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FALDER KLOCK& NIDER I HOVOf MANNI, BOTI SOPCN MARCHUM See also:PRIM, EN HAN FAR BANE AF—4 would in contemporary Icelandic be- felIr klukka nilr f h2fuc manni, bti sokn merkum prim, of harm fdr Liana af. These few words exhibit instances of the following innovations in See also:Swedish:—d is inserted between 11 (nn) and a following r (as b between m and 1, r, and p between m and t, n—as hambrar, Icel. hamrar, hammers, sampt, Icel. samt, together with) ; an See also:auxiliary vowel is inserted between final r and a preceding consonant; a in terminations is often changed into a?; a u in the final syllable causes no See also:change of a preceding a; the See also:present tense takes the vowel of the See also:infinitive (and the preterite subjunctive that of preterite indicative plural). Other important changes, appearing at the same See also:time, but probably, partly at least, of a somewhat older date, are the following:—all diphthongs are contracted (as ¢gha, Icel. auga, See also:eye; eir¢ma, Icel. dreyma, to See also:dream; sten, Icel. steinn, stone—traces of which we find as See also:early as the 12th See also:century) ; e has passed into i-e (as knie, Icel. kne, See also:knee) ; is into See also:ice, as in Eastern See also:Norwegian (as hicerta, Icel. hiarta, See also:heart) ; iu into y after r, and a consonant +1 (as flygha, Icel. fudge, to See also:fly) ; the forms of the three persons singular of verbs have assimilated (except in the so-called strong preterite); the 2nd See also:person plural ends in -in for -i8, -ua. The transition to the 14th century is marked by important changes: See also:short y, e.g., passed into 0 in many positions (as Or for dyr, See also:door, &c.); there appeared a so-called See also:law of vowel See also:balance, according to which the vowels i and u are always found in terminations after a short See also:root syllable, and—at least when no consonant follows—e and o after a See also:long one (as Gupi, to See also:God, til salu, for See also:sale, but i garpe, in the See also:court, for visso, assuredly), and the forms of the See also:dative and the See also:accusative of See also:pro-nouns gradually became the same. The number of borrowed words is as yet very limited, and is chiefly confined to ecclesiastical words of Latin and See also:Greek origin, introduced along with See also:Christianity (as kors, See also:cross, bref, See also:epistle, skole, school, prwster, See also:priest, almOsa, See also:alms). At the See also:middle of the 14th century the See also:literary See also:language undergoes a remarkable reform, developing at the same time to a " rikssprdk," a See also:uniform language, See also:common to a certain degree to the whole See also:country. The See also:chief characteristics of this later Old Swedish (1375–1526) are the following: the long a has passed into 8 (that is, an open o), and io (except before g, k, rdh, rt) into iO (as si¢, See also:sea, See also:lake), g and k (sk) before palatal vowels are softened into dj and tj (stj); k and t in unaccented syllables often pass into gh, dh (as Swerighe for Swerike, See also:Sweden, litedh for licit, a little) ; the articles than (or hin), the, and (a little later) en, a, come into use; the dual pronouns vanish; the relative cer, that, is changed with sum; the present participle takes a secondary See also:form in -s (as gangandis, beside gangande, going). A little later the following changes appear : ashort vowel is lengthened before a single consonant, first when the consonant belongs to the same syllable (as See also:hat, hate), afterwards also when it belongs to the following one (as hate, to hate) ; an auxiliary vowel is inserted between 1 or n and a preceding consonant (as gavel, gable, 0ken, See also:desert) ; short i often passes into e (as leva, to live) ; th passes into t; a new conjugation is formed which has no infinitive termination, but doubles the sign of the preterite (as bO, bodde, See also:bolt, to dwell, dwelt, dwelt). Owing to the See also:political and commercial See also:state of the country the language at this See also:period is deluged with borrowed words of See also:Low See also:German origin, mostly social and See also:industrial terms, such as the See also:great number of verbs in -era (e.g. hantera, to 3 In memory of Wamod these See also:runes stand; and Warinn, his See also:father, wrote them in memory of his son (by destiny) condemned to See also:death. 