Terje Henriksen wrote:
Jim Howe wrote:
Ok, more off topic - Russian is a Slavic language. Nordic does not
refer to a language, rather a group of nothern european countries -
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland (as well as a discipline
of skiing). Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (Icelandic) like English are
Germanic languages. Finnish is something completely different.

Icelandic comes from the old norwegian language, "Gammelnorsk". They didn=
't
change their language when the norwegian ppoulation changed to a more
danish-like during the union with Denmark.

No, Norwegian comes from the old Icelandic language that was spoken all
over the Nordic countries in the Viking times.
The Norwegian language all but disappeared but was resurrected from old
local dialects at the end of the 19th century as Nynorsk and from the
Danish language spoken in Christiania (Oslo) and other places in East
Norway as Bokm=E5l.
Icelandic remained more or less intact, the modern version of the Old
Icelandic (old Norse) language.