[Wikipedia-l] Old norse

Tue Jan 4 00:00:54 UTC 2005

Hello,

As for me, i think it would be wonderfull to have  a free, open and rich 
old Norsk basis like Wikipedia. I have been  trying to learn Islandic in 
France, because I want to learn Old Norks and read the eddas in their 
own language ( I am fon dof philology) and it is quite difficult to find 
books or resorces in this old language. You know Tolkien started to 
learn Old norsk when he was 32 old, as a curious human spirit, and what 
he learn, cumulated to his large knwoledge in German and English 
families of language, permitted to créate a new fantastic world : his 
own historico-imaginative world.
Borgès, too, learn old Norks, and his dream of a Babel Library is a 
metaphore of  what the internet is actualyy for a part, and what he 
could be :)
So, it would be a pity not to use internet and Wikipedia to support  
thos luck to approach wonderfull old language an d perhaps fertilize the 
futur with human transformation.

Languages are not dead if there is on human who gets pleasure to 
pronounce, read, write with it...It can become esoteric for most people 
but internet could serve to give another luck to many languages and many 
human cultures.

Best regards

Pascale

Mark Williamson a écrit :

>What I meant is that now isn't really a good time for language
>proposals - they don't seem to be well-recieved, especially if they're
>for "dead" languages.
>
>Mark
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>On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:02:25 +0100, Vegard Aukrust <vegara at stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
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>>I will use the modified latin alphabeth. Old norse is not so different from
>>modern icelandic and often mistaken as that, but I want to use the same
>>language the one you find in Norwegian texts from the 12th, 13th and 14th
>>centuries. I don't find it more strange than latin, anglo-saxon or a lot of
>>other old langiages. The letters which are not used in modern English are as
>>follows: æ, o, ð and þ (but not ä, ö, ø or å as in modern scandinavian).
>>
>>Vegard Aukrust
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mark Williamson" <node.ue at gmail.com>
>>To: <wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org>
>>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 11:53 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Old norse
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>>>*cough*
>>>
>>>I'm not sure the current environment is the best place for a request
>>>regarding Old Norse. But anyhow, I have a question: will you use the
>>>runic script, or the latin script?
>>>
>>>Anyhow, my suggestion is that you first write a few articles off-site,
>>>and if you can try to find people who will help build the Wikipedia.
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:57:03 +0100, Vegard Aukrust <vegara at stud.ntnu.no>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>I want to start a Wikipedia page in old norse (gamalnorska), and I
>>>>suggest the language code "gno".
>>>>
>>>>Vegard Aukrust
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