--- tsdoughty@... wrote:
> No. What ON dictionary is available that isn't
> extremely expensive?
>
> Tim
>
Hi Tim!
I took a look in Amazon.COM. But the two I know
about, Zo�ga: "Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic"
and Richard Cleasby "Icelandic-English Dictionary" are
out of print. And that is a pity, because they were
good.

What I did find, were the following, that are in print
now:

1)Arnold R. Taylor:
Icelandic-English/English-Icelandic Dictionary, $8.95.
2)English-Icelandic Dictionary (1994), $67,
isbn 9979835028.
3)A. Sigurdsson: Islensk Ensk Ordabok, $89.95,
isbn 9979306874.
4)Ensk-Islensk Ordabok, $106, isbn 9979306858.

That is all I found. But you might be able to find
more in Iceland. Better ask Eysteinn about that.
He knows what books you can get in Iceland.

If you don't already have a dictionary, any of
these would be better than nothing. But they are of
course modern Icelandic, and so you do not immediately
find out the old forms (ON).

But if you in addition to these get the Icelandic
Etymological dictionary, you should be well helped,
because it gives you the old forms via the etymology.
Then, in order to be well helped you need 3 of these
books. So that would be several hundreds of dollars.
It is of course possible to learn without a dictionary
too, because in some texts there are dictionaries
of the words in the text at the back of the book.
But that presupposes that you more or less memorize
a certain number of pages of text. i.e. some saga.
I know the Viking society has some books like that.
But I think that today most students of Old Norse
will need a dictionary, because they will want to
look at more than one text.

Cheers,
Keth






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