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unusual facts about Scandinavian languages



Bertha Phillpotts

Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877–1932) was an English scholar in Scandinavian languages, literature, history, archaeology and anthropology.

Danish grammar

The definite article, -en, -et, -(e)ne, is postpositive as in the other Scandinavian languages save the West Jutlandic dialect of Danish, which has the prepositive æ (inflexible).

Like the other Scandinavian languages, Danish has a special inflection for the passive voice with the suffix -s, which is historically a reduced enclitic form of the reflexive pronoun sig ("himself, herself, itself, themselves"), e.g. han kalder sig "he calls himself" > han kaldes "he is called".

Fogwatt

Also Fywatt (Old form Fi-wid) from Norse, Scandinavian word meaning 'A wood in which there might have been a church or a cell'

Legenden om Ljusets rike

Legenden om Ljusets rike or Sagnet om Lysets rike in some Scandinavian language (in English The Legend of the Realm of Light; this novel not has been translated in English) is a set of fantasy novels by Norwegian-Swedish writer Margit Sandemo.


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Bornholmsk dialect

They originate from the old accusatives hann and hana still used in Icelandic, whereas the Scandinavian languages, apart from dialects of for example Swedish, normally use the old dative form for the oblic case (Danish ham, hende, Swedish honom, henne).

Charles Fritz Juengling

Other courses of study have included Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, Old and Middle High German, Old Norse (Old Icelandic), Gothic, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, history of the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages, Latin and Greek philology, Latin paleography, and Middle English paleography.

Stiftelsen

Foundation series, a famous science fiction series by Isaac Asimov known in Scandinavian languages as Stiftelseserien

Thorgil Sprakling

Florence of Worcester named his father as 'Ursius' (i.e. urso, Latin for bear, björn in Scandinavian languages) and Saxo Grammaticus tells the story that this Ursius/Björn was the son of a bear and a fair Swedish maiden.