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Honum þótti
Let's carry on reading Íslendingabók. Chapter 1 tells us about the early colonization of Iceland from Norway. Our latest extensive reading effort has…
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Germanic dental suffix
The Old Norse preterite and past participle of weak verbs is formed using a dental suffix, a feature undoubtedly inherited from Proto-Germanic. (Ringe…
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Old Norse weak verbs and dental suffix
We recently evoked at length the coexistence, in Old Norse as well as across the Germanic languages, of weak and strong verbs. Observing the conjugation…
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Reading Íslendingabók like a machine (2)
A hearty piece of Old Norse for today. Ingólfr hét maðr nórrænn, er sannliga er sagt, at færi fyrst þaðan til Íslands, þá er Haraldr inn hárfagri var…
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Old Norse weak and strong verbs
In other places, we started from the sagas and inferred the grammar. In the present piece, which takes on a real textbook feel, we lay down the…
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Reading Íslendingabók like a machine (1)
Here, you shall practice extensive reading. In other places, for example here or there, we draw on small texts from the sagas to infer together elements…
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Old Norse weak verbs
We began our study of Íslendingabók with some basic grammar, about verbs in Old Norse. Let's practice with a short exercise. We've said that the…
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Old Norse syntax
We'll start with a short passage from Íslendingabók, meant to be written originally by Ari Þorgilsson (1067/1068 - 1148), who is considered Iceland's…
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