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TABLE
Of the Sounds of some Icelandic letters which occur in Old-North-
ern or Icelandic words in the following pages
IcELANMO. English.
a like
6 (Germ, o; Fr. eu) somewhat "
au nearly like 6
ei, ey,
6 (sometimes b)*
j.y
i,:y -
o
6 . "
u
"
11
J
h >t
— 5t
f, middle or end of a word "
except before 1, or n, "
g, k, before "
a weak vowel
except, g preceded by a vowel
11
nu
rn nearly like
"
"
"
"
"
"
:
gy, ky,
*jif* The final r of proper names, &e., has been mostly dropped,
it being only a mark of the nom. sing, of masculine nouns which is
lost in the oblique cases. When radical, it is represented by the
modern Icelandic ur, thus: NjorS, Baldur, for NjorSr, Baldr.
* Eepresented by je in modern Icelandic.
f Th, in this work, is mostly substituted for |), and sometimes d
for. S, especially in words that, have become modernized and
partially Anglicized, thus: Odin, Thor, for OSinn, |)6rr. Th re-
presents the sound of |>, and d takes the place of S in all the
modern languages—Icelandie excepted—derived from the Old-
Norse.
a