User talk:ISNorden

Hey, fancy meeting you here :) Haukur 21:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speak of the dickens...I thought you'd fallen off the edge of the Net. I mostly fix spelling errors and other typos here, although I am willing to fix factual errors as long as I know the topic of an article well enough. I'm especially willing to help with articles about Scandinavian linguistics, history, and culture; if you need help with the lore^H^H^H^H mythology articles, I'd be happy to pitch in too. ISNorden 21:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've been trying to get Freyr up to featured article status for ages but there's still a lot of work to do. I'd love to have your help :) Just having someone to talk to who actually knows this stuff would make all the difference. Haukur 21:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Freyr, eh? I'll take a look at the article soon; what kind of material do you need added or changed? Keeping a neutral POV may be difficult there <g>; still, I've managed to write purely academic essays on Norse religion and legends before. ISNorden 21:44, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, my basic problem is that I've gathered a lot of quotes of primary sources but to make a readable coherent article I suppose it's necessary to paraphrase and summarize more. Haukur 21:52, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Thanks for the message! Does Wikipedia have anything like a Wiki rune project? emk 15:27, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To the best of my knowledge it doesn't; why not ask at one of the help pages? A rune project would interest a lot of the Germanic/Scandinavian history buffs here, I'd bet... ISNorden 15:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I finally learned enough old Norse to translate "Vertu heill, vinr minn," and would like to return the sentiment. :-) The suffixed "-tu" caused me a bit of puzzlement--I kept looking for it in the declension tables--but eventually it occurred to me to check for a pronoun. This helped with a translation I'm working on for Runic alphabet, so many thanks!

Norse is a facinating language--it inherits a lot of complications from common Germanic, and adds no small number of its own. Between ablaut, two forms of umlaut, and widespread consonant assimilation, I find that looking things up in the dictionary is a bit of an adventure! emk 12:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm equally fascinated by Old Norse, having studied two years of the language in college. The trouble is that my professors over-emphasized either (a) the common I-E roots of the language, or (b) the predominance of Icelandic sources. At one extreme, they taught as if Old Norse had nothing to do with the modern Scandinavian languages...but everything to do with Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. At the other extreme, someone might conclude that Old Norse spread from Iceland to the rest of Scandinavia, not in the other direction. (Not to mention ignoring a few centuries of sound change in Iceland itself...)

As for the greeting I left on your talk page, I apologize for confusing you with my grammar: your screenname here is a poetic Norse contraction of em ek "I am", so I thought a similar contraction wouldn't throw you off.

In any event, you seem like the kind of linguist I'd love to collaborate with; if you also think we'd work together well, please let me know. --Ingeborg S. Nordén 18:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be delighted to collaborate on linguistics projects! Would you mind if I contacted you via e-mail, so as to preserve a smidgen of anonymity on Wikipedia?

I-E is interesting, but it's an awfully broad context for Old Norse. There's enough Germanic languages to keep anyone busy for a long while without resorting to Sanskrit. (If you haven't seen Robinson's Old English and its Closest Relatives, I recommend it highly: It has two translation exercises for each of Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian, and Old High German. It's a great introductory textbook, and it has good sections on history, meter, philology, etc.)

Oh, and please don't worry about confusing me with Old Norse. I'm using Gordon's marvellous (but extremely challenging) Introduction to Old Norse as a textbook, so I'm used to digging around a bit. :-) And simpler material really helps me improve.

And thank you for pointing out "em-k". I hadn't noticed that! -emk 18:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Here's the translation I needed "-tu" for, by the way. If you happen to see any errors, please don't hesitate to point them out. :-) Thank you for inadvertently bumping me in the right direction! -emk 00:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jake and Tom

I must admit, I'm a little baffled as to what point this page serves. I figured it was used to get administrators' attention and get them blocked but there's obviously few people paying attention to that page. freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ 22:59, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

I should point out, "YNGVI IS A LOUSE" was not intended as vandalism, especially since it was on a talk page. Rather, it was a reference to the classic Harold Shea stories by L. Sprague de Camp, in particular The Roaring Trumpet, in which Harold travels to a dimension of Norse myth and is promptly imprisoned (along with Heimdall) by fire giants. Heimdall and Harold would soon lose track of time, except that every hour on the hour, the little man across from them goes to the door of his cell and screams "YNGVI IS A LOUSE!"... and then sits back down.

Try Googling for it. DS 20:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If the comment on that page had explained the context the way you did above, then I would not have mistaken the "louse" quote for vandalism. Please accept my apologies... --Ingeborg S. Nordén 22:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your apology is accepted, and I admit that I was being deliberately obscure (after all, de Camp never explained why the little man was doing that). I felt it would provide an amusing nod to any science-fiction fan who happened to read the talk page, that's all - in Larry Niven's novel Fallen Angels, for instance, a science-fiction fan runs a business called "Yngvi's Delousing Station". DS 02:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings

By any chance, are you Ingeborg Sviar who I met in California in 1995? Afalbrig 12:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean "Ingeborg Svea Nordén, then the answer is an emphatic yes. :-) Want to catch up with each other offsite? --Ingeborg S. Nordén 17:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, sounds good. I have a Yahoo mail account with the same userid. (Sorry I messed up the spelling!) Afalbrig 04:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sermon

The 'talk page' link seems to work fine on the articles that are tagged with the template; the link leads to the tagged article's talk page. for some reason the link on the template page itself leads to 'talk:sermon'. I don't know why that is or how to fix it. although, if it works fine on the tagged articles, it may not be a problem at all... Mike McGregor (Can) 17:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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