4 If the See also:bell fall down on anybody's See also:head, the See also:parish pays a See also:fine of three marks should he See also:die from it. for judging of the dialectical varieties exists in the Norwegian charters, carefully and accurately edited by the Norwegian scholars C. See also:Lange (d. 1861), C. R. Unger (d. 1897) and H. J. Huitfeldt-Kaas.2 Swedish* and Blekinge) and certain parts of western Sweden; (2) extensive maritime tracts of See also:Finland, See also:Esthonia and See also:Livonia, with their surrounding islands; and (3) certain places in See also:Russia, where Swedish was spoken for a considerable time. The See also:oldest but also the most meagre See also:sources of our knowledge of Old Swedish are those words, almost exclusively See also:personal names (nearly one See also:hundred), which were introduced into the See also:Russian language at the See also:foundation of the Russian See also:realm by Swedes (in 862), and which are for the most See also:part somewhat influenced by Russian phonetic See also:laws, preserved in two Russian documents of the years 911 and 944 as Igor. (O. Sw. Ingvar), Rurik (HrOrikr), See also:Oleg (Hialge, secondary form of Helge), See also:Olga (Hialga, Helga). Of about the same date, but of an infinitely greater importance, are the runic See also:inscriptions, amounting in number to about two thousand, which have been found cut on stones (rarely See also:wood, See also:metal or other materials) almost all over Sweden, though they occur most frequently (about See also:half of the See also:total number) in the See also:province of Uppland, next to which come SOdermanland, with nearly three hundred inscriptions, then ostergotland, and See also:Gotland, with more than two hundred each. For the most part they occur on tombstones or monuments in memory of deceased relatives; rarely they are public notices. Their form is often metrical, in part at least. Most of them are See also:anonymous, in so far that we do not know the name of the engraver, though, as a See also:rule, the name of the See also:man who ordered them is recorded. Of the engravers named, about seventy in number, the three most productive are Ubir, See also:Bali and Asmundr Karasun, all three principally working in Upland; the first-mentioned name is signed on nearly eighty, the others on about See also:thirty and See also:forty stones respectively. These inscriptions vary very much in See also:age, belonging to all centuries of Old Swedish, but by far the greatest number of them date from the 11th and 12th centuries. From See also:heathen times—as well as from the last two centuries of the middle ages—we have comparatively few. The oldest are perhaps the Ingelstad inscription in Ostergotland, the Sparlosa inscription in Vastergotland, and the Gursten one found in the See also:north of Smaland, all probably,. from the end of the 9th century. The rune-See also: The inscriptions of the following centuries are of far less philological See also:interest, because after the 13th century there exists another and more fruitful source for Old Swedish, viz. a literature in the proper sense of the word. Of runic literature nothing has been preserved to our days. The literature in the Latin letters is both in quality and extent incomparably inferior to Old Icelandic, though it, at least in quantity, considerably surpasses Old Norwegian. In age, however, it is inferior to both of them, beginning only in the 13th century. The oldest of the extant See also:manuscripts is a fragment of the Older Vastgotalaw, written about the year 1250. A See also:complete codex (See also:Cod. Holm. B 59) of the same law dates from about 1285, and is philologically of the greatest importance. Of other See also:works of value from a philological point of view we only mention a codex of the Sodermannalaw (Cod. Holm. B 53) of about 1325, a codex of the Upplandslaw (Cod. Ups. 12), the two manuscripts containing a collection of legends generally named Cod. Bureanus (written a little after 1350) and Cod. Bildstenianus (between 1420 and 1450), and the great Oxenstiernian See also:manuscript, which consists chiefly of a collection of legends written for the most part in 1385. The very numerous Old Swedish charters, from 1343 downwards, are also of great importance.2 1 Diplomatarium Norvegicum (1847, sqq.), 16 vols. have appeared. 