Verið allir heilir! (is that correct or does ON use another gender
for a plural encompassing both genders? neutrum?)

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:51:52AM -0000, Óskar Guðlaugsson wrote:
> Heil öll,

> Ok, now I'm back at the console in the university library, with access
> to the university server, where all the course files are. That is to
> say, I'm back to working on the course after a long weekend.

> Three formats prevail:

> .html/.htm sth you should all be able to read, which also supports
> rich text features.

> .txt can also be read by all (AFAIK), but does not support
> rich text.

> .rtf can be read by fewer (us MS slaves), but by more than
> .doc, as far as I understand; looks closest to the
> original lay-out, so it's the "nicest looking" format.

Nice resolve. Frankly, I think rich text features aren't so much
needed for language lessons. I coped very well in ancient times
with an online Esperanto course, when neither HTML nor rtf or anything
were there :-)

> The new Chapter One is now available in all three formats (.htm on the
> course homepage: www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ ). I encourage all of you
> to go through Chapter One, even though you have reached lesson 5 (or
> sth) in the old scheme (though such advanced students should not feel
> bad about just browsing it). Chapter One has a different order of
> presentation, and there are various features that were never discussed
> in the old lesson plan.

Very fine. Will do soon, thanks for the work involved with those
course preparations. Frankly, I'm probably not *too* much behind,
having studied from a book a bit even before I found out about this
mailing list.

> Enjoy,
> Óskar


> Sumir hafa kvæði...
> ...aðrir spakmæli.

Hmmm. I don't find the words used in the second line in the dictionaries
I have at hand offline.

> - Keth

> Homepage: http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/

> [...]

Í friði,

Hannah.