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Names Pronunciation

This small and essential compendium of Norse pronunciation is meant to help GM and players with dealing with the names and nouns present.   The ‘r’ after a consonant at the end of a word, like Vanaheimr, Jörmungandr etcetera is pronounced as if there was a ‘u’ between consonants. As an example, Jörmungandr is pronounced ‘JOR-mun-GAN-dur’, and Vanaheimr is ‘va-na-HEI-mur’.   Á/á: is read like the ‘o’ in “house”, but longer.   É/é: is read like the ‘e’ in “great”, but longer.   Í/í: is read like the double ‘e’ in “feel”.   Ó/ó: is a long O, OO.   Ú/ú: is read like the double ‘o’ in “moon”.   Y/y: is read like the German ‘ü’. Sometimes, however, is just ‘u’.   Ý/ý: is read like the German ‘ü’.   Æ/æ: is an open È, as in “went”.   Ǽ/ ǽ: extremely rare, is read like the ‘i’ in “fight”.   OE/oe: is a sound close to the German ‘ö’.   Ö/ö: is read like the ‘a’ in ”all”.   Ø/ø: read like the Danish or Norwegian ‘ø’ or the Swedish ‘ö’ it sounds like an ‘e’ with umlaut.   Ǿ/ ǿ: extremely rare, it is a longer ‘ø’.   F/f: is read like a normal ‘f ’. If it is last or second-to-last in a word, though, it is read as ‘v’.   G/g: is read like a normal ‘g’, like in “good”.   H/h: silent before consonants. ‘hv-’ is read ‘v-’.   J/j: is read like the ‘y’ in “young”.   K/k: is read normally.   R/r: is a rolling ‘r’   Ð/ð: it is read like ‘th’ in “that”.   Þ/þ: it is read like ‘th’ in “thing”.   N/n: is read like a normal ‘n’. At the end of a word after a consonant, is read as if there was a silent vowel in between. “Hrafn”, then, is read “RA-f(e)n”.

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