Talk:Thelir

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While Thelir and Thilir are equally correct, Thelir seems to be the form favoured in English texts (Þ = th). In Modern Norwegian the spelling is adapted into teler (Bokmål) and telar (Nynorsk) to conform with modern Norwegian spelling, by simplifying the sound th (Þ) into a t and adapting the ending into the modern indefinite plural form (-er and -ar, respectively), but that isn't really relevant for how we spell the name in English, and unlike Modern Norwegian, English still has the sound th (=Þ). Thelir and Thilir are based on the original name in Old Norse, not spellings adopted in Norwegian a millennium later. --Nýjustu (talk) 23:06, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]