"So, what is Old Norse like?" 

It’s a pleasure and an honor to be a guest on your channel. Thanks for the discussion!

What a crossover, now ya both have to go to Iceland and speak old norse on the streets

As a Norwegian, I can say that all Scandinavian children who learn English at school (which is compulsory) use this general procedure only the opposite way. There are so many similarities that "false friends" are what you should be most careful about (eg sky (cloud) -sky (himmel), at least until you reach a slightly higher level in English. The word "himmel" (sky) comes from German, but in Old Norse it was "himinn" which today has an English variant in the form of "heaven" (which has the same meaning as "himmel"). Pretty cool :)

Can't wait for the future video when Ranieri, Crawford and Roper have a discussion while Faraji is playing music in the background.

When I , as a Swede, learned English and later German in school cognates helped me out a lot. A few easy ones: Father, Mother, Bread, Dead Vater, Mutter, Brot, Tot Fader, Moder, Bröd, Död You could of course add in Danish, Dutch etc in the same patterns. Lots of similar cognates out there, and by studying them, you get a "feel" for quite a few specifics of the relevant languages.

I’m still waiting for a detailed channel like yours for Avestan. It’s a long term goal of mine to learn Sanskrit and Avestan, since I already have exposure to Ancient Greek and Latin.

Now if we can only find an Irish/Celtic scholar like you guys, the set of Ancient Language dudes will be complete.

My greatest RU-vid dream is for a channel like yours or like Luke's for the Hittite language

Awesome crossover that I didn’t know I wanted. Cool stuff!

I've noticed a pattern from english to old norse to swedish. We dropped the i it seems :) Stone- Stein- Sten Home- Heim- Hem Bone- Bein- Ben

The heck with Dr Strange multiverse, these are real cameos.

Placenames in England are hella fun in giving you a hint of who the people were who named it, or who the area was named for.... I live in Gillingham in Kent, which is near Rochester. -ham denotes a Saxon settlement (hame, heim). -chester, -cester, -caster is from castrum - there was a Roman fort in the area. The name of the county, Kent, is from the Celtic tribe of the Cantiaci, whose main settlement was in or near modern-day Canterbury. As you head north up the east coat, you start coming across words with a Viking background - the hills in the Lake District and a fair amount of the Yorkshire Dales are called fells, for example, and you might wade in a beck and swim in a tarn (if you're feeling brave enough, anyway!) and I am reliably informed that those few words still have cognates in Danish. I have absolutely no background in Old Norse or any Scandinavian language whatsoever. I just find etymology fun!

What a magnificent cross-over! More of it! (please)

"Say the English word with Old Norse grammar" -- Granted I was in Hamburg so that was in my favor, but that technique really helped to make myself understood when speaking to people. I'd only had 3 years of German in college but I was pleasantly surprised at how well I got along.

Your Old Norse instruction actually is very helpful for me studying Finnish thanks! It's amazing how much Norwegian I can work out just because I speak English

A pair of Cowboy Linguists... love both of you guys. Learn a lot from you guys.

There are actually courses in Old Swedish - my alma mater has had one for many years - but you have to know a modern Scandinavian language to be able to participate. Great video!

Guessing and extrapolating is how I became conversational in Italian in three days.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one.

But umlaut and subsequent vowel loss is what makes Old Norse so fun!

Interesting how the "textbook" dialect for Old Greek and Old Norse are the dialects with most literature in it, while the textbook dialect of Old French is not the Picardian dialect (most Old French literature is in Picardian, and if it is in other dialects it is often influenced by Picardian), but instead the textbook dialect is the dialect of the Île de France, which only later became the dominant dialect.

Its amazing how skilled you are in old norce, love and respect from Norway. I love your podcast.

Given the Old Norse root word "drifa" being the source for the M.E. word "drive", does "drift" also come from the same ancestral word?

I am forever grateful to you for sharing these videos and your work/knowledge with us! Thank you!!! Tack så jättemycket!!!!

Thanks for the great work man! Keep it up!!

So excited for this series!

This is a series I will be fallowing great insights

This collaboration is such a joy to watch, both vids have been amazing!! Never knew i needed this until it happened, now i wanna see this more often lol

Great to see you two in person together!

