Hi Eliot,
I think it would be great if you posted mysterious words that you can't find
in the dictionary because of the endings due to declensions, etc. I have
not managed to memorize the declensions - as is probably obvious. It would
help me, I think, to try to figure out what the nominative case or the verb
itself would be if you posted your fishy ones.
I have a good background in German - having lived there 9 years and having
attended the (now) Darmstadt University (then TH Darmstadt) as a German Lit.
major - so that helped a lot. I started with the online yahoogroup course
and a new paperback copy (available from Amazon) of the Zoega dictionary -
which has a couple of strips of duct tape to hold it together - plus I have
Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse which I used a lot at first, but rarely
look at now.
At first it took almost an hour to look up nearly every word. Now it's more
like 15- 20 minutes - - although clearly I could put more time into it. I
go thru and underline the words I am not sure of, try to find them first in
Zoega, but turn to the online Cleasby Zigfusson if I can't find them.