[9] Heimskringla, Vol. I, Chap. LXXX.
[10] Ibid.
APPENDIX
ICELANDIC PRONUNCIATION
Accent:—The stress is always on the first syllable.
Vowels:—The vowel sounds vary considerably from the modern English and much resemble the old Anglo-Saxon. Some changes have taken place in these sounds since the classical period of the Icelandic literature which was in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The following key will assist the reader to pronounce the Icelandic terms in this volume.
| a | is pronounced | like | A | in | far. |
| á | ” | ” | OU | ” | loud. |
| e | ” | ” | E | ” | let. |
| é | ” | ” | YE | ” | yellow. |
| i | ” | ” | EE | ” | meek. |
| í | ” | ” | I | ” | pit. |
| o | ” | ” | OA | ” | road. |
| ö | ” | ” | U | ” | murmur. |
| ý | ” | ” | EE | ” | meet. |
| ae | ” | ” | I | ” | prize. |
| au | ” | ” | OI | ” | coin. |
| ey | ” | ” | AY | ” | hay. |
| ei | ” | ” | AY | ” | hay. |
Consonants:—The alphabet was taken from the Latin with the addition of two characters Þ thorn and ð ith. The two have the sound of TH in thin; the first is initial and the second may be in any syllable if it is not initial, as ð in Seyðisfjörðr, pronounced say-this-fur-thur.