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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I've already done the speech file- great fun: "Is that the biggest weapon you have? I've seen bigger."
Thanks for the Nordic name site - where did you find _that_? I'll look at that more carefully tonight, and maybe knock out another name list.
This could be another interesting page for your speech file:
Viking English
My search file for this, I guess there is a bunch of nice things under it:
Google Up Viking Women Names
Edit: Some goodies out of Viking English-
jabber (vb) To chatter. Scan. Formerly jaber and jable, weakened forms of gabber and gabble. Based on gab- as seen in the Ice gabba (to mock). See also gabble, above.
gabble (vb) To prattle. Scan => ME gabben (to lie, delude). Ice gabba (to mock) and gabb (mockery). Compare with Irish Gaelic cab, gob (the mouth). Allied to SE gobble and gape.
hale (adj) As in 'hale and hearty' (in good condition, healthy). Scan => ME heil. Ice heill, Dan heel, Swe hel.
hail (vb) To greet, to call out to. Scan => ME heilen. A verb coined from the Ice heill (see hail, above). Swe helse, Dan hilse (to greet). Associated with the Anglo-Saxon wes hál (realised in modern orthography as wassail), a greeting which literally means 'be whole'.
[ 28 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]