Well if old norse is a hobby for you, you should be able to read and understand a got part of the sags. Still the eddas is too hard becuase it is very poetic and relies very much on the grammar.

but if you take the lessons and understand it you should be able to read sagas with the help of a dictionary :b

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <Scat@...> wrote:
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> I had a large Old Norse dictionary and an Old Norse grammar and no
> background in Old Norse
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> when I tackled Egil Skallagrimsonnar: it was fun.
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> From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [mailto:norse_course@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Edgar Widlund
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:46 PM
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [norse_course] Old Norse grammar
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I need some advice and information of ON grammar.I am beginning lesson 8 in
> the Norse course.
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> So far, I have not seen where the course covers topics like past tense of
> verbs,subjunctive tense,
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> feminine nouns,etc.Is there some information about topics like the foregoing
> in a concise manner available like a book on topics not covered in the 9
> lessons in the course?
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> After being made aware of the numerous declensions, of various nouns,for
> instance;It seems all these
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> different declensions and endings require a vast vocabulary in order to
> translate the sagas,or Old Norse
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> literature fairly accurate.This may appear a stupid question but how does
> one deal with the incredible
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> amount of all this information ? I guess I can assume a lot of looking up
> for all these words,items is of course necessary.To summarize, I wonder how
> much of a vocabulary one should have before reading tON literature?
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> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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> Ed Widlund
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