed it for you.
It is though. A viking is a scandinavian warrior, specifically what this guy is covering in the video.
The discredit of vikings and the attempted stealing of scandinavian history and culture is ridiculous.
@@prinz5816 I agree that the stealing of any culture is ridiculous. The term Viking, however, is not an ethic group. The word means pirate or raider. The proper wording should be pre-Christian or Viking age (the age when raiding or piracy was at its height; Viking activity) Scandinavian. Scandinavian does denote ethnicity, Viking does not.
@@newworldlubbock And viking was only used for scandinavians… it is culturaly & historicaly ONLY denoted to them.
You could make the same (flawed) case that a "Carolean" could by any solider, and not just a swedish musketeer under Carolus Rex.
We know what they sound like, we also know what language they spoke. It's called Old Norse, it's a little hard to learn because it's like Old English on crack. But with enough practice it's easy.
This isn’t what Norse sounds like - the pronunciation is not exaggerated or guttural or over-enunciated or stiff or robotic in any of the Germanic languages!
The reconstructed pronunciation of ancient languages is kinda incorrect, I can assure ye that Old Norse and Gothic and Old English etc did not sound like that (stiff and robotic with pushed vowels and prolonged As 😂 and with funny intonations that sound as if they were reciting stories in an exaggerated way etc) and that they all sounded very normal...
The right pronunciations are way more natural actually and the vowels are pronounced differently, depending on the word, because it is logical to think that such well-constructed languages had the most logical pronunciation that was decided based on what sounded best and had a better flow in each word, same as all the modern languages...
Old Norse would sound closer to the pronunciation by the singers from the band Skáld, the pronunciation of Old English definitely didn’t have funny intonations and over-pronounced Rs or pushed vowels etc and is in fact supposed to sound very natural, and Gothic isn’t supposed to sound stiff and over-enunciated either and it didn’t have an ‘open’ pronunciation like German as the German accent doesn’t sound right in Gothic...
I am upper intermediate level in both Old Norse and Icelandic, and I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like dropa or drapa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...
In the audio the big guy is speaking Old Norse and the other guy is speaking Icelandic.
Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse and still uses most of the same words with some slight variations in spelling and construction of sentences
Viking Is a Occupation not A Ethnicity There’s nothing Stopping a Gael From going Viking
Old Scandinavian my friend.
It's just Icelandic! 😂🤣🤣
It sounded like "death is coming" .
Icelandic is the closest language to Old Norse there is.
It's litterly the voice actor for highlander In for honor I recognize it
Just Google "Arne Torp konungs skuggsjá" and you will know what it sounded like
Yes we norwegians know!!!!
Can you not use cliché viking outfits...
source??that doesn't sound like another reconstruction heard before, the sounds closer to finish.
Lol. This is from an Icelandic comedy show.
Lyder som en nordjyde😂😂😂
Albanian today
It can be based on Icelandic and Faroese which are more conservative and quite close to Old Norse
Язык другой, но звучание похоже на русский
West norse for sure. You can hear the strong ek.
i can fully understand it
Sounds like normal Norwegian with Americans voices 🤣🤣 if the American Germanic people were in our home land this is still what it would sound like
This sound clip is from an Icelandic sketch comedy show. Really funny sketch, but not exactly a good example of how old Norse sounded. I mean, the whole joke of the sketch is that one of the guys is just speaking hyper modern Icelandic.
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There are a group of people 3,000 living in a forest in Sweden who still use the old viking language
This is actually true. They are trying to revive old norse as a main language. Theres only small portion as of now but maybe one day this community will grow.
It is called Elfdalian (natively: Övdalska) and it is not the same as Old Norse. There are quite a lot of similarities and differences, but due to pronounciation, Modern Elfdalian is unintelligable with Old Norse
Completely false, what you're talking about is Elfdalian, Elfdalian is interesting because it's an isolated language that retains some linguistic features of Old Norse but it is nowhere close to being Old Norse, Elfdalian speakers understand no more Old Norse than a standard Swede would.
Icelandic is the language that is by far the closest to Old Norse.
There are pockets of groups that actually still speak old Norse in Iceland too this day. It’s not many but it is still spoken
@@hamishcox4714no. old norse is a dead language. the have been no native speakers for several hundred years.
No, Icelandic is just super conservative compared to the rest of the Germanic languages, some Icelanders might have an accent that closer resembles Old Norse than others, but no one actually still speaks it as a native language. However, Icelanders can, for the most part, understand Old Norse, especially in writing. This is because the written form of Icelandic hasn’t changed nearly as much as the spoken form since the Middle Ages. Apparently, it’s a similar experience for them as an English speaker reading Shakespeare
Not just writing, you can also quite easily understand it spoken if you know Icelandic. I would say the Shakespeare comparison makes some sense but is maybe a bit too far, pretty much all of Old Norse is just formal Icelandic.
It wouldn’t sound like they because it should be spoken slower lol
Imagine they just sounded like football fans at the pub
Why does it sounds like old Dutch mixed with German and then coated in Russian
Vikings were not a people or a nation. Viking was an activity. This is like asking how did the US plumbers language sound like.
That is true for sure, but an activity exclusively connected to medival scandinavians. Saying that vikings spoke old norse is correct.
IDK but there is a whole friggin village of 3000 people who actually speak it so there you go
Sounds like Icelandic to me.
It is Icelandic the two men who are talking is from a icelandic comedy series
Knekkebreud
huh
Was ilirians and Albanian today
A Viking language?? Vikings were no nation or country. They were just invaders from Norway, Denmark or Iceland ect. The act of raiding was called: "vikingr".
So it's the same you would have the same language for sailors or fishermen from different countries 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
There are plenty of people who speak old norske till this day. The wolf cults of the north never adopted modern languages at all.... Ffs
Sounds like there's a schtickle of Yiddish in there.
It's sounds like Hungarian.😅
@@csabafamin2277 I don't speak, that's Hungarian, but that in my opinion it's sounds little similar.
Viking Warriors | The Epic Wrath of the Northmen
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This isn’t what Norse sounds like - the pronunciation is not exaggerated or guttural or over-enunciated or stiff or robotic in any of the Germanic languages!
The reconstructed pronunciation of ancient languages is kinda incorrect, I can assure ye that Old Norse and Gothic and Old English etc did not sound like that (stiff and robotic with pushed vowels and prolonged As 😂 and with funny intonations that sound as if they were reciting stories in an exaggerated way etc) and that they all sounded very normal...
The right pronunciations are way more natural actually and the vowels are pronounced differently, depending on the word, because it is logical to think that such well-constructed languages had the most logical pronunciation that was decided based on what sounded best and had a better flow in each word, same as all the modern languages...
Old Norse would sound closer to the pronunciation by the singers from the band Skáld, the pronunciation of Old English definitely didn’t have funny intonations and over-pronounced Rs or pushed vowels etc and is in fact supposed to sound very natural, and Gothic isn’t supposed to sound stiff and over-enunciated either and it didn’t have an ‘open’ pronunciation like German as the German accent doesn’t sound right in Gothic...
I am upper intermediate level in both Old Norse and Icelandic, and I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like dropa or drapa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...