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  • čas přidán 19. 03. 2023
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Komentáře • 143

  • @gaaichia2238
    @gaaichia2238 Před rokem +271

    The Icelandic alphabet is ancient and beautiful.

    • @harakovic
      @harakovic Před rokem +19

      All beautiful untill number 6

    • @AllanLimosin
      @AllanLimosin Před rokem +5

      @@harakovic 😏

    • @esc_uella
      @esc_uella Před rokem +9

      @@harakovic sweden have it too, 6 is sex

    • @EminencePhront
      @EminencePhront Před rokem +18

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +249

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před rokem +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 Před 7 měsíci +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 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @moajonsson7726
    @moajonsson7726 Před rokem +110

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

    • @LSDANNY7x
      @LSDANNY7x Před rokem +1

      Thank u for commenting this

    • @frannyboo
      @frannyboo Před 11 měsíci +3

      Omg yes! Same 😂

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před 5 měsíci +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 Před měsícem

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

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia Před rokem +50

    Even the spoken modern language sounds ancient to my ears.

  • @cheesewiss6353
    @cheesewiss6353 Před rokem +43

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

    • @AlmaRakelK.
      @AlmaRakelK. Před rokem +2

      Hæ þarna (og ég er frá Íslandi)

    • @dan74695
      @dan74695 Před 11 měsíci +2

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

  • @leonardoschiavelli6478
    @leonardoschiavelli6478 Před rokem +141

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

    • @alanguages
      @alanguages Před rokem +41

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

    • @Lascombe
      @Lascombe Před 11 měsíci +1

      Vamo arriba el bolso

    • @birgirdagurbjarkason3085
      @birgirdagurbjarkason3085 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @vardr_runanna_8
      @vardr_runanna_8 Před měsícem

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

  • @bernhardwall6876
    @bernhardwall6876 Před rokem +20

    I've been watching Laufey's CZcams 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 Před rokem +22

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

    • @birgirdagurbjarkason3085
      @birgirdagurbjarkason3085 Před 5 měsíci +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__ Před rokem +13

    I was looking for this comparison. Thanks for uploading ❤️

  • @irinaivanovna6380
    @irinaivanovna6380 Před rokem +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 Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @sunduncan1151
    @sunduncan1151 Před rokem +13

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

    • @jarekdupa687
      @jarekdupa687 Před rokem +13

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +7

    I'm leaving a big heart here ❤️

  • @redflame21
    @redflame21 Před rokem +9

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

  • @user-ej3df4gw1s
    @user-ej3df4gw1s Před rokem +16

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

  • @QUS
    @QUS Před rokem +16

    Zamn its very similar

  • @wolfheartdarnell324
    @wolfheartdarnell324 Před rokem +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.

  • @Hyperion-5744
    @Hyperion-5744 Před rokem +3

    Good video andy. I plan visiting iceland one day.

  • @LelandLittleDog-ou4hf
    @LelandLittleDog-ou4hf Před rokem +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.

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Před rokem +5

    Very beautiful.

  • @Demirorda
    @Demirorda Před rokem +6

    Good job

  • @cesargomez376
    @cesargomez376 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

      The oldest Germanic language is Gothic.

    • @kamrankhan-lj1ng
      @kamrankhan-lj1ng Před rokem +6

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

    • @aitokoojii1462
      @aitokoojii1462 Před rokem +6

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

    • @ssllp6021
      @ssllp6021 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +4

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

  • @CinCee-
    @CinCee- Před rokem +21

    Old Norse sounds alot like Old English

    • @LearnRunes
      @LearnRunes Před rokem +15

      They're closely related languages.

    • @neyinnerse5614
      @neyinnerse5614 Před rokem +12

      It was mutually intelligible with Old English

    • @CinCee-
      @CinCee- Před rokem

      @@neyinnerse5614 Really? I never knew that

    • @voodoolilium
      @voodoolilium Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @alandrosstettina1843
    @alandrosstettina1843 Před rokem +7

    Icelandic is amazing!!

  • @GodstoneHawk
    @GodstoneHawk Před rokem +1

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

  • @HenryVandenburgh
    @HenryVandenburgh Před rokem +2

    Amazing.

  • @georgosdidymus2023
    @georgosdidymus2023 Před 20 dny

    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.

