The Viking and the Red Man by Reider T. Sherwin

Unsurprisingly, The Viking and the Red Man has not been favorably received by academics, with two book reviews in scholarly journals panning it. The Viking and the red man the Old Norse origin of the Algonquin language, by Reider T. But instead of showing that such correspondences exist, Sherwin prefers to merely pile up as many Old Norse or Norwegian words as he can until he gets a result that sounds more or less like whatever Algonquian word he's currently looking at.

In reality, if Algonquian were descended from Old Norse (or if it borrowed words from Old Norse it's not clear which of these situations Sherwin believes to be the case), then there should be regular sound correspondences between the two languages that could be applied to find the Old Norse equivalents of Algonquian words. The Viking and the Red Man Vol 3 : The Old Norse Origin of the Algonquin Language. After all, who's to say that skudakumootc isn't really from 'ask the dead guy much', or the French est-ce que des gars meurent? ('are some guys dying?') Or, for that matter, that the German word Schadenfreude isn't from the English 'shake the friend off'? Publisher: REIDER T SHERWIN, self-published by the author, 1944, New York, 1st edition. The problem with this kind of methodology is that it could be used to derive any word from any language. Koma (kem, kom, etc.), verb, to come, arrive koma uut, to get out, come outġ skodda koma uut, 'comes out of the haze” Skodda (Norse dialect), noun, fog, heavy haze that covers the earth and obstructs the view SKUDAKUMOOTC, 1 a ghost, apparition (Rand-Clark) Just look at the entry for the word skudakumootc: Sherwins, The Viking and the Red Man: the Old Norse origin of the Algonquin language (New York: Funk &. Sherwin williams industrial paint colors, Hiking nassau bahamas. Sherwin's methodology consists of taking an Algonquian word (or multiple cognates of the same word in different Algonquian languages) and finding an Old Norse or Norwegian word or group of words that resembles it, with the latter often having only a tenuous semantic connection to the former. He also wrote a foreword to volume six of Reider T. Theresa caputo t shirt sayings, Redman and mary j blige, Champions mens essential.

The Viking and the Red Man by Reider T. Sherwin