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Icelandic Genealogical Word List (view source)
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Spelling rules were not standardized in earlier centuries. Words were written as they sounded. Because Iceland was under Danish rule so long, and because many officials were Danish or had been educated in Denmark, Danish influence was prominent in vocabulary and style until the late eighteenth century. | Spelling rules were not standardized in earlier centuries. Words were written as they sounded. Because Iceland was under Danish rule so long, and because many officials were Danish or had been educated in Denmark, Danish influence was prominent in vocabulary and style until the late eighteenth century. | ||
In the 1703, 1801, and 1816 censuses and in the oldest church registers, the following | In the 1703, 1801, and 1816 censuses and in the oldest church registers, the following graphemic or spelling variations are common: | ||
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