Saell og blessadur, Gabriel.
I,
too, have Valfells's and Cathey's textbook ---- bought my copy in
1982.
When I took Old Norse at the University of Texas
at Austin a year later,
I thought we would use it, but
the textbook was Gordon's.
Paul Hansen
To: norse_course@ yahoogroups. com
From:
gobrum@... com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:55:24 -0300
Subject: Re:
[norse_course] Advice for beginners
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@ rocketmail. com>
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
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