[oxfordgamers] Re: game on the 16th - Nico's character

old norse, and old icelandic are virtually the same,
german is the closest to old norse and after that old
english, incidently that's also the chronology of
those languages, english comes from german, german
comes from old norse. 
speaking latin would be tough in that time, latin was
almost exlusively known by clergy, you can't have the
masses reading sacred text on their own you know.
hope that's helpful,
dave
--- Mike Chambers <mikethequick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> --- "Bolenbaugh, Tom" <TBolenbaugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> > I plan on being a merchant. 
> 
> "Moichandizing!!!"
> 
>  I'll speak and read
> > more than one language,
> > probably Latin, Greek and Arabic.  How close is
> > Saxon to our native tounge?
> 
> Not sure on this one. All I've ever read refers to
> period Scandanavian language as "Old Norse" and most
> closely resembles modern Icelandic dialect. There's
> probably a fair amount of English (whatever people
> in
> England were speaking) being used as well.
> 
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