I just finished working through the six lessons this week and I enjoyed them very much.  I especially appreciate the way the authors managed to come up with interesting, sometimes humorous, connected texts given the limits in vocabulary and grammatical structures.  The amount of new vocabulary per lesson was just right (I often find the amount of new vocabulary excessive in reading-oriented language lessons--an example of what I mean is the series on the University of Texas Indo-European languages web site), thanks mainly to the cognates that I recognized from English and Yiddish.   At the same time, I've also tried to learn some modern Icelandic, mainly through a text and audio course in the "Teach Yourself" series.

 

I'm finding that I can now make out a lot of texts like Snorri's "Prologue" to the Prose Edda (especially when I have a translation handy!).  But I wonder what a good next step in learning Old Norse might be (I wish there were more materials like these lessons, for Old Norse and for other languages!).

 

Lee