Hello, All. My name is Rose, I'm 56, I live
in rural upstate New York. I have embarked on a study of the runes and it
has kindled an interest in Old Norse, especially for the reading of poems,
eddas, etc.
QUESTIONS: Other than learning Old Norse, I
would also like to learn a living language that is as close to Old Norse as
possible. What would that language would be? And are there any
online resources for learning it? Would it be Icelandic, Norwegian,
Finnish?
My thinking is that even though Old Norse is no
longer spoken, it must still bear at least a faint resemblance to some extant
language akin to it; for example, as Italian is to Latin, perhaps.
This is all very new to me as I have never studied
a language on my own. Latin and Spanish in high school, but that was
alotta presidents ago.......
Thanks,
Rose