--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Jakob Feddersen" <jakob@...> wrote:

> ...thank you much for taking the time to read this email.
>
> In Service,
> Ísólfr

Oh, my, I am so pleased to see this note, because I am fairly fresh
meat here, too. The list of online dictionaries is so helpful!

By way of introduction, let me say I am not from Denmark, though I
have a Danish immigrant mother, and she and I did take some university
Danish in the United States, oh, about 20 years ago. Alas, most of my
Danish comes by way of my great-aunts and uncles with their lovely,
soft accents in English. It's probable that my spoken Norse will sound
like their voices, which is preferable I imagine, to a plain Yankee
tongue. Especially as the odds of finding a companion speaker in
Oregon are small, I shall sound as if I knew what I was talking.

Isolfr, shall we begin together? (I apologize for the lack of
diacritics and for the cobbled-together spelling; haven't the stuff on
this hook-up to do otherwise.)

Saeunn Byvordhr