[Sca-cooks] Faroese

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 09:58 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:

>Does this Faroese have some relationship to the Faroe Islands? A quick web 
>search confirms my thought that the Faroe Islands are north of Scotland, 
>but says the language there, Faroese, is descendant from old Norse. The 
>Norse having settled the islands in the 9th century. I didn't think old 
>Norse was from Germanic roots.

There is a nifty website here: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/faroese.htm 
with info on the islands, settlement, and language development. And yes 
Stefan, Old Norse is a Germanic language. There's info on the development 
of Old Norse (including the 'donsk tunga' that Faroese comes from) and 
other dialects here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_language

I'll let you browse- I've been chained to the sewing machine most of today 
and I'm too toasty to 'splain.

'Lainie
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