Old Norwegian language

Old Norse ( Nynorsk : gam (m) alnorsk; Bokmål : gammelnorsk, gammalnorsk ) is the first emergence of a Norwegian language from the Urnordisch and a collective term for the in Norway spoken between the 9th and 14th centuries or writing traditional dialects of about 800 to 1300. The western varieties of Old Norwegian are practically identical to Old Icelandic , as Iceland was settled from western Norway. Sometimes the term also comes up as a wrong translation for the English term for the Old Norse language , Old Norse .

In the Viking Age, the “older Norrønt” (Ur-Norse ) split into Old West Norse (Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian) and Old East Norse (Old Danish, Old Swedish, Old Gutnisch ); see Old West and Old East Norse .

literature

• Adolf Noreen: Old Norse Grammar I: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian grammar (phonology and inflection theory), taking into account traditional Norse. 1st edition Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1884. 4th, completely revised edition Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1923 = 5th, unchanged edition Niemeyer, Tübingen 1970 (collection of short grammars of Germanic dialects A 4).