Thank you Patricia!

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Bob
> I have been using "A New Introduction to Old Norse" by Michael

Barnes and

> Anthony Faulkes
> You get three books - Grammar - Glossary - and Reader, they are user
> friendly and I would
> not be without them.
> I find in general the online Dictionaries that have been

recommended through

> out
> this online study are about the best - they are free which is an

added

> attraction.
> But for Modern Icelandic there is "Teach yourself Icelandic" by

Hildur

> Jonsdottir, that's
> the one with the CD then another very good one is "Colloquial

Icelandic" by

> Daisy L. Neijmann.
> For the Old Norse - Zoega is a really good dictionary - because it

is not so

> prohibitively expensive as is CV - which is on-line any way but

for a small

> compact and useful dictionary of Modern Icelandic - you could

consider the

> one in the Hippocrene Concise Dictionary series and that is the

work of

> Arnold R. Taylor.
> I hope that you will find something to suit you, if you do not

find the

> stuff you want in W H Smith or other bookstore - Amazon will help -

I am

> always extolling Amazon - people think I own shares - I do not !!!

but they

> are very good servants of mine
> Kveðja
> Patricia
>
>