Hi there, Lee,

After learning the basics, I found moved on to some of the texts
published by the Viking Society [
http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/ ]. Most of them are available online
these days [ http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/ ].

Llama Nom



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Lee Goldberg <leybl_goldberg@...>
wrote:

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> 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
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