Hello, All. My name is Rose, I'm 56, I live in rural upstate New York. I have embarked on a study of the runes and it has kindled an interest in Old Norse, especially for the reading of poems, eddas, etc.
QUESTIONS: Other than learning Old Norse, I would also like to learn a living language that is as close to Old Norse as possible. What would that language would be? And are there any online resources for learning it? Would it be Icelandic, Norwegian, Finnish?
My thinking is that even though Old Norse is no longer spoken, it must still bear at least a faint resemblance to some extant language akin to it; for example, as Italian is to Latin, perhaps.
This is all very new to me as I have never studied a language on my own. Latin and Spanish in high school, but that was alotta presidents ago.......
Thanks,
Rose
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