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<\/a>\nA reading book for children from 1930. As you can tell, not much difference from modern Icelandic.<\/p>\n
As you can tell, nothing in the handwriting seems to be as drastically different as in the US, where most people moved from cursive to print. Most Icelanders that I’ve met write in cursive, and my teachers at the University write in cursive but will sometimes demonstrate how letters (\u00e6 especially) are written in print.<\/p>\n Here are some photos of old things and ads: I’ll do a post on WWII in Iceland sometime, but it might not be soon.<\/p>\n Copies of old knitting patterns printed in Icelandic newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Place where you can download pages of old newspapers.<\/a><\/p>\n My tumblr where I have more photos of old stuff from Iceland.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAUR stands for aurar (singular eyrir), which was less than a full crown and is no longer used today.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis is a book from 1970.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis is a postcard from 1923.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThese are notes found in an Esperanto for Icelanders book from 1909.<\/p>\n
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\nMy sixty-five year old landlady’s parents.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nOld ads in a Nj\u00e1ls’ Saga museum exhibit.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n