Sean175 (October 5, 2008 at 2:41 am)

Thanks AceHammy for your effort, great song it is, cheers from Germany

AceHammy (October 4, 2008 at 7:50 pm)

A correct translation of the song was posted earlier, i have seen.

AceHammy (October 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm)

A correct translation and quote will follow.

AceHammy (October 4, 2008 at 7:05 pm)

A summary of the song:The daughter of an icelandic rancher is ill. A servant of the family tries to cure her with rune stones in her bed. But she becomes iller. Then comes Egil, a skald and runemaster. The father of the girl asks him, whether he could help. Egil examines the daughter and subsitutes the "wrong" rune stones through the right ones. The girl becomes healthy and her father is now an ally and friend of Egil.

mjonas10 (October 2, 2008 at 3:27 pm)

Sort of, but i would rather say that East-Norse and West-Norse was two dialects of the same language, just like Swedish and Norwegian is now. I know, Swedish and Norwegian aren't officially the same language but they just as well could be.

Frostulvinne (October 1, 2008 at 2:41 pm)

Hehe, yeah, it's Norse too, but from what I can recall being taught in school, already during the Viking Age, there was a distinction between the language of the Norwegians/Icelandic and Swedes/Danes. If I'm not quite mistaken, the language sung in this song is the Norse called "West-Norse" or "West-Nordic", and the one spoken by Swedes and Danes was called "East-Norse/Nordic". But anyways, no one knows what a Viking-conversation sounded like anyway. :P

mjonas10 (October 1, 2008 at 8:13 am)

What would you call the language spoken by Swedish vikings if not old Norse then?

Sinanbubble (September 30, 2008 at 6:11 pm)

Frostulvinne could you please translate it or could you just speake/read the "normal" norse - speech?

dogu85 (September 30, 2008 at 11:10 am)

am besten...wunderbar!!!!!

theromanian19 (September 29, 2008 at 11:25 pm)

Frostulvinne that is interesting to know.