2 The Old Swedish monuments are foi the most part published in the following collections: Svenska fornskriftsallskapets samlingar, 132 parts (1844–1907); C. J. Schlyter, Samling af Sveriges gamla lager, vols. i.-vii. and x.-xii. (1827–1869); Svenskt Diplomatarium (6 vols., 1829—1878, new See also:series, 4 vols., 1875-1904). handle), the substantives in -eri (r¢veri, See also:robbery), -inna (f¢rstinna, princess), -het (fromhet, piety), be- (betala, to pay), and a great many others (klen, weak, smaka, to See also:taste, graver, big, pung, See also:purse, tukt, discipline, bruka, to use, twist, See also:quarrel, st¢vel, See also:boot, arbeta, to See also:work, frokoster, lunch, &c.). Owing to the political circumstances, we find towards the end of the period a very powerful Danish See also:influence, which extends also to See also:phonetics and See also:etymology, so that, for example, nearly all the terminal vowels are supplanted by the uniform Danish e, the hard consonants p, t, k by b, d, g as in Danish, the second person plural of the imperative ends in -er, besides -en (as tagher, for taghen, older See also:takin). Dialectical See also:differences incontestably occur in the runic inscriptions as well as in the literature; in the former, however, most of them Dialeces. are hidden from our eyes by the See also:character of the See also:writing, which is, from a phonetic point of view, highly unsatisfactory, indicating the most different sounds by the same sign (for example, o, u, y and o are denoted by one and the same rune) ; in the literature again they are reduced to a minimum by the awakening See also:desire to form a uniform literary language for the whole country, and by the literary productivity„ and consequent predominant influence of certain provinces (as Ostergotland). Only one distinct Fomgut- See also:dialect has been handed down to us, that of the See also:island of ntska. Gotland, which differs so essentially from the Old Swedish of the mainland that it has with See also:good See also:reason been characterized, under the name Forngutniska, as in a certain sense a See also:separate language. Materials for its study are very abundant: on one See also:hand we possess more than two hundred runic inscriptions, among them a very remarkable one from the beginning of the 13th century, counting upwards of four hundred runes, cut on a See also:font (now in Aakirkeby on the island of See also:Bornholm), and representing the See also:life of See also:Christ in a series of pictures and words; on the other hand a literature has been preserved consisting of a runic See also:calendar from 1328, the law of the island (the oldest manuscript is from about 1350), a piece of traditional history and a gild statue. The language is distinguished from the Old Swedish of the mainland especially by the following characteristics:—the old diphthongs are preserved (e.g. auga, eye, droyma, to dream, stain, stone), and a triphthong has arisen by the change of iu into iau (as fliauga, to fly) ; the long vowels a; and 0 have passed into a and 9 (as See also:mela, to speak, dyma, to deem) ; short o rarely occurs except before r, being in other positions changed into u; .w is dropped before r (as raijpi, wrath) ; the genitive singular of feminines in -a ends in -ur for -u (as kirkiur, of the church). Owing to the entire See also:absence of documentary See also:evidence it is impossible to determine how far the dialects See also:east of the Baltic, which no doubt had a separate individuality, differed from the See also:mother-See also:tongue. The first to pay See also:attention to the study of Old Swedish 1 was the Swedish savant J. Buraeus (d. 1652), who by several works (from The study 1599 onwards) called attention to and excited a lively of Old interest in the runic monuments, and, by his edition Swedish. (1634) of the excellent Old Swedish work Um Styrilse Kununga ok H¢fpinga, in Old Swedish literature also. His no longer extant Specimen Primariae Linguae Scantzianae (1636) gave but a very short See also:review of Old Swedish inflections, but is remarkable as the first See also:essay of its See also:kind, and is perhaps the oldest See also:attempt in See also:modern times at a grammatical treatment of any old Germanic language. The study of runes was very popular in the 17th century; M. See also:Celsius (d. 1679) deciphered the " staffless " runes and J. Hadorph (d. 1693), who also did good work in editing Old Swedish texts, copied more than