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Help[Facts] Re: How would you pronounce Leofwine?
in reply to a message by bisclavret
No. As Felie noted, Anglo-Saxon was like Italian in that every vowel was sounded, even the final -e that we are familiar with as a silent -e that lengthens the preceding vowel if it does anything. (OK, there were some blends, like ae, which is often written as æ, but they mostly came later.)
I hope this doesn't give you nightmares, but there was a tough old Anglo-Saxon king named Ina. Or, sometimes, Ine, but it would have sounded the same.
I hope this doesn't give you nightmares, but there was a tough old Anglo-Saxon king named Ina. Or, sometimes, Ine, but it would have sounded the same.
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