Re: Norreyna

Okay, gauging from this data:

> >Ef norreyna wa yenow goed fer Haelend, cwa's yenow goed fer mec!
And some of what you've said, I guess the following things:

* Front rounded vowels are derounded - evident in the lang's name
itself, "Norreyna", but also in "fer" (< ON "fyr", modern Swedish "för").

* OE spelling (with yogh converted to "y"); "þ" included?

* Some Anglicisms, such as "yenow"... though older ON did have "gnóg", it
generally lost the "g" in all dialects; derived words retain it, though,
even in Modern Icelandic, e.g. "gnægð" (~richness).

* Endings generally dropped.

* Don't know why you have "wa" and not "was" or "war"; what's "cwa's"? By
context, I know it means "it was", but how?

* I suppose it's pretty much ON word stems with mostly English syntax and
grammar, instead of the original inflections; do you retain Verb-Second?

Loving this idea,
Óskar

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