a thousand runic inscriptions, published by J. Goransson as Bautil (1750). During the 18th century, again, Old Swedish was almost completely neglected; but in the 19th century the study of runes was well represented b the collection (Runurkunder, 1833) of the Swede Liljegren (d. 1837) and by the Norwegian S. See also:Bugge's ingenious See also:interpretation and grammatical treatment of some of the most remarkable inscriptions, especially that of Rok. Old Swedish literature has also been made the See also:object of grammatical researches. A first outline of a history of the Swedish language is to be found in the work of N. M. Petersen (1830), and a See also:scheme of an Old Swedish See also:grammar in P. A. Munch's essay, Fornswenskans och Fornnorskans sprdkbyggnad (1849); but Old Swedish grammar was never treated as an See also:independent See also:branch of See also:science until the See also:appearance of J. E. Rydqvist's (d. 1877) monumental work Svenska sprdkets lagar (in 6 vols., 1850-1883), which was followed in Sweden by a whole literature on the same subject. Thus phonetics, which were comparatively neglected by Rydqvist, have been investigated with great success, especially by L. F. Laffler and A. See also:Kock; while the other parts of grammar have been treated of above all by K. F Soderwall. His See also:principal work, Ordbok ofver Svenska medeltidssprdket (1884 sq.), gives the See also:list of words in the later Old Swedish language, and—taken along with the Ordbok till samlingen of Sveriges gamla lagar (1877), by C. J. Schlyter, the well-known editor of Old Swedish texts, which contains the vocabulary of the oldest literature—it worthily meets the demand for an Old Swedish See also:dictionary. An Old Swedish grammar, answering the requirements of modern philology, is edited by A. Noreen? ' See A. Noreen, " Apercu de l'histoire de la science linguistique suedoise " (Le Museon, ii., 1883). 2 Altschwedische Grammatik (1897-1904). 2. Modern Swedish.—The first complete See also:translation of the See also:Bible, edited in 1541 by the See also:brothers Olaus and See also:Laurentius Petri, and generally called the Bible of Gustavus I., may be regarded as the earliest important See also:monument of this. Owing to Modem religious and political circumstances, and to the learned Swedish. influence of See also:humanism, theological and historico-political works preponderate in the Swedish literature of the following period, which therefore affords but scanty material for philological See also:research. It is not until the middle of the 17th century that Swedish literature adequately exemplifies the language, for at that period literature first began to be cultivated as a fine See also:art, and its principal representatives, such as Stiernhielm, See also:Columbus and Spegel, were in reality the first to study it as a means of expression and to develop its resources. Amongst the authors of the 18th century we have to mention in the first See also:place Dalin, who was to some extent the creator of the See also:prose See also:style of that See also:epoch; while of the end of the century See also:Kellgren and See also:Bellman are the most noteworthy examples, representing the higher and the more See also:familiar style of See also:poetry respectively. The language of the 19th century, or at any See also:rate of the middle of it, is best represented in the works of Wallin and See also:Tegner, which, on See also:account of their enormous circulation, have had a greater influence than those of any other authors. As to the language itself the earliest Modern Swedish texts, as Gustavus I.'s Bible, differ considerably from the latest Old Swedish ones." We find a decided tendency to exterminate Form Danisms and reintroduce native and partially antiquated of the forms. At the same time there appear several traces of a language. later state of the language: all genitives (singular and plural), e.g., end in -s, which in earlier times was the proper ending of certain declensions only. In spite of the archaistic efforts of many writers, both in forms and in vocabulary, the language nevertheless underwent rapid changes during the 16th and 17th centuries. Thus sj and stj (See also:original as well as derived from sk before a palatal vowel) assimilate into a See also:simple sh- See also:sound; dj (original as well as derived from g before a palatal vowel), at least at the end of the 17th century, dropped