{"id":15326,"date":"2021-05-03T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15326"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:14:27","slug":"old-norse-for-modern-times-by-ian-stuart-sharpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15326","title":{"rendered":"‘Old Norse for Modern Times,’ by Ian Stuart Sharpe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For some of our readers,<\/strong> this will be the book you\u2019ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Stuart Sharpe has produced an eccentric but highly amusing little book for the Viking fancier. Old Norse for Modern Times<\/a><\/em> is not a language course or a dictionary, but a fun collection of modern phrases rendered into the language of the Vikings. The utility of this book will probably be limited, but it is a lot of fun, especially for reenactors, saga nerds, and Viking buffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever want to say, \u201cI\u2019ll make him an offer he can\u2019t refuse\u201d <\/em>in Old Norse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cG\u00f8ra mun ed hom bo\u00f0 slike, es hann getr eigi hafnat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Since Hamlet was in fact an old Viking (or pre-Viking) himself, he might actually have said, \u201cSomething is rotten in the state of Denmark:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEigi mun alt d\u00e6lt I Danm\u01ebrku.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also useful stuff for the contemporary berserker: \u201cIf I die in battle today, please delete my browser history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEf ek skylda falla i \u00feessi orrustu, fyrirkom \u00fe\u00fa \u00fe\u00e1 vefs\u01ebgu minni.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I must admit to some surprise in reading this book, in spite of all the knowledge I like to pretend I have. It generally takes more words to say stuff in Old Norse than in English \u2013 as a writer composing Viking dialogue, I\u2019ve always thought of the Vikings as terse in speech. That\u2019s probably just a function of English saga translations, it would appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of us have pondered learning Old Norse at one time or another (I know I have, but I have trouble keeping track of just two languages). If you\u2019re one of those people, Old Norse for Modern Times <\/em>may serve as a good introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you may want to read it just because it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some of our readers, this will be the book you\u2019ve been waiting for. Ian Stuart Sharpe has produced an eccentric but highly amusing little book for the Viking fancier. Old Norse for Modern Times is not a language course or a dictionary, but a fun collection of modern phrases rendered into the language of … Continue reading ‘Old Norse for Modern Times,’ by Ian Stuart Sharpe<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[3697,2082,3698,3272],"class_list":["post-15326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-reviews","tag-ian-stuart-sharpe","tag-old-norse","tag-old-norse-for-modern-times","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15344,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions\/15344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}