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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 553635, member: 2844&quot;]He painted the Scream while he was living in Berlin, which is probably why the note on the back of the litho is in German rather than Norwegian. He would have spoken mostly German in Berlin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hanseatic language in Scandinavia was mostly a written trade language, but some words entered the local spoken languages. I don&#039;t think the influence on 19th century Norwegian was such that Munch could have confused it with High German, especially since he would have had a fair command of the German language during his Berlin period, when the Scream was painted.</p><p>The Hanseatic language influence in Norwegian comes from the main Hanseatic language, now called Middle Low German. It is different from the modern High German Munch wrote in the note. The closest present day relatives of Hanseatic German are to be found in northern Germany and in the Netherlands.</p><p>Geschrei is not a word in Saxon Dutch, which is one of the closest relatives to Hanseatic Middle Low German. It is a word in Franconian Dutch, but that is not relevant to the Hanseatic language.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some info on Middle Low German loanwords in Scandinavian languages and the Hansa link:</p><p><a href="http://germanic.eu/Middle-Low-German-loanwords-in-the-Scandinavian-languages.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://germanic.eu/Middle-Low-German-loanwords-in-the-Scandinavian-languages.htm" rel="nofollow">http://germanic.eu/Middle-Low-German-loanwords-in-the-Scandinavian-languages.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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