lars wrote:kiramdear wrote:I only know a couple of phrases in Norwegian: It's a little bit like Swedish, I think.
hei!
takk deg.
Det er kald i dag.
farvel!
Jeg elsker deg.
(this smile translates to any language)
Norwegian is more like danish actually, but close to swedish as well. "Takk deg" would be a direct translation of "Thank you". But we would just say "Takk".
"Jeg elsker deg" is spot on! Jeg elsker deg også!
We Write more like the Danish, but most dialect are more closer to swedish. before the plague(svartedauden/Blackdeath) all in Norway wrote on dialect(the few who could), but they died in 1349,so the danish took over and learned us to write danish. But the danish writing is far far away from how they speak danish now, they have most diffrent dialects in scandinavia, and are the smallest contry. In Norway we have two writing-language, Bokmål(like danish) and Nynorsk ( collected dialectes mixed to come closer to the norse heritage and away from the dansih) It is Danish who have change the most, Norwegian and swedish and Faroe-island(Færøyene) are pretty stable but develops, and Iclandic is closet to Norrønt like the vikings spoke but the develops too. In Shetland and Orkney the speak English with Norwegian dialects. But in the viking age, it was all just dialect, He comes from southwest of Norway(as me:) he is from North of Sweden, he is from the middle of Denmark and so on.. It was only to wich King you had to pay your taxes, and that is about were the boarder are now between Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
By the way: Ha ein rektig så trevelig kveld i haustmørket And take look at this band, Vikings anno 2008 uses Rickenbacker basses as their main axe.!.
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