Steve Simmons wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:53:40PM -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: > >> I'm wondering - has anybody read any stories where the Norse God's >> talked Sven and Ole/Fargo style? > > No, because the Norse Gods typically speak Norse - and with the > correct accent, to boot. True - but look at how people react to movies. When Tony Curtis shows a Brooklyn accent "Yonder is the Castle of my father" in a situation where no modern language fits - they laugh. We have British accents for Romans in Spartacus, and American accents for the slaves. Robin Hood did *not* speak in any accent we would recognize as British today. > Sven and Ole, however, talk just like my late Norwegian grandmother. Still think of a variation of _American Gods_. A Norse God kept alive by your Norwegian grandmother would be Her type of Norse.