taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6108 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic
| Message 9 of 13 27 January 2010 at 1:42pm | IP Logged |
parasitius wrote:
taKen wrote:
Is anybody planning on watching it without subtitles? I know I am! :-) |
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haha funny guy... Well, unless you are planning to wait for the blueray release, I guess fellow theatergoers are going to be tickled to see you wear glasses with a strip of black electrical tape across the bottom -- or at least that's the only practical way I can think of to avoid seeing the (certainly present) subtitles in the theater. |
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I'll probably watch it on blueray without subtitles as soon as I'm really fluent in Icelandic and have had the time to pick up Old English. If I'm able to read Old Norse without any difficulty, I don't think it should be that much a problem to understand Old English. However, I've also heard that there might be some "Old Gaelic" involved here, so I'll just have to wait and see how doable this really is. I'll certainly watch it first in the theaters, which would make it easier to watch it again on blueray.
I'm just hoping Gibson doesn't hire a lot of Icelanders for this, that would be really stupid seeing as Icelandic has changed over the course of time. Old Norse "ek (I)", for example, turned into Icelandic "jeh (written ég).
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densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6123 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian*
| Message 10 of 13 28 January 2010 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
so, do you expect that Mr. Director would hire all Frisian native speakers instead ? :P
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taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6108 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic
| Message 11 of 13 30 January 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
densou wrote:
so, do you expect that Mr. Director would hire all Frisian native speakers instead ? :P |
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Haha, I don't know :p Today there are two ways of going about pronouncing Old Norse:
a) the Icelandic pronunciation
b) the reconstructed pronunciation; based on comparative linguistics
I guess the latter still applies to Old English. Frisian probably sounds a lot more like English used to, though--but I can't say that for certain.
Edited by taKen on 30 January 2010 at 6:09pm
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6113 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 12 of 13 30 January 2010 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
I really loved The Passion and Apocalypto so I'm sure I will like this one as well. Mel Gibson is the master at this genre.
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Sabrina VG Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5202 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Dutch, Flemish*, English, German, French Studies: Swedish, Welsh
| Message 13 of 13 05 May 2011 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
This would be indeed a wonderful movie to watch as I plan on studying Old Norse one day and it would be great to
have an entire film dedicated to it.
Does anybody know if this film is still on?
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