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Dear Haukurth:

I do not want to appear ungrateful - but I'm not sure what to do about
the font problem.
A few examples:

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The nominative and accusative singular masculine of the declined
ordinals are as follows.

nom. einn tveir íºSí½² fj󲩲
acc. einn tvá   íºSíº¡ fj󲡍
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tveir í¹-í¹²a = two of them
tveir manna Hauks = two of Haukr's men
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H鲠er EINN ma𲮍
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íºSí½² = three
fj󲩲 = four
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á´´a = eight
níµ = nine
tíµ = ten
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vᮤr = bad (more or less same as 'illr')

EXERCISES

1. Translate the following.

Hé² eru tveir menn. Þ¥ir heita Ӭᦲ ok Eirí«².
Er Ӭᦲ helgr mað² ¯k gó°² mjí¹®í°¥n Eirí«² er bæ°©
vᮤr ok illr. Er Eirí«² s鲠Ӭᦠvill hann hann vega.
Eirí«² hefir tíµ menn en Ӭᦲ fj󲡮 Ӭᦲ vegr tváSmanna Eirí«³. Menn
Eirí«³ vega einn manna Ӭᦳ. Nò ¶©lja
sumir flíµªí± íºsí½ at í¹-í¹² eru ragir. Tveir manna Eirí«³
flíµªí±® Þ¡ hefir Eirí«² sex menn en Ӭᦲ íºSíº¡.

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... Yes - we get the idea.

You may not have a problem understanding what is written here - but
it is completly incomprehensible to me. This is, as you know, a common
problem - which will be immediately fixed when Bill Gates moves to Iceland.

There is a reasonably simple solution to the problem (until Bill finally
gets off his butt). We can very easily write text in an html document. Of
course, many of us already know this and a couple people have made rather
excellent use of it while creating the original Norse course. I will
include, in the attachment below, instructions on how to do this (for those
who don't know). Simply add the document as an attachment to your mail -
and we can all read it clearly (except for the conspired against Mac users).
Included is a template. Just copy the template and start typing using the
described escape strings for the offending characters.

Raymond