Pronouncing Scandinavian names - pet peeve

Many thanks, lovely Puffinshop!

Essentially yes, Ig-dra-sil. Stress always on the first syllable.

In modern Icelandic a double g is a little harder than an English hard g, almost a k.

But don't bother with all that

Lovely speakers of northern languages, please would you tell me how to pronounce Yggdrasil? Is it 'Ig dra sil'?
I am reading the Bernard Cornwall books, and this tree keeps cropping up.

I have a Magnus in the UK and we pronounce it with a hard G generally although I'm aware it's Mang-nus in Sweden (I'm half Swedish). It's just easier in the UK and I like both versions.
My dad who is Swedish pronounces it as Mang-nus generally although it's barely noticeable - I didn't even realise he did for the first year 😂. I asked him about it and he didn't think it was remotely strange to pronounce it slightly differently when speaking English.
He's "Mag" for short anyway.

Roburrt in Scotland. Or Robbie or Rabbie or Rab.

To be honest, el rey Carlos does sound a lot more exciting than King Charles.

@Violinist64 , What @AndiOliversGlasses posted.
I know Robet, Robat, Roberrt and Robut.

Neither of us disagreed with your point. We just disagreed with the statement that all of the UK says Robert as “Robut”.

@AndiOliversGlasses and @KirstenBlest, you have both rather proved my point about names being pronounced in different ways and all of them correct and none of them wrong.

Robert has various pronunciations in the UK, even within England.

In England you may see “Robert” and think “Robut” but the whole UK does not say it like that. In Scotland it is “Roburt” with a strongly-pronounced R. We don’t say “Robut Buns”! We also say it this way when we talk about Robert the Bruce who sent you English homewards to think again! (Though he was actually of French ancestry so who knows how he actually said his own name 😂).

Also, many of the same names are used throughout Europe and beyond but often with different pronunciations and/or spellings. Robert is a very good example. In the UK and Germany, we see the name and immediately think Robut, but in France the same spelling is pronounced Robair. Neither is wrong.

The names of princes and kings and queens are ALWAYS translated in Spain. So Queen Elizabeth was la reina Isabell II, King Charles is el rey Carlos, princess Catherine is Catalina and William is Guillermo. It´s a norm as from forever.

They thought they'd changed the name on the subtitles. It came up as we were talking about how they don't always do a direct translation. I remember once they translated Malmö to Sweden 😂

Love Borgen, and how they pronounced Laura (lovely name in both English and Danish).

That’s odd, as they were either a Danish speaker, or they must have been reading the subtitles?

We were discussing Borgen at work one day and my colleagues didn't even realise that the son of the prime minister was called Magnus.

I say Charles de Gaul not Charles de Gaulle. We also say Joan of Arc not Jeanne d'Arc.

Yes, although Prince William is always called Prince William in France, and Charles is called Charles but they pronounce it the French way. At first I had no idea who this Sharl Twa person was, who everyone kept asking me about!

@MagnusMagnussonNotHisRealName I have no idea who decides on the authentic pronunciation of Latin, or how they get there! We weren't too bothered about that stuff a quarter of a century ago when I was at university (unless you did the paper on Latin linguistics maybe? I didn't). It was the era of "serwoos" as you say, so no longer the really heinous traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and yet things have moved on since.

In September I'm starting a two year masters degree in Classics. In the first term I have to re-read Lucan's Pharsalia (groan...) whose hero is of course Magnus, i.e. Pompey. I'll be sure to have more info for you then, unless a more up-to-date classicist can help us out first!

Magnus is (literally) a great name btw.

Guillaume is French, but at the time England was conquered by a Guillaume he and his army spoke Norman French where the letter 'g' was pronounced as we pronounce 'w'.

@AnonymousArmadillo

It's incredibly useful when you have a few people with the same given name.

Their children would be (are?) Tywysog Siôr, Tywysoges Siarlot a Thywysog Lewis.

The king is Brenin Siarl, but the BBC uses Brenin Charles
I haven't heard anyone refer to Wills & Kate as Gwilym & Catrin but as they are the PoWs, it would make sense :-)

@Feelsodrained , the ahstreed was my approximation. I haven't heard Freya said as anything other than fray-uh in the UK.

The using the local version of a name of royals was standard until fairly recently here too, I think.
We say Catherine of Aragon, Catherine the Great etc

This is us too! Our son has a Scandinavian name, which we pronounce in a way that is likely not entirely as would be in Finnish. I wouldn't be offended if someone from Scandinavia pronounced it as they would typically, however I would take objection to being told I was saying my own child's name 'wrong' - we named him!
For what it's worth I have an English name that has at least three different common pronunciations and very few people use the one that my parents use. It doesn't bother me or them.