Old Norse | Can Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic speakers understand it? @JacksonCrawford
1,083,412
Published 2021-07-08
📝 Volunteer your language skills for the future videos → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9I2GI7plOElgXkQ…
🤓 Join the Ecolinguist DISCORD Server → discord.gg/xKBQCc3V57
🏋️♀️ Support my Work:
My name is Norbert Wierzbicki and I am the creator of @Ecolinguist channel.
☕️Buy me a Coffee → www.paypal.me/ecolinguist (I appreciate every donation no matter how big or small🤠)
📱Instagram: @the.ecolinguist
📝 Contact details for the guests of the show are:
🤠💬🤓 Jackson Crawford, Old Norse and Norse mythology expert → @Jackson Crawford
📱Instagram: @norsebysw
📚 Jackson's Books → www.amazon.com/Jackson-Crawford/e/B00SJJONWK/
🇳🇴💬🤓 Torleif Villmones, Norwegian teacher online → @norwegian square
📱Instagram: @torleif_villmones
📝 www.norwegiansquare.com/
🇩🇰💬🤓 Michael Rasmussen, Danish teacher online → @MicsLanguages
📱Instagram: @micslanguages
📝 micslanguages.com/
🇮🇸💬🤓 Óskar Bragi, Icelandic online teacher → @Learning Icelandic With Speak Viking,
📱Instagram: @speakviking
📝 www.speakviking.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro in Old Norse, Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian
2:16 - Intro in English
3:17 - 1. Sentence
05:45 - 2. Sentence
10:03 - 3. Sentence
17:55 - 4. Sentence
25:30 - 5. Sentence
36:07 - Commentary in English and behind the scenes
🎥Recommended videos:
🇳🇱 vs 🇬🇧 Dutch Language | Can English speakers understand it? | #1 → • Dutch Language | Can English speakers...
🤓🇬🇧 Old English vs Modern English speakers → • Old English Language | Can American, ...
🇩🇪 German vs 🇳🇱 Dutch vs 🇧🇪 Flemish → • German vs Dutch vs Flemish | Can they...
🤓 🦂 Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand it? → • Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, ...
🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻
#vikings
All Comments (21)
-
Me, an Italian, watching the whole thing without understanding a single word: entertained.
-
Icelandic guy is like "when are we gonna stop speaking Icelandic and get to the Old Norse?"
-
Key take away: if you are going to time travel back to the Viking age, take an Icelander with you.
-
As a swede, the pronunciation I could HARDLY understand any of it. But the sentences kind of made sense on some of them. Man I have a lot of admiration for Icelandic people
-
icelandic guy : just chilling danish guy : trying hard to understand norwegian guy : why i am here
-
As an Icelander, I was preparing myself for disappointment, because we've always been told we'd be able to communicate fairly easily with hypothetical Old Norse time travelers, and I half expected this video to come and dash that prideful dream... But no, I understood everything, even without the written form, and am very pleased to see we still got it!
-
Super interesting to see how Icelandic isolation has helped to retain a large proportion of the old language.
-
I'm from Iceland and I had the exact same reaction to everything as Óskar did! I knew we were quite close to Old Norse but I didn't realise it was this close. It would be interesting to travel back in time to medieval Norway and see just how much I'd understand.
-
Expert: "Snjór fell einn dag í skóginum" Norwegian: " I don't know this Snjorbert dude"
-
Love how everyone is looking in the beginning. The Norwegian, questioning every life choice, the Dane, realising he made a mistake agreeing to this and the Icelander just casually listening. Haha
-
Fun fact : in French, we have the word "mésange" which comes from Frankish and has the same origin as "meisingar". I would never have guessed, but just checked.
-
I'm totally shocked to see that Icelandic and Old Norse are basically the same language... Cheers for Iceland !
-
I love the Icelander just repeating back the exact same sentence when asked to translate
-
Being Norwegian, the Norwegian guy is totally lost. I didn’t understand everything, but I would say any other Norwegian would be about as good as the Dane
-
I am Norwegian, from Bergen. I can somewhat understand the written language. Understanding the spoken word is far more difficult.
-
What is really cool is seeing the cognates in English, given the history of old Norse is integral to the history of English linguistically. Literally "þessen" being the root of "this" and "these" is just one the coolest damn things to unpack when looking at Scandinavian languages old and modern.
-
YES finally! Now all we need is “Old English can Dutch, German and West Frisian speaker understand it” video and my life will be complete
-
Every Icelander watching this has realised they could easily get a qualification in Old Norse
-
Little sad we had no swedish representative here! I as a Swede did understand parts of this and could have done some good guessing! To everyone complaining about the norwegian guy please stop. I know this dilemma all too well. When put on the spot you easily blackout and things that you normally would find simple get more difficult. Kudos to all participating for an entertaining video! :)
-
As a Danish person who has lived in Iceland, this was all really easy to understand, even without the written version. I would like to add that 12th century Norse and modern Scandinavian languages as well as Icelandic have a lot of words that phonetically sound almost the same in modern English. Just take words like: ship, boat, axe, hammer, sail, mast, anchor, shield, spear, sword, knife etc. 😀
