{"id":1422,"date":"2009-08-05T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2009-08-05T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T07:31:32","slug":"vikingar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/vikingar\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00edk\u00edngar!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When we were in Largs recently (it’s a nice place to go for an ice cream), we passed the local Viking museum, which is there to celebrate the r\u00f4le of the Vikings in Scotland.<\/p>\n

However, when I noticed the sign over the front door, I nearly choked on my lovely ice cream.<\/p>\n

They had written “V\u00edk\u00edngar!” instead of “V\u00edkingar!”.<\/p>\n

Having studied Old Norse in my first term at university, I know a bit about that language.<\/p>\n

The word v\u00edkingr<\/i> is a derivation from v\u00edk<\/i> “creek, sea inlet, bay” using the -ingr<\/i> suffix which is etymologically the same as English -ing<\/i>. The -ar<\/i> ending is simply the nominative plural. That is, v\u00edkingar<\/i> can roughly be translated as “creekings”.<\/p>\n

Old Norse generally allows the full set of vowels only in the first syllable of a word (excepting compounds), whereas all subsequent syllables are restricted to the three vowels ‘a’ \/a\/, ‘i’ \/?\/ and ‘u’ \/?\/. Even if hadn’t known the origin of this particular word, I would therefore find it odd to encounter an ‘\u00ed’ \/i?\/ in the second syllable (it would only be plausible if this word was a compound: *v\u00ed-k\u00edngar<\/i>).<\/p>\n

You might argue that this is fairly specialised knowledge, but surely this museum should employ people who know such things if they’re serious about understanding the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vikingar Originally uploaded by PhylB When we were in Largs recently (it’s a nice place to go for an ice cream), we passed the local Viking museum, which is there to celebrate the r\u00f4le of the Vikings in Scotland. However, when I noticed the sign over the front door, I nearly choked on my lovely ice cream. They had written “V\u00edk\u00edngar!” instead of “V\u00edkingar!”. Having studied Old Norse in my first term at university, I know a bit about that language. The word v\u00edkingr is a derivation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}