Dept. of Music

[kaffy_r]

No, Not Stray Kids

Instead, it's this perfectly gorgeous piece from the anime "Made in Abyss." 

The entire soundtrack of all the series' seasons was created by Kevin Penkin, and I think he's brilliant. This, though; this is transcendent and always brings tears to my eyes. 

Also, when I was reading the Icelandic lyric, it suddenly occurred to me that Icelandic might be related linguistically to the language spoken in the Faroe Islands, (possibly because of elisi , who doesn't quite live rent free in my brain, but does have a guest bedroom there) My google-fu tells me that's the case. 

Anyhow, I'm tired and kind of burned out, so I'm heading to bed. Here's the music.

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[verdande_mi]

This is lovely :

Icelandic and Faroese are part of the same language family, both derives from Norse. I don’t speak either language, but Norwegian and I do understand some of it. Again, same language family.

[kaffy_r]

I'm glad that I wasn't completely out to lunch on this one!

[cmcmck]

Icelandic and Faroese are related and both are related to Orkney and Shetland Norn (now sadly a dead language) and to Old Norse as once spoken in parts of England, Ireland and Scotland.

The Lord's Prayer survives in Orkney Norn:

Orkney's Lord's Prayer

The only known text in Orkney Norn is The Lord's Prayer recorded in the late 1690's by James Wallace. First published in his "An Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700.":

Favor i ir i chimrie,
Helleur ir i nam thite,
gilla cosdum thite cumma,
veya thine mota vara gort
o yurn sinna gort i chimrie,
ga vus da on da dalight brow vora
Firgive vus sinna vora
sin vee Firgive sindara mutha vus,
lyv vus ye i tumtation,
min delivera vus fro olt ilt, Amen.
or On sa meteth vera.

[elisi]

The only known text in Orkney Norn is The Lord's Prayer
Ooooh that is fascinating. I can just about parse most (well some) of it from general Nordic language knowledge (Faroese & Danish).

This is the prayer in Faroese:

Faðir vár, Tú, sum ert í Himli.
Heilagt verði navn Títt.
Komi ríki Títt.
Verði vilji Tín, sum í Himli, so á jørð.
Gev okkum í dag okkara dagliga breyð.
Og fyrigev okkum syndir okkara, so sum vit eisini fyrigeva teimum, ið móti okkum synda.
Leið okkum ikki í freistingar, men frels okkum frá tí illa.
Tí at títt er ríkið, valdið og heiðurin um allar ævir.
Amen

[kaffy_r]

Now I'm going to try to find where these two prayers touch and where they diverge. Thanks; this is wonderful!

[kaffy_r]

I finally sat down and read the Faroese prayer, and was able to interpret one or two of the words ("us" and "our" for instance.) It was a lot harder for me to parse the Orkney Norn version of the prayer, but it was fun to try. I'll probably keep on trying. Heh.

[elisi]

I'm happy to help! Unless the fun is in the puzzling...

[kaffy_r]

Oh, thank you so much for teaching me more about language, and definitely about a language about which I knew nothing!

[elisi]

possibly because of elisi , who doesn't quite live rent free in my brain, but does have a guest bedroom there
*waves from inside your brain* *and from outside*

Icelandic might be related linguistically to the language spoken in the Faroe Islands,
Your google fu is correct. It sort of goes like this, from Most Like Old Norse, to Least:

Old Norse -> Icelandic -> Faroese -> Norwegian/Swedish (complicated, I'm not going to untangle now) -> Danish

Anyhow, I'm tired and kind of burned out, so I'm heading to bed. Here's the music.
Me too! Thank you for music. <3

[kaffy_r]

*waves from inside your brain*

*waves back*

As I said to cmcmck, above, I'm so glad to learn more about the languages around the UK, northern Europe and Scandinavia. And wow - the proximinity between Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese is fascinating.

[elisi]

We did a bit of Old Norse etc in school (I almost wrote college, but your college is uni, so high school for you. Age 16-18), and it was... not easy, but for a Faroese person it's possible to unpick. I think Icelandic people can read it a lot easier. A Danish person would be fully stumped.