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* 10th C Norseman frozen in a glacier, thaws out in present day Iceland *
* 10th C Norseman starts conversations with modern Icelanders without difficulty *

* 10th C Norseman frozen in a glacier, thaws out anywhere in Scandinavia other than Iceland *
* “I can’t understand this guy at all. Must be Danish.”

@Leucrotta "[speaking perfect Icelandic] Wow, what's with all the... /everything??/"

The clash between perfectly understandable language and COMPLETELY different world is a really neat idea.

@frostwolf I'm not entirely making it up either; there was some sort of later medieval language shift which never hit Iceland, because it was so isolated from the rest of the Scandinavian world.

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