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Originally Posted by Anomylous
Icelandic: Obvious choice for your Viking counterparts; it is pretty recognizable but Vikings, like Dwarves, are basically the same everywhere so that's okay. Respell the "thorn" (Þ / þ) and "eth" (Ð / ð) letters as "th" and "dh" respectively, and it becomes much less terrifying to read.
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Also a bit of info. Þ/þ is never found at the end of a word, and Ð/ð is never found at the beginning of a word. Yet those letters are pretty much for the same sound. We also have Áá, Éé, Íí, Óó Úú, Ýý, Ææ, Öö.
Modern Icelandic doesn't use C/c and Z/z. We also have discovered the letter U ages ago despite the tendency of (foreign) authors to skip it . Leading to words like draugr, or names like Baldr, which the modern Icelander and even an Icelander a multiple centuries back would spell as draugur and Baldur. The u-less words are Norse.