Hi Josh,

I hardly post here myself, but I did want to mention that I found the Gordon book to be similarly difficult.

Fortunately, Michael Barnes released a three-volume "New Introduction to Old Norse", issued by the Viking Society for Northern Research over in the UK. I got mine through ASU:

http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications/mrts/vsnr.html

I find it much more approachable than the Gordon.

Hope that helps!

Joseph

On 10/14/05, Josh Teeters <joshuateeters@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself. I just joined the group a few days ago.

As can probably be guessed from my email address, my name's Josh. I'm highly interested in medieval history, as well as languages. I've been learning German off and on for a few years.

I bought E.V. Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse a few years ago. Upon looking in it, however, I was overwhelmed. I was used to slightly more 'structured' language learning books. I wasn't acquainted with being given a terse grammar and thrown into full texts. :)

So, I put it away. It's been on my bookshelf ever since. A few days ago, for some reason or another, I searched for Old Norse, and came across the online course for beginners. This in turn led me to this group.

I'm looking forward to going through the online lessons. They seem a bit more graded than Mr. Gordon's book. :)

How would you all recommend I proceed? Go through the lessons online and then start with Gordon's book? Or is there a middle-ground stepping stone that I should use before moving from the online course to the book?

Any and all advice is highly appreciated. :)

Thanks.


Best regards,
Josh

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