Heill ves þú Gordon!
Thanks for the links, some of them I have not heard of and I am
trying to find good Icelandic sources, especially a comphrehensive
Modern Icelandic Dictionary, could you recommend one.
Further, you have a idea about posting sentences (for correction)
on the Learning Icelandic group but I especially want to converse in
ON but there are not alot of differences and some of what is
different will jump out at you.

Besta,
Anþanarik

> The most helpful beginners text I have found to learn modern

Icelandic is _Learning Icelandic_ by Auður Einarsdóttir et al.,
published by Mál og Menning, 2001. The second most helpful is
_Icelandic for Beginners_, second edition (1992), by Bartoszek and
Tran, published by Fjölment / Bréfaskólinn. I ordered both of these
from the University of Iceland bookstore, which has a web site
(www.bóksala.is). The third most helpful has been Einarsson's
_Icelandic_, since it has an extensive glossary and a fairly full
reference grammar, although its pedagogical presentation leaves much
to be desired.

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> For Old Icelandic, I favor _Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course_

by Valfells and Cathey, published by Oxford University Press in
1981. Although Valfells introduces in each chapter far too many new
vocabulary words and too few short reading selections, his
presentation of the morphology and syntax is extremely helpful (to
me, anyway -- but then I've had training in linguistics).

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> My interest is in developing only the reading skills. Leaving out

the other skills (speaking, aural comprehension, writing, and
translation) saves me a lot of time. I find that I proceed much
faster toward my goal, that of being able to read both Old and modern
Icelandic fiction with relative ease, i.e., little dictionary
thumbing.

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> Anyway, have fun!
>
> Gordon Ross