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Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind

Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind

Posted Jul 29, 2022 18:15 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152)
In reply to: Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind by Sesse
Parent article: Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind

If so I wonder if simply the English pages for the pronunciation is wrong or we are missing something. Don't know if Norwegian have the same rules as Swedish but most English pronounce Valhall and Valgrind as as Swede would do if they had been spelled as Vallhall and Vallgrind since the double l:s turn the preceeding a from a long a to a short a.

In the original Grímnismál it's written as Valgrind in old Icelandic (which is as close to old norse as we can come) and not as Vælgrind. And Icelandic have æ just as Danish and Norwegian does so it's not omitted due to the character not being there.

Valgrind heitir,
er stendr velli á
heilög fyr helgom durom;
forn er sú grind,
en þat fáir vito,
hvé hón er í lás lokin.


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