Heil Catherine,

In a message dated 2/24/02 10:52:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, chagemann@... writes:


The book that you mentioned sounds very interesting.Would it still be in
print and available do you know ?
Catherine
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [norse_course] Re:introduction


>
> I started with Old English--my first love.  Which started with middle
English, etc, etc.
> Then my wife got me a copy of Old English and Its Closest Relatives, by
Orrin (can't remember the bloke's first name).  It has an excellent chapter
on ON and I fell in love.   

I have this book at my bed, and I love the chapters on Old Saxon and Old Norse.  It is so exciting to see that the further you go back, the more all the lines run together.

Orrin W. Robinson:  Old English and Its Closest Relatives, A survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1992, ISBN 0-8047-1454-1 hardback and ISBN 0-8047-2221-8 paperback.  

I bought it at Borders a couple of years ago, it should be fairly easily available.  The author is professor of German Studies at Stanford University.

Ver sæl,
Birgit