#ofc once we get into more eloquent(?) territory there will be words that didn't survive the same way as the ones used in more daily speech
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#07 the green one#low stakes 🦇#🦇 rune#🦇 bat#🦇 einarr#🦇 morten#🧌hulda#📕 main story#📕 abandoned grounds#viking noises#old norse isn't that hard to understand in some cases tbh#especially if you already know norwegian#which rune does. it's the only language he's good at#and bruh in norway we have so many dialects and people will speak their actual dialects on tv. we get exposed to them. we're used to this#so those more basic old norse sentences with words that still resemble their modern counterparts? easy#ek etaði þau allar -- eg åt (present tense: eter) dem alle#it's so close!!#ofc once we get into more eloquent(?) territory there will be words that didn't survive the same way as the ones used in more daily speech#because see that's a thing i've noticed. the words that are the most like their ancient counterparts are the ones everyone uses all the tim#sounds still change of course#old west norse 'ek' turned into 'eg' in my local dialect#G is like a softer K you know#...i'm rambling about linguistics again aren't i
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