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Anarchism (Dutch: words of warning)
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> Jonathan Ball > writes:
>>Sigvaldi Eggertsson wrote:
>>>The laws of the old Alþingi
>>What is the third letter of that word, and how is it pronounced?
> It is pronounced "th". I _believe_ it's called "thorn", though I could
> be wrong: there was an olde English letter named "thorn" with the same
> sound. (It looked almost like a y--as in "ye old coffee shoppe".)
Yes, the usual English translation is "Althing".
Rat
(having a Norse pagan in the family for some years is sometimes a
useful thing...)
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