its d-sound (compare such spellings as diufwer, giattar, envoge, for jufver, udder, jattar, giants, envoye, See also:envoy); hj passes into j (such spellings are found as jort for hjort, See also:hart, and hjarpe for jarpe, See also:hazel See also:grouse) ; b and p inserted in such words as himblar, heavens, hambrar, hammers, jam n, even,.sampt, together with, are dropped; the first person plural of the verb takes the form of the third person (as vi fara, foro, for vi farom, foram, we go, went) ; by the See also:side of the pronoun I, you, there arises a secondary form Ni, in full use in the spoken language about 1650; the See also:adjective gradually loses all the See also:case-inflections; in substantives the nominative, dative and accusative take the same form as early as the middle of the 17th century; in the declension with suffixed See also:article the old method of expressing number and case both in the substantive and the article is changed, so that the substantive alone takes the number-inflection and the article alone the case-ending; neuter substantives ending in a vowel, which previously had no plural ending, take the plural ending -n, some -er—as be.-n, bees, bageri-er, bakeries. About the year 1700 the Old Swedish inflection may, in See also:general, be considered as almost completely given up, although a work of such importance in the history of the language as See also: A vigorous reform, slowly but firmly carried on almost uniformly during all periods of the Swedish language, is the throwing back of the principal See also:accent to the beginning of the word in cases where previously it stood nearer the end, a tendency that is characteristic of all the Scandinavian See also:languages, but no doubt especially of Swedish. In the See also:primitive Scandinavian age the accent was removed in most simple words; the originally accented syllable, however, preserved a musically high See also:pitch and stress. Thus there arose two essentially different accentuations—the one, with unaccentuated final syllable, as in Icel. stigr (Gr. orhIXees), See also:thou goest, the See also:comparative betre (cf. Gr. Magda from Taxi's), better, the other, with secondary stress and high pitch on the final, as in Icel. pret. pplur. buffo (Sans. bubudhi s), we bade, part. pret. bitenn (Sans. bhinncis), bitten. The same change afterwards took place in those See also:compound words that had the principal accent on the second member, so that such contrasts as German urteil and erteilen were gradually brought into conformity with the former accentuation. At the present See also:day it is quite exceptionally (and chiefly in borrowed words of later date) that the principal accent in Swedish is on any other syllable than the first, as in lek6.men, See also:body, valsigna, to bless. The scientific study of Modern Swedish' dates from Sweden's glorious epoch, the last half of the 17th century. The first See also:regular The study Swedish grammar was written in 1684 (not edited till of Modern 1884) in Latin by E. Aurivillius; the first in Swedish is Swedish. by N. Tiallman (1696). But little, however, of value was produced before the great work of Rydqvist mentioned above, which, although chiefly dealing with the old language, throws a See also:flood of See also:light on the modern also. Among the works of See also:late years we must See also:call See also:special attention to the researches into the history of the language by K. F. Soderwall, F. A. Tamm, A. Kock and E. Hellquist. The grammar of the modern language is, as regards certain parts, treated in a praiseworthy manner by, among others, J. A. Auren, J. A. Lyttkens and F. A. Wulff (in several common works), E. Tegner, G. Cederschiold and F. A. Tamm (d. 1905). A good though short account of phonology and inflections is given in H. Sweet's essay on " Sounds and Forms of Spoken Swedish " (Trans. Phil. See also:Soc., 1877-1879). A comprehensive and detailed grammar (Vdrt sprdk) has been edited (since 1903) by A. Noreen. Attempts to construct a dictionary were made in the 16th century, the earliest being the anonymous Variarum serum vocabula cum See also:Sueca interpretatione, in 1538, and the Synonymorum libellus by Elaus Petri Helsingius, in 1587, both of which, however, followed German originals. The first regular dictionary is by H. Spegel, 1712; and in 1769 J. Ihre (d. 1780), probably the greatest philological genius of Sweden, published his Glossarium Suiogoticum, which still remains one of the most copious Swedish dictionaries in existence. In the 19th century the diligent lexicographer A. F. Dalin published a useful work. The Swedish See also:Academy has been editing (since 1893) a gigantic dictionary on about the same See also:plan as Dr See also: DANISH, like Swedish, is divided into the two great Pre-and See also:Post-Reformation epochs of Old and Modern Danish. 