Unfortunately I can't answer your question..

But I must say, your English is fantastic.

I have to take the bus to work, and I only wish some of those people (who are English) could speak it half as well as you.

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Isabelle Brisset <rydia_29@...> wrote:
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> Hi everyone!
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> I am currently doing an essay on Old Icelandic or Old Norse, and I was wondering : what is the difference between the two of them?
> I read that Old Icelandic is a dialect from Old Norse, and that the majority of the literature was written in Old Icelandic (in Introduction to Old Norse, by Gordon).
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> Is the Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson, written in Old Icelandic or Old Norse? Are these two languages very similar?
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> I am confused, because it sometimes seems that authors uses Old Norse and Old Icelandic as synonyms...
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> Thank you for your help! (And sorry if my english is bad, it is not my first language!)
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> Isabelle
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