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By Even Hovdhaugen, Fred Karlsson, Carol Henriksen and Bengt Sigurd

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Foreign languages were not used much in Iceland during the first centuries after the Reformation (Ottósson 1990:24-27, 29-35). Latin remained the learned language, as in the other Nordic countries. The Reformation itself was rooted in High German, and before 1600, German was better known in Iceland than Danish. Danish remained relatively little known in the seventeenth century, although its use in administration and commerce was increasing. The basic law code was Jónsbók (Book of Jón) from 1281, but after the adoption of Absolutism in 1662, laws in Danish were used to an increased extent alongside Icelandic law.

Another reinforcing factor is found in the merchants along the Baltic coast, who took a commercial interest in the increasing use of the vernaculars (Klinge 1994:53). The majority of the linguistic studies of the vernacular from this period are closely connected with the political and economic development of the emerging Nordic nation states: Denmark (including Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland), and Sweden (including Finland, and in periods Estonia and parts of Germany). The centralization of government and commerce created the need for a common linguistic norm for which a model had to be found and agreed upon.

Who was also a Swede and the author of the next Sámi grammar (1743), assumed Sámi to be a very old language, a descendent of Hebrew. To Ganandrus, Sámi, like the related languages Finnish and Estonian, constituted one of the seventy languages arising out of the confusion of Babel. A very favorable view of the language that reflected deep insight is found in the preface of the third Sámi grammar (1748). Leem claimed that most people of his time regarded Sámi to be: an absurd, wild, and confused language in which there are no rules for the construction of words, for inflection, and similar things.

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