thanks for your help. i was already think of going through the "old
norse for beginners" site lessons. now that you recomended it, i'll go
through them for sure!!! thanks for your other advices as well: i'll
give a look on the books you've refered here. about the "A Concise
Dictionary of Old Icelandic" by Geir T. Zoëga, N thomsen as made a pdf
version and i've downloaded it. thanks, once more, for your help. i've
help me a lot!
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
>
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "jay_py012" <jay_py012@> wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i'm new around here but i'm very enthusiastic with learning old norse.
> > so, can you give some tips that may help my learning? i'd apreciate
> > any kind of help.
> >
> > thanks in advance.
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> The Norse Course lessons are a great place to start especially if
> you're new to learning languages, and you don't need to know lots of
> linguistics jargon to understand them [
> http://www.hi.is/%7Ehaukurth/norse/ ]. Old Norse Online is another
> course of lessons, and you can also use the grammar for reference [
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html ]. It has
> a bit more jargon, but it's quite thorough, and each chapter has a
> text with a translation and detailed notes explaining the grammatical
> function and meaning of each word.
>
> You might find some other useful links in this list here [
> http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/norselinks.htm ], especially the
> beginners section [ http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/norselinks.htm#beg
> ]. It's also worth looking at the Norse Course Yahoo Group website
> links page [ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/links ].
> And at Kiyo's Norse links [
> http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/%7Ekyamazak/index.html ].
>
> The Viking Society is a good source of books, including "A New
> Introduction to Old Norse".
>
> http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/
> UK orders: http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/publications.htm
> US orders: http://asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications/mrts/vsnr.html
>
> An older book, E.V. Gordon: An Introduction to Old Norse, is also well
> worth having [
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Old_Norse ], although
> the grammar is quite compact and it can be a bit daunting for complete
> beginners. The reading selections from this book are now online here [
> http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/tmp/oi_gordon_taylor_corpus.html ], without
> the notes or glossary.
>
> There are a few old text books (19th century, early 20th) on places
> like Google Books and Project Gutemberg (see those links pages), but
> they tend to assume that you already know traditional grammar
> terminology, such as would be used for teaching Latin in schools in
> those days. But with the internet it's easy enough to look terms up,
> and you can always ask questions on the Norse Course forum here.
>
> A convenient student dictionary for Old Norse prose is A Concise
> Dictionary of Old Icelandic, by Geir T. Zoëga (1910) [
> http://norse.ulver.com/ondict/zoega/ ], online here and elsewhere
> (although at the moment I find this the most convenient place to check
> it online), which is an abridgement of An Icelandic-English
> Dictionary, based on the work of Richard Cleasby, enlarged and
> completed by Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) [
>
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ekurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html#images%20
> ]. Also online and searchable is Johann Fritzner's Ordbog over Det
> gamle norske Sprog (2nd. ed. 188696) [
> http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275 ].
>
> This is a great place for poetry [ http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/ ].
> Best to start on the prose, but if you want a taste of what lies in
> store...
>
> And finally, here's a page that has advice about configuring your
> keyboard so you can type the special Icelandic letters þ, ð, æ, ö and
> the vowels with acute accents, á, é, í, ó, ú [
>
http://www.mentalcode.com/nl/islenska/kbd.page?return=%2Fnl%2Fislenska%2Findex.page%23kbd
> ]. If you ever find a page on the internet that ought to be displaying
> Icelandic characters but isn't, try switching the CHARACTER ENCODING
> in the VIEW MENU between Western (ISO-8859-1) and Unicode (UTF-8).
>
> Hope you find something of use in amongst that lot. Good luck!
>
> Lama Nom
>