I don't know how distant Polish and Norse are but learning one inflectected language goes hand in hand with another, I find. My elementary knowledge of Polish helps me with Old English and Old Norse






Użytkownik CJEvanson <cjevanson@...> napisał:

>Sveiki!
>
>I am a new subscriber to this group and would like to introduce
>myself. I am an American of Norwegian-American ancestry. After 38
>years in parish ministry in Canada and the U.S., I have since 1999 have been serving on the faculty of Evangelical Theology
>at the University of Klaipeda, Klaipeda, Lithuania, on the Baltic
>coast. I teach Hebrew and Historical and Systematic Theology. My theological training included work in Latin, Greek, German, and
>Syriac, and some reading in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian - in addition to a bit of secondary school French.
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>I first began interested in Old Norse over twenty years ago when, while visiting one of my sons at
>Indiana University, I picked up E. V. Gordon's 'An Introduction to Old
>Norse' at the I. U. Union Book Sotre. I found it a little difficult to
>work with, but the selections included were not altogether impossible
>to translate.
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>Now, a long way from home and with some hours to spare between
>lectures, I have found the Ţorgeirsson - Guđlaugsson course a good
>review and almost painless way to get back into this fasinatng
>language which has significance also for this side of the Baltic. Of
>course, the Baltic languages, Lithuanian and Latvian, are at best only
>distance cousins of the Scandinavian tongues. They are much more
>closely related to the Slavic languages. Learning Lithuanian is hard
>work, but becoming reacquainted with Old Norse seems almost recreational.
>
>I've not much to contribute at this point. But in the few days since
>joining this interest group I've found the questions and answers and
>interchange both intersting and informative.
>
>Viso gero.
>
>Charles Evanson
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>Sumir hafa kvćđi...
>...ađrir spakmćli.
>
>- Keth
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>Homepage: http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/
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