From: jay_py012
Message: 9040
Date: 2008-03-05
--- 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
>