1. Old Danish.—The territory of Old Danish included not only the present See also:Denmark, but also the See also:southern Swedish provinces of Old Halland, Slane and Blekinge, the whole of See also:Schleswig, Danish. and. as stated above, for a short period also a great part of See also:England, and parts of See also:Normandy. The oldest monuments of the language are runic inscriptions, altogether about 225 in number? The oldest of then' go as far back as to the beginning of the 9th century, the Snoldelev-stone, for instance, on Sealand, and the Flemlhse-stone on Funen. From about the year 900 date the very long inscriptions of Tryggevaelde (See also:Zealand) and Glavendrup (Funen) ; from the loth century we have the stones of Jaellinge (See also:Jutland), in memory of two of the oldest See also:historical See also:kings of Denmark (Gorm and See also:Harald); while from about t000 we have a stone at Dannevirke (Schleswig), raised by the conqueror of England, Sven Tiuguskaegg. See also:Relics of about the same age are the words that were introduced by the Danes into English, the oldest of which date from the end of the 9th century, the time of the first Danish See also:settlement in England; most of these are to be found in.the early English work Ormulum.' No Danish literature arose before the 13th century. The oldest manuscript that has come down to us dates from the end of that century, written in runes and containing the law of Slane. From about the year 1300 we possess a manuscript written in Latin characters and containing the so-called Valdemar's and Erik's laws of Zealand, the Flensborg manuscript of the law of Jutland, and a manuscript of the municipal laws of Flensborg. These three manuscripts represent three different dialects—that, namely, of Slane, ' See A. Noreen, " Apergu," &c.; Vdrt sprdk, i. 181 sqq. 2 See L. F. A. Wimmer, De Danske runemindesmcerker (4 vols., 1895-1905). ' See E. Brate, " Nordische Lehnworter See also:im Ormulum " (See also:Paul Braune's Beitrdge, x., 1884) ; E. Bjorkman, Scandinavian See also:Loan-word: in Middle English (2 vols., 1900, 1902) in " Studien zur englischen Philologie," vii. and xi. Also OttM.297 Halland and Blekinge, that of Zealand and the other islands, and that of Jutland and Schleswig. There existed no uniform literary language in the Old Danish period, although some of the Dialects. most important works of the 15th century, such as the clerk See also:Michael's Poems (since 1496) and the Rhymed See also:Chronicle (the first See also:book printed in Danish, in 1495), on account of their excellent diction, contributed materially to the final preponderance of their dialect, that of Zealand, towards the Reformation. As to the form of the language, it hardly differs at all during the period between A.D. 800 and 1200 from Old Swedish. It is only in the oldest literature that we can trace any marked differ- Form ences; these are not very important, and are generally ofi e attributable to the fact that Danish underwent a little laaguage. earlier the same changes that afterwards took place in Swedish (e.g. h in hw and hj in Danish was See also:mute as early as the end of the 14th century. The laws referred to above only agree in differing from the Swedish laws in the following points: the nominative already takes the form of the accusative (as kalf, See also:calf, but Old Sw, nom. kalver, See also:ace. kalf) ; the second person plural ends in -ce (as k¢pce, but Old Sw. k¢pin, you buy); in the subjunctive no differences are expressed between persons and See also:numbers. Among them-selves, on the contrary, they show considerable differences; the law of Slane most nearly corresponds with the Swedish laws, those of Zealand keep the middle place, while the law of Jutland exhibits the most distinctive individuality. The Slane law, e.g., retains the vowels a, i, u in terminations, which otherwise in Danish have become uniformly ce; the same law inserts b and d between certain consonants (like Old Sw.), has preserved the dative, and