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doctorcrimson t1_j4uaw2u wrote

Be cooler to find artifacts from the era of change over to more modern languages, like a Rosetta Stone for the Norse.

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Linden_Lea_01 t1_j4udgsz wrote

What do you mean? Modern Scandinavian languages are directly descended from Old Norse, and Old Norse texts can be read and understood very well.

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LateInTheAfternoon t1_j4uligh wrote

*fairly well. There are still a lot of conundrums. More to the point, the language here is not Old Norse but proto-Norse for which our knowledge is very limited partly due to the relatively few samples we have of the language, partly due to how much Old Norse has deviated from proto-Norse.

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