Thanks guys. A very imformative video that has changed how I view old norse.

Two of my favorite linguist channels doing a crossover?! Is it my birthday?

Following this guy since the ign video has been so much fun. Especially for ppl who like language. I wish u more success and growth!

It is great to see you together. It is magnificent to see two intelligent people just talking about something.

Fascinating. Thank you.

What a crossover, informative and entertaining to watch. Excited to watch more of this series' entries!

Having seen videos from both Luke and Jackson, with great content for anyone who loves languages, it's great to see you both together! English is such an unusual fusion of Germanic and Romance (Anglo-Saxon, Viking / Danes, Norman-French) with Latin and Greek thrown in for technical words, then melded together before (during) when it borrowed from all across the world...it's fascinating. How languages change over time. So much good stuff!

amazing discussion love it

I needed this today

Two of my favorite RU-vidrs starting off with an awkwardly scripted ad for the video I'm already watching. Perfect

I'm enjoying this series. 😊

OH YEAH, loved the crossover

I deeply respect your efforts to show case cross-discipline experts and deepen our understandung of our cultural, linguistic, and historical roots and how they interact

Danish glottal stop: where does it come from and how does it relate to old Norse? Tak!

BEST CROSSOVER EVER

Good rule there! "Don't start with what's easy. Start with what's frequent."

"I wish I knew how to quit you.."

I hope you were referring to your upcoming textbook!

Wow, those are some big hats 😅 Hei fra Norge.

Best collab ever

Damn, it is "Trukkur" in modern icelandic. Minute 13:10 or so. "Er þetta trukkurinn þinn" = "Is this your truck".

hey man, was wondering about the names of greenland and iceland; if the sagas or other source material mentions anything about why they were named what they are named. i've heard conflicting stories about either the "propaganda" of the names or maybe that the climate was different back then. anyway, just wondering if you know anything about it. thanks

I have a question, How do you say explore in old norse? And if it is regular or irregular and strong or weak

Best crossover ever ❤️

These two gentleman have me wanting to learn Latin and Icelandic haha 👏

Most ambitious crossover of the decade so far

Nice shoutout for Simon Roper!

Bear in mind this is from the perspective of a native English speaker. If your first language is, say Spanish it may be different. And much different if you're native Icelandic.

Awesome crossover! The indo-European language mothership buffet!

Yes, Just Yes ..🎉

One of the most ambitious crossovers ever

Great video! I've been reading a lot of 100 y.o. Norwegian-American bogmaal, and the English borrowings are common. That's no monkeybisnis!

Luke: "So what is 'Romani ite domum' in Old Norse, Jackson?" 😂

Ok, I didn’t expect this 😳

Two language nerds for the price of one! Bonus!

i have a question for both of you linguists, what is the closest living language family to the IE language family?

Dr Crawford, which Norse language should I learn Norwegian, Danish or Swedish that is closer to Old Norse? I know Icelandic is said to be the closest but I want to learn from either of these three. Also I know a little bit of German too.

Don’t rule out the Time Machine scenario, you never know😁

now we need a sanskrit/pali youtuber. I don;t know if anyone does that but would be cool.

These vids are such fun, thanks. Ease of ON vs Greek: Results may vary. Me, I found ON decently easy (for a reading knowledge) but I cheated since I'm basically native in both Swedish (for vocab) and German (for grammer, especially the firehose of subjunctives). Whereas Greek, no way baby. Been there, did that, backed away slowly.

2 handsome men in cowboy hats talking about ancient languages is my jam.

i follow both , Dr Jackson Crawford do you speak old english?

On a less serious note, "En truck"/"Trucken" is perfectly acceptable in modern Swedish. Albeit it's a modern loan word, and primarily referring to a "forklift" technically speaking, it can also be a slang word for an actual truck/lorry.

The best crossover

OMG, you both were here in Colorado, too?

So Luke is, like, staying in Colorado for a while?

