<<It's does not seem to make any sense that there are so many texts
in old Norse, such a vast corpus, yet it seems to be extremely hard
to find a good text linguistics book, or a structural (descriptive)
grammar of old Norse. other languages, about the same regarding corpus
size, (e.g Coptic)have a vast amount of linguistic literature. yet old-
Norse seems to me, have been ignored for some reason. strange.
can someone send over some bibliography (whatever language)?
perhaps there is something from the linguistic circle of Copenhagen?>>

I sympathize. Mabye part of the problem is that Old Norse is usually
studied as part of early Germanic. I came to Germanic with a moderately
good background in IndoEuropean studies, but still found it rather confusing
at first. Roger Lass's book <Old English: A Historical and Linguistic
Companion> was helpful to me in getting out of the primer stage and into
an understanding of more far-reaching structural features. But Lass's
book only cites Old Norse in support of his general picture of Old English
and early Germanic. But after studying Lass it is not difficult to understand
(generally) the workings of Old Norse.

There must be good studies of "issues" in the historical grammar of Norse,
but I have never seen a referene to a real structural grammar of Old
Norse. Gordon is good for the facts but very conventional.

Gazariah