/lit/ - Literature

>>23339852
>Isn't the mutually intelligibility partly because of the conservative orthography
The texts they read in schools are heavily modernized. That being said, the reason I'm so adamant about this is because I'm sick and tired of the erroneous notion that Icelandic is some kind of "carbon copy" of Old Norse, because, apart from being misinformation, which is a pet peeve of mine, it also relies on not understanding what either language is, and there's faulty nomenclature at work.

>is that not true?
How am I supposed to know? Difficulty is always subjective, and there are many factors to consider. I would however imagine that it'd be as it was for me before I was interested in linguistics, ie clearly archaic, and perhaps deceptive (you think an old word means something it doesn't) but not bewilderingly so. On that note, my sister struggles something fierce with languages, while taking university writing classes, and has asked me to "translate" archaic texts for her before, that I would think you shouldn't struggle with at all. I did naught more than update the idiom in like 5 places and "unabbreviate" abbreviations. Perspectives matter too.

>>23341088
>These old fonts BTFO me.
That's pure sovl, though. I love reading facsimiles. A chad rejects digitized editions if there are scans available, or better, you can get a physical copy at some antiquarian book store.