  • @Lampchuanungang
    @Lampchuanungang Před rokem +1

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

  • @user-iu4se2ps7d
    @user-iu4se2ps7d Před rokem +5

    Would love to visit Iceland one day

    • @cheesewiss6353
      @cheesewiss6353 Před rokem +1

      þú ættir alveg að 👍

    • @rla927
      @rla927 Před 7 měsíci

      Iceland is a fantastic place to visit

  • @yifuyang6188
    @yifuyang6188 Před 19 dny

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

  • @Pidalin
    @Pidalin Před rokem +2

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

  • @TheEmperorsChampion964
    @TheEmperorsChampion964 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Icelandic really hasn't changed much from old Norse

  • @irinaivanovna6380
    @irinaivanovna6380 Před rokem +3

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

    • @Pyovali
      @Pyovali Před rokem +1

      Sounds like Finnish, which has changed very little

    • @AthanasiosJapan
      @AthanasiosJapan Před rokem +3

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

    • @ozejjj
      @ozejjj Před rokem +3

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

    • @eladbenm
      @eladbenm Před rokem +1

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

    • @irinaivanovna6380
      @irinaivanovna6380 Před rokem +2

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

  • @anthony_depaz
    @anthony_depaz Před 2 měsíci

    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.

  • @HCRAYERT.
    @HCRAYERT. Před měsícem

    The Old Norse looks closer to English than Icelandic looks to English.

  • @Hamzachebbi137
    @Hamzachebbi137 Před rokem +3

    Nice video 😍💪😍

  • @brittibeeper
    @brittibeeper Před rokem +2

    Old Norse and Faroese?

  • @MaggotKingLife
    @MaggotKingLife Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @NickJoyhill
    @NickJoyhill Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @jacob_and_william
    @jacob_and_william Před rokem +1

    Definitely not identical but pretty dang close

  • @dalubwikaan161
    @dalubwikaan161 Před rokem +1

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

  • @SKITNICA95
    @SKITNICA95 Před 8 měsíci

    Basically same language. Differences could be on dialectal basis.

  • @rock078901
    @rock078901 Před rokem +1

    How similar!

  • @norielgames4765
    @norielgames4765 Před 7 měsíci +1

    It's the same language

  • @Lascombe
    @Lascombe Před 11 měsíci

    Sounds absurdly similar

  • @QUS
    @QUS Před rokem +3

    Less goo

  • @calummunn
    @calummunn Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @wolf_gus_green
    @wolf_gus_green Před rokem +3

    0:15 🤨📸

  • @Anonymous-py1sf
    @Anonymous-py1sf Před rokem

    Wow, so similar

  • @marcelbork92
    @marcelbork92 Před měsícem

    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".

  • @magnus00125
    @magnus00125 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @user-zp1qk3rx2t
    @user-zp1qk3rx2t Před rokem

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před 5 měsíci +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.

  • @lhozo9007
    @lhozo9007 Před rokem

    0:15 let's goooooooooo

  • @scottwilson8499
    @scottwilson8499 Před rokem +4

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před rokem +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.

  • @Hss2018player
    @Hss2018player Před rokem +1

    0:16 AYO

  • @soheiich2597
    @soheiich2597 Před 5 měsíci

    Ich kann erstaunlich viel verstehen.

  • @darkcardinal1729
    @darkcardinal1729 Před měsícem

    Icelandic people🇮🇸⬇️

  • @ansuzsociety
    @ansuzsociety Před rokem

    🙏

  • @romario2674
    @romario2674 Před rokem +8

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

  • @iogamesmaster4845
    @iogamesmaster4845 Před rokem +1

    0:16 be like

  • @SantaFe19484
    @SantaFe19484 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @ingvardruid7997
    @ingvardruid7997 Před rokem +1

    Next please- Erzya and Moksha

  • @iogamesmaster4845
    @iogamesmaster4845 Před rokem +2

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

    • @cheesewiss6353
      @cheesewiss6353 Před rokem +2

      ég hef aldrei heyrt þann samanburð áður 🤔

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 Před rokem

    😊🎉

  • @lani6647
    @lani6647 Před rokem

    An old norseman would be understood in Iceland

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před rokem

      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!)

  • @TheMyAss41
    @TheMyAss41 Před 9 měsíci

    0:16 😳

  • @contrarian8870
    @contrarian8870 Před rokem +1

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

    • @cognomen9142
      @cognomen9142 Před 5 měsíci

      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).

  • @user-cdf9fk2rqa
    @user-cdf9fk2rqa Před rokem +3

    sex 💀💀💀💀💀

  • @AyueKodamaes
    @AyueKodamaes Před 2 měsíci

    Bjork's language 😂

  • @eladbenm
    @eladbenm Před rokem

    They’re similar af wow

  • @user-mrfrog
    @user-mrfrog Před rokem

    Mjög gott!

  • @youngdaddy8996
    @youngdaddy8996 Před rokem +2

    first

    • @Demirorda
      @Demirorda Před rokem +3

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

  • @D.Baatar1998
    @D.Baatar1998 Před 10 měsíci

    Sounds like Turkic-Mongolian mixed with German

  • @Covington.mo_g66nig
    @Covington.mo_g66nig Před rokem

    Old Norse Is Anglo-Saxon

  • @DixieBanjo
    @DixieBanjo Před rokem

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

    • @meginna8354
      @meginna8354 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Different people narrating