On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, rags123us wrote:

> I posted a similar question a couple of months ago. The general
> opinion was that these books cost $$$.
>
> Recently, from the online second-hand bookstores I bought the one by
> Zoega for GBP 85 and Cleasby's dictionary for US$ 200! Needless to
> say it made a big dent in my pocket.
>
> Now www.addall.com lists 2 copies of Zoega's dictionary for around 40
> $ each :-(

Not any more they don't. Someone snatched them up, it seems. You didn't
do too badly, according to that site now.

(I didn't know about that site. Very neat.)

Speaking of books, one of the searches I just did ran in to "Old
Icelandic: An Introductory Course" by Sigrid Valfels, published by Oxford
University in 1981. Has anyone seen this, and would you say it's a useful
book or not?

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