People who speak Icelandic can still understand the old Icelandic Sagas because of how little the language has changed over the past 1000 years.
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Due to its isolated location…
Due to its isolated location, the Icelandic language has changed very little from its original roots. Modern Icelandics can still read texts written in the 10th Century with relative ease.
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The Icelandic language was…
The Icelandic language was kept isolated for so long that modern speakers can still read and understand texts written in Old Norse, the language of the original viking settlers from Scandinavia that settled the Island over 1000 years ago.
Icelandic has changed so little in the last 1,000 years that present-day…
Icelandic has changed so little in the last 1,000 years that present-day Icelanders can read 12th Century texts without any difficulty.