Vecchio svedese, voi islandesi lo capite?
di Hingamblegoth
Vecchio svedese, voi islandesi lo capite?
di Hingamblegoth
4 commenti
Some words i dont make sense of but, i get the general gist of it
This looks far more familiar than modern Swedish, yeah. I would say about half the sentences there or maybe a little less are completely comprehensible.
Most of the rest *almost* are. There’s just enough unfamiliar keywords in a lot of these sentences to scramble them for me, even though most of the words are obvious. Like, I didn’t catch that “fiæt” is the noun-form of “feta” until the guy in the video explained it.
Most of it yes, but truth be told I don’t know if I could understand as much if I hadn’t been made to read some Old Icelandic texts in school. This could very clearly be called a dialect of the same language in terms of how similar they are. Interestingly I can understand parts of the spoken word better than the text. I was initially a bit confused by the word ‘résa’ but this use of the word is a lot closer to what is usual in English than in Icelandic.
It’s almost as his thick swedish accent is making it worse. I understand more from reading the thing rather than listening to the swedish guy. Many of the words are the same as in current Icelandic. Not written the same but spoken the same. While we understand many of the words it’s still down to the dialect which is really old, not even old folks in Iceland speak in such sentences. If an Icelander would read this out loud I reckon it would be much easier to follow. The Icelandic language is the closest to the language the vikings spoke. So to answer the question yes, we do understand it about 60+%. You can probably find some icelandic scholars who are even more familiar with this type of dialect and they can probably understand it 95+%.