Tolkien & Scandinavian miscellany from ''An Odd Discovery''

Post by **_MCB** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:48 pm

I'm getting busy on it.

Post by **_The Dude** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:50 am

Spurven Ten Sing wrote:ETA: for extra credit, name all six Nordic languages. Old Norse is not included.

Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic... okay, now I have to guess... Lapp?

Post by **_Sethbag** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:07 am

Finnish isn't a nordic language. If I recall, it's in a language group with Hungarian that's pretty unique from the others in the region.

Post by **_The Dude** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:33 am

I think you're right about the Finns. Okay, lets change that for Shetlandic.

Come on Spurven, it can't be that late in the land of pickled herring. What's the answer already?

Post by **_Spurven Ten Sing** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:24 am

The Dude wrote:
Spurven Ten Sing wrote:ETA: for extra credit, name all six Nordic languages. Old Norse is not included.

Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic... okay, now I have to guess... Lapp?

You have three of them! Good job.

Post by **_Spurven Ten Sing** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:29 am

Is that all the guesses? Seth is correct, I was limiting Nordic to refer to Germanic languages only. Saami and Finnish are no Germanic.

We have:
1. Danish: spoken in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faeroes.
2. Swedish: spoken in Sweden, Finland, and the Alands.
3. Bokmal Norwegian. spoken in Norway.
4. Nynorsk: spoken in Norway.
5. Icelandic: spoken in Iceland.
6. Faeroese: spoken in the Faeroes.

Shetlandic does not exist, you are thinking of Norn. That language is extinct.

New quiz: What two events mark the beginning and the end of the Viking Age?

Post by **_MCB** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:24 pm

The first attack on England, and the last.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/nda/nda00.htm

Post by **_bcspace** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:39 pm

If you or anyone ever has any questions about Scandinavian history or culture of any period, I am the man to see. It is the one perk of studying my way into hyper-specialization. A decade of college must count for something!

Son of a Norwegian here.

Post by **_moksha** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:51 am

Spurven Ten Sing wrote:Is that all the guesses? Seth is correct, I was limiting Nordic to refer to Germanic languages only. Saami and Finnish are no Germanic.

Is there also a connection to Old Forodwaithinan (Language group once found between the lands of Arnor and the Northern Waste)?

by the way, Mormonlings love mushrooms and dance a mean Hokey-Pokey.

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