Modern Icelandic & Old Norse almost identical when spoken..

[Thor]

Snorri Sturluson in his literature sometimes refers to the old Norse language as " Dönsk tunga" or the Danish tongue.

[Thor]

Some scholar by the name of Ebenezer Henderson noted that Icelandic has many similarities with the language of the Goths, compare for instance
from the pater noster
Gothic: "Wairþai wilja þeins swe in himina jah ana aírþai" note that ai is pronounced like e and ei like ee
Icelandic: Verði vilji þinn svo á himni og á jörðu

[Thor]

Anyway im damn proud of my language no matter what some Multicultural libtard says.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

I have noticed that Icelanders and Finns have very similar accent when they speak English.

Yes.

Why?

Who can we get on the case? We need Jaska Mason. Again

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Snorri Sturluson in his literature sometimes refers to the old Norse language as " Dönsk tunga" or the Danish tongue.

This probably has more to do with the fact that Southern Norway was part of the Danish realm. Norwegians ruled the area north of this. To mention that the Danish tongue was used may have been to point that he speaker infact was a Dane, not a Norwegian.

[Pallantides]

The viken area was ruled by Danes
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viken

[Belenus]

I once read about a movement to preserve the lingual purity of Icelandic by removing foreign loan words and developing Icelandic substitutes for them. Anyone know the name of said movement or have more information about this subject? I feel it would be wise for many small, endangered languages to rigidly guard their purity. One day, when I learn to speak Irish Gaelic, I hope I won't find a ton of foreign loan words. Anyway, I'd like to see how the Icelandic 'purists' guard their language.

[Baron Samedi]

This is the exact reason why I'm trying to learn modern Icelandic.

[Karl]

I once read about a movement to preserve the lingual purity of Icelandic by removing foreign loan words and developing Icelandic substitutes for them. Anyone know the name of said movement or have more information about this subject? I feel it would be wise for many small, endangered languages to rigidly guard their purity. One day, when I learn to speak Irish Gaelic, I hope I won't find a ton of foreign loan words. Anyway, I'd like to see how the Icelandic 'purists' guard their language.

This is a common thing among small languages. Both Estonians and Finns are trying to preserve their languages by not using/replacing foreign loan words.

For instance, recently a new Estonian word was "created" to replace the word infrastruktuur(infrastructure), the new word is taristu.