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Old Norse Language is an extinct ancient nordic germanic language that was spoken across the central and northern europe during the early medieval period era, it was the spoken language during the erion saga event in 784 A.D. and it is also the original written language text of erion saga poem and king gallon was the original writer/author of it, he originally wrote the erion saga poem in old norse language text, it was the liturgical language of odin sphere and the scandinavian paganism, the language went extinct after the event of erion saga and end of armageddon that nearly destroying and killing almost everyone in the world except oswald and gwendolyn and they we're the last 2 remaining native speakers of old norse language, it is been speculated that the remaining five survivors of erion saga event with possibly one more survivor other than the 2 crownless lords, cornelius and velvet which was probably alice's actual distant medieval ancestor, may have developed their own system of language writing and speaking that was distinct from it, resulting in diverging the old norse language that became it's main cause of extinction as the generation passes during the late stages of early medieval period.

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  • Old Norse Language later went extinct during the early years of high middle ages but it evolved and developed into it's offspring variants (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and possibly English) that spawned before it's extinction and these languages are still spoken today, old norse language fate is similar to latin language despite being a dead language it has living language descendant variants that acts as it's successors, latin language descendant variants are (Catalan, French, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian).
  • The Original Alphabetical Writing System of Old Norse Language that was used for it's writing was the furthark, it was a runic symbol alphabetical writing system used by ancient germanic tribes to write the old norse language, it was also the first alphabetical writing system of germanic languages (Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, English) before the adoption of the Roman Alphabetical Writing system during the christianization of their region.
  • Icelandic Language is the most related and closest living language descendant of old norse language compared to other living language descendants of old norse language and those other living language descendants of old norse language are (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and possibly English) because this language changed very little from it's original roots because of iceland isolated geography from the rest of europe, as a result, the history of the country changed very little since it's foundation affecting it's spoken language to change very little from it's original roots that was brought by the medieval nordic settlers in iceland from norway, iceland is an island country located in the far northwest sea of europe which is part of the northern atlantic ocean situated in the marginal zone of norwegian sea, it is the place where icelandic language is spoken, because of this, icelandic people can still read written medieval texts of any nordic languages that dates from at least 9th century with ease and it is also possible for them to read and understand the original written medieval language texts of erion saga poem which was the old norse language in a highly excellent comprehension level easily without any difficulties.
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