Old Norse is NOT Icelandic

The differences in meaning, grammar, and context between Old and Modern Icelandic are significant.

The newest generation of Icelanders, generally, have lost the understanding that Old Norse (norrœnt mál, Gammel Norsk, or Old Icelandic) is different from modern Icelandic. Typically, they will see Old Norse terms as having the same meaning as the same modern Icelandic words, sometimes going even as far as seeing words spelled in Old Norse without the t…