Oh my, old norse is damn similar to german. Let me show you with some words in a "EN ‐ DE" template. Stone - Stein Home - Heim (or Heimat) Sword - Schwert Wind - Wind (W in german is pronounced like V in english)

You guys must be great fun at parties 😉

If you learn basics of any slavic language you will get a full image of the languages map. Old norsk have a lot of slavic structure, but in latinic it looks broken a little

Yep, thats how i read german, old norse, Norwegian, and most of the germanic languages. To me is just like English. In portuguese we also pronounce W as V, and some words in portuguese have germanic roots and borrowed from germanic.

I think runes are an essential study. They give a lot of clues to how things were pronounced different by looking at the spellings.

This reminds me of the Liga Romanica group, which I follow because I'm re-learning my Portuguese and they're a fun group. Speaking of which, would be fun to see you both with Simon Roper and speaking ancient languages together. Dang, makes me want to get out my Homeric Greek texts, but I don't need that headache right now as my mind isn't as good as both of your minds in working through Indo-European languages. I know just enough to understand what you all are describing and otherwise get myself into trouble thinking I could learn this stuff. :) Regardless, fun collaboration. Hope to see more.

The hardest thing for me was learning to make the different 'r' sounds.

How about if I already have German as a second language?

Luke: "There's ONE regular verb in Ancient Greek." Only a slight exaggeration! lol

Do you get comments from Icelanders about your pronunciation like the ones Luke gets from Greeks?

Why is it unlikely that I'm going to get in a time machine and go back to Iceland 900 years ago?

Languages are THE parallel I use to explain evolution to people. Sadly it has the same problem, we have "fossils" though we will never know exactly how it sounded. (actual fossils we don't know exactly how they looked) In both cases we have a skeleton and current comparitives.

Interesting take on the difficulty, as an Italian who studied both Latin and Greek but specialised in Old Icelandic, I have to say that the latter was a piece of cake to learn compared to Latin. Jackson refers only to morphological intricacies (which Latin doesn’t lack anyway), but he forgets the syntax: Old Icelandic sentences are more often than not quite linear and simple. Latin sentences can be insanely convoluted and have to be read over and over to work out what is referring to what. I would personally switch the order between Latin and Old Icelandic

this is my multiverse of madness

I already speak Danish, English, and German, how hard would it be for me?

" I cod a ball?"

👍

As a Swede, I understand more of old Norse than I thought I could 🤔😁

One day I want to understand how the f, the East Danish Dialects got so freaking messed up, but by then they might be long gone. All 3 dialects might be gone in 10-15 years.

Sounds like it is just more difficult than Polish.

Old Norse always sounds to me like English spoken by a German.

You live a bit south of me I believe, I would love the chance to come cowboy for you and maybe pick your brain on some old Norse from just the view of a Ole Wyoming cowboy

Even today the three very similar Scandinavian languages are to a large extent like parallel worlds of an older simplistic (Middle) English at their basic levels, so once you discover all these predictable correspondence patterns, you will find them everywhere. Fortunately all these deep similarities in much of the basic vocabulary and the most important grammatical features ( case free for nouns and their articles as in E. , same word order as in E. (mostly), similar formation of tenses, many parallel irregular verbs, verbs conjugated the same way for ALL grammatical persons, sing. & plur. like E. nearly has it ) make it fairly for Scandinavians to learn English - it's as if we already have a crude core English in our brains in advance and an intuitive understanding of the essentials of English, so that we just need to fill in the gaps - often without even having to think very much. 😂 D Skal vi [ve] gå [go] ud igen [ee-gain] for at finde min [meen] ko og min kalv nu [noo*]? E Shall (OE sceal!) we go out again (for) to find my cow and my calf now? D Hvad vil du ( orig. "thu") give mig [migh] / ham [hAm] / os / dem efter din tur [toor] til England? E What will you (thou) give me / him / os / them after your (thine) trip (tour) to England? D Jeg [yigh] kan høre [hoer-e] dem komme - se, de er [air] allerede her(e). Kom, lad os møde [moeth-e] dem ude i(n) gård-en! E I can hear them coming (come) - look (see), they ("dey") are already here. Come, let us meet them out in the yard! And so on and on 😉

So, I can actually learn Old Norse!?

Where is this nature? Can swap it from norge