Frå Gutasaga [gothic-l]/Gutnisk - text sample.

[keth at ONLINE.NO]

The following sample of a Gutnish text have I typed up from
a book by Arne Torp: "Nordisk språk i nordisk og germansk
perspektiv." Novus forlag, Oslo 1998, isbn 82-7099-298-4,
123 pages. It has been written as a textbook for studies
in the Nordic languages at the University of Oslo, and Torp
is a well known teacher there, who has Nordic linguistics as
his specialty. The below sample is printed in his book on
page 44-45. The nice thing about this Gutnish text sample,
is that below it he has printed another sample of the same
text, but now normalized (or translated if you like) to
Icelandic. In that way it is possible to compare the two
languages word for word. I will send the Icelandicized
text in a mail that follows upon this one.


Frå Gutasaga (handskrift ca. 1350)
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Gutland hitti fyrsti maðr þann sum þjelvar hit. Þá var Gutland sá elvist at þet
dagum sank ok nátum var uppi. En þann maðr kvam fyrsti eldi á land, ok síðan
sank þet aldri. Þissi Þjelvar hafði ann sun sum hít Hafði. En Hafða kuna hít
Hvítastjerna; þaun tú byggðu fyrsti á Gutlandi. Fyrstu nát sum þaun saman
sváfu, þá droymdi henni draumbr, só sum þrír ormar várin slungnir saman í
barmi hennar, ok þýtti henni sum þair skriðin ýr barmi hennar. Þinna draum
segði hán firi Hafða, bónda sínum; hann rjað draum þinna só: "Allt ir baugum
bundit; bóland al þitta varða, ok fáum þría syni aiga." Þaim gaf hann namn
allum ófýdum: "Guti al Gutland aiga, Graipr al annar haita ok Gunfjaun þriði."
Þair skiptu síðan Gutlandi í þría þriðjunga só at Graipr, þann elzti, laut
norðasta
þriðjung ok Goti miðalþriðjung, en Gunfjaun, þann yngsti, laut sunnarsta.
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