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 No.4602

Is there a video or recording that has the correct pronunciations for the Anglo-Saxon gods and goddesses?

I've seen a written guide before but to be honest I have a hard time simply looking at some words and names and pronouncing them. I'm currently reading "Path to the Gods" by Swain Wodening and it would be nice to be saying the right name in my head as I read.

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 No.4634

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is that you need to learn about the Great Vowel Shift and decide whether or not you prefer historical pronunciations or you prefer modern pronunciations, as we would (presumably) use had there been an unbroken line from the Saxon tradition to modern times. But in either case you will have to rely on historical linguistics to reconstruct the pronunciations of the names. Because in the end, there were no tape recorders during Anglo-Saxon times, and most everything we know about their phonetic system comes from reconstruction based on language evolution and from comparison between the oldest Latin transcriptions of Old English and surviving Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc transcriptions in comparison to Continental and Scandinavian runic inscriptions.

So the other short answer is that it's a really hard problem, but you're a native speaker of a Germanic language so you're fully qualified to sort it out for yourself.



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