I would love some translation exercises!

Jennifer

>From: Laurel Bradshaw <llawryf@...>
>Reply-To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [norse_course] Re: Short, sweet and to the point
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:21:43 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Hi folks,
>Another beginner weighing in here. And thanks to the brave souls who
>brought up the subject. I did post, not too terribly long ago, that I had
>just gotten the recommended Grammar by Michael Barnes, which has
>jump-started my own studies. I got through 3 or 4 of Haukur's lessons and
>they were fun, but there isn't really enough "substance" there for me.
>I've studied many other languages, so maybe I have an advantage there, and
>it doesn't intimidate me to jump into a text and translate what I can,
>without worrying about every single word. I greatly enjoyed the Faereyinga
>Saga posts, although I wasn't in a position at that time to jump in. Now
>that I've gotten through a bit of the Barnes, I think I could at least take
>a stab at picking nouns and pronouns out of a text. I suggested in my last
>post that perhaps others might want to join me in working on Bo�var Bjarki
>simply because it is the the first one recommended in the Barnes reader
>(and for those who don't have that, it is also in Gordon.) I don't really
>care what text we use, but I would like to see some kind of ongoing
>translation exercises offered on this list. Nobody ever replied though and
>said yeah I'd like to work on that too... So what'll it be? More
>Faereyinga Saga? A Loki story? Or I'd be perfectly happy to type in the
>first paragraph of the Bo�var Bjarki text. But let's do something, please?
>Laurel
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