Bernd
2021-07-20 23:40:16 ⋅ 3y
No. 117653
Nordic languages Bernd reporting in on this kc. Any questions or related topics you want to talk about?
Bernd
2021-07-20 23:55:32 ⋅ 3y
No. 117655
I want talk about Gold Mining in Lapland.
Bernd
2021-07-21 00:09:36 ⋅ 3y
No. 117656
>>117655
Never heard about it, although I know mining used to be an important thing for northern Sweden and places like Kiruna are basically mining towns. What should we know about gold mining in Lapland?
Bernd
2021-07-21 19:39:12 ⋅ 3y
No. 117687
You can get 5kg Gold without hydraulik mashines, 20kg with excavator. But i think hydraulik mashines have been forbidden.
Also you can find there star sapphire and almandine.
Bernd
2021-07-21 20:34:49 ⋅ 3y
No. 117688
Lol, BBC fin yesterday and now you?
More and more posters I actually liked on KC are coming here
Bernd
2021-07-21 20:52:08 ⋅ 3y
No. 117689
>>117688
I'm not Gold-Lamborghini Bernd. He lives in California.
Bernd
2021-07-21 21:13:27 ⋅ 3y
No. 117690
>>117689
Dump your entire worry bera folder pls
Bernd
2021-07-21 21:23:27 ⋅ 3y
No. 117691
>>117690
I posted my whole why worry collection at the new year on pedochan. For you my friend i will create a thread here.
Bernd
2021-07-21 21:48:41 ⋅ 3y
No. 117728
Bernd
2021-07-21 22:04:30 ⋅ 3y
No. 117749
Gold Bernd bought a burned Lamborghini and ran out of the money then he started prospecting Gold.
I'm disabled Bernd.
Bernd
2021-07-21 22:49:54 ⋅ 3y
No. 117754
Bernd
2021-07-22 14:38:59 ⋅ 3y
No. 117776
Reporting in. Btw German isn't nordic.
Bernd
2021-07-22 15:50:01 ⋅ 3y
No. 117782
>>117776
I have never claimed so. But I understand all North-Germanic languages to some extent.
Bernd
2021-07-22 17:42:51 ⋅ 3y
No. 117787
>>117782
Even Icelandic and Faroese?
Bernd
2021-07-22 18:11:29 ⋅ 3y
No. 117788
>>117787
I have studied them both and can read them without much trouble. I don't have much listening practice with Faroese, though, and both tend to have speakers that are hard to understand because of dialects or bumbling.
Bernd
2021-07-22 23:33:17 ⋅ 3y
No. 117806
Well hello there fellow Nordics
Bernd
2021-08-05 13:46:40 ⋅ 3y
No. 118941
Did you know that Britain was christianized from two directions: Ireland and France?
Did you know that Irish was the first european vernacular language to be written in the Latin alphabet?
Did you know that many Christian missionaries in Germany came from Britain?
Did you know that Bremen and Hamburg in northern Germany were important centers for the project of christianizing Scandinavia? For example Þangbrandr, the most famous christian missionary to Iceland, was German (though sources are uncertain if he was from Saxony or Bremen).
Bernd
2021-08-07 11:47:01 ⋅ 3y
No. 119177
Did you know there are people still living in Iceland who used to inhabit such turf houses?
Bernd
2021-08-07 11:54:55 ⋅ 3y
No. 119180
>>119177
For people interested in such things, I recommend visiting and getting a guided tour at Glaumbær in Northern Iceland, where a large turf house is preserved as a museum. I can also recommend reading relevant passages of Grettis saga Ásmundarssonar (The saga of Grettir the strong). He had a pretty ebin fight with an undead entity in such a turf house about 700 years ago.
Bernd
2021-08-07 12:00:34 ⋅ 3y
No. 119181
Here is also my hot take if you want to learn Old Norse: Learn modern Icelandic!
You're much more likely to find classes and learning material for modern Icelandic and you're much more likely to stick to learning and be successfull at learning. And when you're somewhat competent in modern Icelandic, understanding Old Norse is just like figuring out a different dialect. Like having learned American English and reading Shakespeare or talking to an Australian. Also: A lot of important secondary literature, for example the most detailed edda commentaries, are in modern icelandic.
Bernd
2021-08-07 12:04:01 ⋅ 3y
No. 119183
Pic rel is a medieval poem on the left and a modernized version on the right. You can see how there is not much of a difference between medieval and modern icelandic.
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:08:09 ⋅ 3y
No. 119188
>>119181
So you speak icelandic?
What are the benefits of knowing that language other than having a fetish for languages?
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:15:49 ⋅ 3y
No. 119190
>>119188
Yes.
Benefits: Being able to navigate Iceland in a very different way from tourists, access to corpus of untranslated literature, appreciation for a literary tradition in the original. Other than that: Not a lot. I hope to maybe earn money as a translator in the future, but unless you have specific reasons I'd recommend learning French or Spanish instead.
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:21:22 ⋅ 3y
No. 119192
>>119190
can you record how you say something? i want to hear it
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:37:09 ⋅ 3y
No. 119193
>>119192
https://voca.ro/1ns1JQoVvPaA
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:44:24 ⋅ 3y
No. 119194
Nordics have their own language? Is it completely alien?
Bernd
2021-08-07 13:48:59 ⋅ 3y
No. 119195
>>119194
Some say they speak German, others say it is actually Old High German.
Bernd
2021-08-07 14:06:26 ⋅ 3y
No. 119196
Actually, there are plenty of theories about Germans in space. The idea that the Nazis developed UFOs and escaped to the moon at the end of WWII being among the more popular. There is also some crackpot called Erhard Landmann, I'm not sure if he is still alive, who had a way of translating every single language and script system as actually German and seemed to believe in some type of German ancient aliens that came to earth in prehistory.
Bernd
2021-08-07 20:06:54 ⋅ 3y
No. 119226
Does Svalbard have a separate Nordic language?
Bernd
2021-08-07 20:36:38 ⋅ 3y
No. 119235
>>119226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russenorsk
Bernd
2021-08-07 20:44:55 ⋅ 3y
No. 119237
>>119235
What horror
I expect it is worse than even runglish
Bernd
2021-08-07 20:46:58 ⋅ 3y
No. 119238
>>119237
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%E2%80%93Icelandic_pidgin
Bernd
2021-08-11 14:01:28 ⋅ 3y
No. 119580
>>119195
That was my guess.
Bernd
2021-08-14 08:48:11 ⋅ 3y
No. 119858
>>119580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsRMp3FA9mk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drWjQ3bpGhw
Bernd
2021-08-14 08:53:14 ⋅ 3y
No. 119859
>>119858
>record scratch
>freeze frame
>"Sooo, yeah. I bet you're wondering how I ended up here, huh?"