in the present tense takes the vowel of the infinitive; the law of Jutland, again, does not insert b and d, and has dropped the dative, while the present tense (undergoing an Umlaut) has by no means always accepted the vowel of the infinitive; in all three characteristics the laws of Zealand fluctuate. After 1350 we meet an essentially altered language, in which we must first See also:note the change of k, p, t after a vowel into g, b, d (as tag, roof, See also:lobe, to run, cede, to eat); th passes into t (as ting, thing), gh into w (as law for lagh, gild) or into i (as vei for wcgh, way); ld, nd are pronounced like ii, nn; s is the general genitive ending in singular and plural, &c. The vocabulary, which in earlier times only borrowed a few, and those mostly ecclesiastical, words, is now—chiefly owing to the predominant influence of the See also:Haase towns—inundated by German words, such as those beginning with be-, bi-, ge-, for- and and-, and ending in -lied, and a great number of others, as blive, to become, she, to happen, fri, See also:free, krig, war, buxer, pantaloons, ganske, quite, &c. An Old Danish grammar is still wanting, and the preparatory studies which exist are, although excellent, but few in number, being chiefly essays by the Danes K. J. Lyngby and Cram-L. F. A. Wimmer. N. M. Petersen's See also:treatise Del Danske, madcal Norske, og Svenske sprogs historie, vol. i. (1829), one of the treatment. first works that paid any attention to Old Danish, which till then had been completely neglected, is now surpassed by V. Dahlerup's Geschichte der ddnsschen Sprache (1904). A dictionary on a large See also:scale covering the whole of Old Danish literature, except the very oldest, by O. Kalkar, has been in course of publication since 1881; older and smaller is C. Molbech's Dansk Glossarium (1857-1866). 2. Modern Danisk.—The first important monument of this is the translation of the Bible, by C. See also:Pedersen, Peder See also:Palladius and others, the so-called See also:Christian III.'s Bible (155o), famous for the Modrn unique purity and excellence of its language, the dialect Danish of Zealand, then incontestably promoted to be the Ian- sourcm guage of the See also:kingdom. The first See also:secular work deserving of the same praise is Vedel's translation of Saxo (1575). The succeeding period until 1750 offers but few works in really good Danish; as perfectly classical, however, we have to mention the so-called Christian V.'s Law of Denmark (1683). For the See also:rest, humanism has stamped a highly Latin-French character on the literature, striking even in the works of the principal writer of this period, See also:Holberg. But about the year 1750 there begins a new See also:movement, characterized by a reaction against the language of the preceding period and by purist tendencies, or, at least, efforts to enrich the language with new-formed words (not seldom after the German See also:pattern), as omkreds, periphery, selvstcendighed, See also:independence, valgsprog, devise, digter, poet. The leading representatives of these tendencies were Eilschow and Sneedorf. From their time Danish may be said to have acquired its present essential features, though it cannot be denied that several later authors, as J. See also:Ewald and See also:Ohlenschlager, have exercised a considerable influence on the poetical style. As the most important differences between the See also:gram- Form matical forms of the 18th and 19th centuries on one hand of the and those of the 16th and 17th centuries on the other, may language. be noted the following: most neuter substantives take a plural ending; those ending in a vowel form their plural by adding -r (as riger, for older rige, plural of rige, kingdom), and many of those ending in a consonant by adding -e (as huse for hus, of hus, See also:house) ; substantives ending in -ere drop their final -e (as dommer for dommere, See also:judge); the declension with suffixed article becomes simplified in the same way as in Swedish ; the plural of verbs takes the singular form (as drak for drukke, we drank); and the preterite subjunctive is supplanted by the infinitive (as See also:var for vaare, were). The first Modern Danish grammar is by E. See also:Pontoppidan, 1668, but in Latin; the first in Danish is by the famous Peder Syv, Gram- 1685. The works of the self-taught J. H¢jsgaard (e.g. mattcal Accentueret og raisonneret grammatica, 1747) possess