Linden_Lea_01 t1_j4udgsz wrote on January 18, 2023 at 9:01 AM

Reply to comment by doctorcrimson in World’s oldest rune stone found in Norway, archaeologists believe by danishistorian

What do you mean? Modern Scandinavian languages are directly descended from Old Norse, and Old Norse texts can be read and understood very well.

LateInTheAfternoon t1_j4uligh wrote on January 18, 2023 at 10:53 AM

*fairly well. There are still a lot of conundrums. More to the point, the language here is not Old Norse but proto-Norse for which our knowledge is very limited partly due to the relatively few samples we have of the language, partly due to how much Old Norse has deviated from proto-Norse.