Joseph I thoroughly agree, in my message to Randall Wolfshield - approx the 2nd October, it was sent in reply to Randall's query on the best books to obtain for the instruction on Old Norse, when I answered Randall I recommended the books by Michael Barnes and his Colleague Anthony Faulkes who contributed a great deal to them.
If you are in the UK you can always obtain them through the University College London, and get them at a discount if you are a member of the Viking Society for Northern Research
 
Here are my comments, excuse me repeating myself but I feel really strongly about them for the Value that they represent and I do not know any wealthy students
 
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The Books are by Michael Barnes and Anthony Faulkes, Professor Barnes' knowledge of Old Norse is outstanding, as indeed is that of his colleague.
The books are in three Volumes soft cover, and doubtless a Dictionary (Recommend Zoega)
of course you will find there are many people still devoted to E V Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse, but the Viking Society's books have the edge to my mind, Biased - oh Yes but not I think without reason "unQuote
Wish you well
Patricia
New Comment - they are User Friendly to a great degree
for friends in America try Amazon.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Bloch
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] New person saying hello

Hi Josh,

I hardly post here myself, but I did want to mention that I found the Gordon book to be similarly difficult.

Fortunately, Michael Barnes released a three-volume "New Introduction to Old Norse", issued by the Viking Society for Northern Research over in the UK. I got mine through ASU:

http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications/mrts/vsnr.html

I find it much more approachable than the Gordon.

Hope that helps!

Joseph

On 10/14/05, Josh Teeters <joshuateeters@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself. I just joined the group a few days ago.

As can probably be guessed from my email address, my name's Josh. I'm highly interested in medieval history, as well as languages. I've been learning German off and on for a few years.

I bought E.V. Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse a few years ago. Upon looking in it, however, I was overwhelmed. I was used to slightly more 'structured' language learning books. I wasn't acquainted with being given a terse grammar and thrown into full texts. :)

So, I put it away. It's been on my bookshelf ever since. A few days ago, for some reason or another, I searched for Old Norse, and came across the online course for beginners. This in turn led me to this group.

I'm looking forward to going through the online lessons. They seem a bit more graded than Mr. Gordon's book. :)

How would you all recommend I proceed? Go through the lessons online and then start with Gordon's book? Or is there a middle-ground stepping stone that I should use before moving from the online course to the book?

Any and all advice is highly appreciated. :)

Thanks.


Best regards,
Josh


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