great treatment. merit, and are of especial importance as regards accent and syntax. The earlier part of the 19th century gave us See also:Rask's grammar (183o). A thoroughly satisfactory Modern Danish grammar does not exist ; the most detailed is that by K. Mikkelsen (1894). The vocabulary of the 16th and 17th centuries is collected in' Kalkar's Ordbog, mentioned above; that of the 18th and 19th centuries in the voluminous dictionary of Videnskabernes Selskab (1793-19o5), and in C. Molbech's Dansk Ordbog (2nd ed., 1859) ; that of our days in B. T. See also:Dahl's and H. See also:Hammer's Dansk Ordbog for folket (1903 seq.). As already mentioned, Danish at the Reformation became the language of the literary and educated classes of See also:Norway and re- mained Inained so for three hundred years, although it cannot be denied that many Norwegian authors even during this "gm. n. period wrote a language with a distinct Norwegian See also:colour, as for instance the prominent prose-stylist Peder Clauss¢n See also:Friis (d. 1614), the popular poet Petter See also:Dass (d. 1708), and, in a certain degree, also the two literary masters of the 18th century, Holberg and See also:Wessel. But it is only since 1814, when Norway gained her independence, that we can clearly perceive the so-called Dano-Norwegian gradually developing as a distinct offshoot of the general Danish language. The first representatives of this new language are the writer of popular life M. See also:Hansen (d. 1842), the poets H. See also:Wergeland (d. 1845) and J. S. C. See also:Welhaven (d. 1873), but above all the tale-writers P. C. Asbj¢rnsen (d. 1885) and J. Moe (d. 1882). More recently it has been further See also:developed, especially by the great poets See also:Ibsen (d. Igoe) and Bjprnson and the novelist See also:Lie; and it has been said, not without reason, to have attained its classical perfection in the works of the first-named author. This language differs from Danish particularly in its vocabulary, having adopted very many Norwegian provincial words (more than 7000), less in its inflections, but to a very great extent in its See also:pronunciation. The most striking differences in this respect are the following: Norwegian p, t, k See also:answer to Danish b, d, g in cases where they are of later Form of date (see above)—as l¢pe, Danish l¢be, to run, liten, D. the/an- liden, little, bak, D. bag, back; to Danish k, g before gtla8e' palatal vowels answer Norwegian tj, j; r (point-trill, not back-trill as in Danish) is assimilated in some way with following t (d), 1, n, and s into so-called supradental sounds; both the primitive Scandinavian systems of accentuation are still kept separate from a musical point of view, in opposition to the monotonous Danish. There are several other characteristics, nearly all of which are points of See also:correspondence with Swedish.' Dano-Norwegian is in our days grammatically and lexically treated, especially by H. See also:Falk and A. Torp (e.g. Etymologisk Ordbog, 1903, 1906). At the middle of the 19th century, however, far more advanced pretensions were urged to an independent Norwegian language. By the Nor- study of the Modern Norwegian dialects and their mother Nog-an- language, Old Norwegian, the eminent philologist J. See also:Aasen Nor- (d. 1896) was led to undertake the bold project of See also:con- ian. structing,by the study of these two sources, and on the basis —gun. of his native dialect (S¢ndmpre), a Norwegian-Norwegian ("Norsk-Norsk ") language, the so-called " Landsmal." In 1853 he exhibited a specimen of it, and, thanks to such excellent writers as Aasen himself, the poets 0. Vinje and K. Janson, the novelists A. Garborg and J. Tvedt, as well as a zealous propagandism of the society Det Norske Samlag (founded in 1868) there has since arisen a valuable though not very large literature in the " Landsmal." Since 1892 it is also legally authorized to be, alternatively, used in the church and by teachers of the public See also:schools. But still it is nowhere colloquially used. Its grammatical structure and vocabulary are exhibited in Aasen's Norsk grammatik (1864) and Norsk Ordbog (1873), supplemented by H. See also:Ross's Norsk Ordbog (1895; with supplement, 1902). The local names of Norway are treated in the large work Norske Gaardnavne, by O. Rygh (1897 seq.). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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