Good luck, og til lykke, Kenneth.
I went to graduate school at the University of Texas (aerospace engineering) between 1978 and 1983.
I remember seeing an Old Swedish reader in the library there,
and copying the mini-dictionary in the back of the book.
Right now, my notebook is in storage,
and I wish I could remember the author/editor/publisher of that reader.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
In a message dated 10/12/2004 10:39:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kenneth Christensen <
ragnarkraki@...> writes:
>Thank you very much. I'm planning on transfering to UCR or UCLA. Both have excelent Germanic studies programs. I happen to be in Jr. College as a Germanic Studies major.
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>Kenneth
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>akoddsson <konrad_oddsson@...> wrote:
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>--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Christensen
><ragnarkraki@...> wrote:
>> Could any of you recomend any Old Dansk dictionaries to me. I
>can't find one anywhere.
>
>I recall that I have seen one. Go to the major universities and ask,
>especially the ones which have big Germanic linguistics departments.
>I have also seen (held in my hand and examined) and Old Swedish one.
>I also recall hearing about a Swedish one online, but have not seen
>it myself. I once saved and printed a short Old Gutnish dictionary
>that I found online. The East Norse branch had a lot more variation
>than the West Norse. In the East we talk about related languages, in
>the West about one tongue. The reason is that, in linguistic terms,
>Old Norwegian (especially western), Old Icelandic and Old Faroese are
>the same language, as Norse in Greenland, Shetlands, etc. would also
>have been. The differences were so insignificant that only the most
>specialized scholars are even interested in them. They are extremely
>minor dialect-variations that hardly mattered when the langauge was
>still universal in the West. However, you will see some substantial
>difference between the Eastern branches, as well as between any one
>of them and the West, even if they were still largely intelligible to
>one another - in other words, even if they were still 'common' Norse
>and not yet 'fully' separate languages, like Chinese and German ;)
>Good luck with your search.
>
>Konrad
>
>> Kenneth
>>
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