Playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla via Steam Link on my TV, good fun. I’ve been learning Icelandic over the last few years, and was surprised that the Norse background NPC’s actually speak it! Very cool to be able to understand the background conversations, quite immersive too.
(As far as we know Icelandic is essentially identical to old Norse, spoken across Scandinavia a thousand years ago.)
Iceland intentionally kept their language from changing too much, so it’s largely intelligible with Old Norse. Even more impressive to me is the part where you go to Vinland and the natives speak actual Mohawk which is not translated, but you can find what they’re saying online.
Playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla via Steam Link on my TV, good fun. I’ve been learning Icelandic over the last few years, and was surprised that the Norse background NPC’s actually speak it! Very cool to be able to understand the background conversations, quite immersive too.
(As far as we know Icelandic is essentially identical to old Norse, spoken across Scandinavia a thousand years ago.)
Iceland intentionally kept their language from changing too much, so it’s largely intelligible with Old Norse. Even more impressive to me is the part where you go to Vinland and the natives speak actual Mohawk which is not translated, but you can find what they’re saying online.