So do I. I just don’t like saying Meus in front of Deus much, but I know it doesn’t matter.Stylistic thing: I think it would look better if the noun and possessive were in the same order in order in all three parts.
I agree it sounds a little funny, perhaps because we read it in the reverse order all the time. Maybe you should put the possessive at the end in all three parts.So do I. I just don’t like saying Meus in front of Deus much, but I know it doesn’t matter.
"Min Gud, min land, min ære"
It sounds so much like Old English!
Yeah, naturally. But a tad closer to OE, I think.Or German.
I thought of doing that.I agree it sounds a little funny, perhaps because we read it in the reverse order all the time. Maybe you should put the possessive at the end in all three parts.
Oh, weird. IS is heiður. I would’ve thought that the Danish word would be closer...Yeah, naturally. But a tad closer to OE, I think.
OE:
Min God, min land, min ar*.
*Means honos rather than the more moral sense, I think.
Mein Gott, mein Land, meine Ehre (?)
I first wrote "min land", assuming "mit" was a typo, but apparently I was wrong, since it appears with "mit" everywhere on Google and "mit" is found for "my" in other Danish kings' mottoes. I guess there's a rule that "min" becomes "mit" before certain letters."Min Gud, mit land, min ære"
Or perhaps "mit" is the neuter form.
Well, "that" does.Germanic demonstratives also end in t
Since IS still has mitt, at first I thought Danish just had it simplified.I first wrote "min land", assuming "mit" was a typo, but apparently I was wrong, since it appears with "mit" everywhere on Google and "mit" is found for "my" in other Danish kings' mottoes. I guess there's a rule that "min" becomes "mit" before certain letters.