Re: The Vikings

In article <4480b287$0$240$dbd45001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Alaca <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> wrote:
Morten Reistad wrote: news:mjaq5e.8r92.ln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <1148427108.582231.49190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
manxman <manxman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've started a new website on the net about the Vikings.

It is still in development but I intend it to be comprehensive. It's
well worth a look even though its obviously not finished.

The URL http://home.exetel.com.au/manxman/vikings/the_vikings

And contains factual errors on the first page I read.

[Norway/Sweden/Denmark]
Each of these areas also had there own language from which the modern
languages of this area are derived and being descended from many old
Norse dialects.

No, Norse was a common language throughout the entire Viking Age
(Usually includes ca 792-1260). The diverging of the languages started
_after_ the plague of 1349pp.

I doubt that.

Then show some evidence. All available Norse literature (and the
literature is pretty voluminous, but nothing comparable to the
greco-roman world) is of one, single language not too far from modern
Icelandic.

The culture became literate with Christianity in the 11th
century, and had nearly 400 years before the civilisation was
decimated by the plague.

Dialect differences were smaller then they are in the modern
languages. A person from Iceland could speak easily with a person
from Gotland.

-- mrr


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