Language quiz
Here’s a recording of a poem being read in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?
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Arakun on 31 Aug 2008 at 11:12 am #
Old norse?
Arakun on 31 Aug 2008 at 11:23 am #
Oh never mind. I found it. Just do a search on YouTube for “old norse”. :)
Frágu frǿknan et fjǫr vilði
Gotna þjóðann
Golli kaupa
Hjarta skal mér Hǫgna
Í hendi liggja
Blóðigt ór brjósti
Skorit baldriða
Hér hefek hjarta
Hjalla ins blauða
Ólíkt hjarta
Hǫgna ins frǿkna
Er mjǫk bifisk
Er á bjóði liggr
Bifðisk hǫlfu meir
Þá er í brjósti lá
Adam on 31 Aug 2008 at 12:53 pm #
I defintely know it’s a Germanic languages lol
Possibly - Old Norse, Old Danish/Swedish, Faroese?, Icelandic?, It’s definetly not German, Dutch, English, Afrikaans, Frisian, Limburgs o’r a German dialect .
renato figueiredo on 31 Aug 2008 at 4:59 pm #
Arakun is correct it is a poem in Old Norse. The words are exactly, what he wrote. The poet looks like a mad man.
Simon on 01 Sep 2008 at 9:35 am #
It is indeed Old Norse and the recording comes from YouTube.
TJ on 01 Sep 2008 at 10:53 am #
Translation …. ?
renato figueiredo on 01 Sep 2008 at 11:56 am #
TJ, I think if you click on Simon’s answer, and link to you tube, the movie is also written in old Norse, English and Norwegian.Good luck
TJ on 02 Sep 2008 at 9:19 am #
renato: thanks I didn’t notice that the first time.
Just a question out of this topic. I was reading the new stuff section and got into the Yiddish phrases page. I was wondering, from where did the word “Yiddish” come from? Is it an adjective for (Yid)? …… if so what is Yid ?
Mike on 02 Sep 2008 at 9:43 am #
TJ: I believe it is a mutation of “jüdisch,” which is German for “jewish.”
TJ on 02 Sep 2008 at 2:52 pm #
Oh now it makes sense!
Thanks!
WCook on 29 Oct 2008 at 7:23 pm #
Yep, Old Norse is what’s for dinner. Could it be some Beowulf-ish epic poem? Is this a historical-type exerpt?