Re: A little help needed

Heill �skar

Well, I've been trying to learn ON for a real long
time , about 7-8 years. The first book was "Graded
Reading Exercises in Old Icelandic" avery OLD book,
probally first printed by Gutenberg. Then I found
Intro. to Old Norse. For me this was a useless book,
cause it threw all of the grammer at you with no
explenation as to what it all ment. The last was "Old
Icelandic: An Introductory Course" really good book.
I found it at a Liberary sale along with Zoega's
Dictionary. The local university has a copy of
Cleasby-Vigfuson's Dictionary.

All of these are now Out of Print in the US as far as
I know. There is a new book out by the Viking Society
called "A New Introduction to Old Norse" by Michael
Barns. Its rather good but a real pain in the ass to
get here in the States. You have to order it from the
Society and it took me about 3 months to get my copy.

There are no ON Dictionaries available. Most the
people that I know photocopied my copy of Zoega.

And that, my friend is the state of Old Norse in the
Dayton, Ohio area (southwestern Ohio).

Rob

--- �skar Gu�laugsson <hr_oskar@...> wrote:

> Heil �ll,
>
> Can any of you describe for me your experience with
> finding ON
> material? I've heard lots of it before, and I have
> the general
> impression of it (of there being an acute lack), but
> I need my memory
> refreshed. Like, what were the books like, that you
> have managed to
> find, and how easy/difficult was it to obtain them.
> What's with the
> dictionary issue? (I haven't been paying attention
> to it, I admit) Is
> there really just one ON-English dictionary, that
> dusty old
> Cleasby-Vigf�sson thing? You would do great aid to
> the course if you'd
> help me with this, by telling your "story" (of your
> career in ON),
> either privately or on-list. Let's just say I need
> the information for
> something which can mean alot for the course :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> �skar :)
>
>
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>
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