The translations here are probably one of the best ways to put your knowledge into practice.

I would also suggest even another course for you to broaden your studies: "Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course", by Sigrid Valfells and James E. Cathey (Oxford University Press, 1981). 35 grammar lessons with drills, translations exercises (with texts from the sagas), keys to both drills and translations, and a glossary. It's been very helpful to me. Can't recommend this book enough. I just love it.


Gabriel

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Edgar Widlund <edgarwidlund@...> wrote:

 

Hi,

 

As a new member I have completed the basic 9 lesson course in Old Norse.There is another more

detailed course in On Line Old Norse which I have been studying and I saw that this goes into

much more details and covers a wide range of grammar such as various types of nouns(male,female,neuter).Also the course explains the concepts of possesive pronous,strong and weak v

verbs, subjunctive tense,past and present,and a wide variety of  other basic concepts.I don't have the knowledge and experience as you folks but now it seems one should  start to get involved in the

translations and I thought the tattuinardoela saga might be a good place to start since it is 5 pages

long.

 

In summary,I think or (hope) I have enough familiarity with a fairly considerable broad base of the

grammar to get my feet wet.One can't just keep memorizing and studying without using the knowledge in practical applications.

 

Any advisory suggestions would be appreciated.

 

 

 

                                                                  
                                                                      Edgar