i think there are some good grammar books published in scandinavian
languages. i'll have a look, as i promised.
don't know where you guys come from, but here (germany) i wouldn't say you
usually study old norse as part of early germanic. it is mostly part of
scandinavian culture studies or scandinavian modern language courses. mona

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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: [norse_course] Structural grammar of Old Norse

> I sympathize. Mabye part of the problem is that Old Norse is usually
> studied as part of early Germanic. I came to Germanic with a moderately
> good background in IndoEuropean studies, but still found it rather
confusing
> at first. Roger Lass's book <Old English: A Historical and Linguistic
> Companion> was helpful to me in getting out of the primer stage and into
> an understanding of more far-reaching structural features. But Lass's
> book only cites Old Norse in support of his general picture of Old English
> and early Germanic. But after studying Lass it is not difficult to
understand
> (generally) the workings of Old Norse.
>
> There must be good studies of "issues" in the historical grammar of Norse,
> but I have never seen a referene to a real structural grammar of Old
> Norse. Gordon is good for the facts but very conventional.
>
> Gazariah
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