A mailing list for a course in Old Norse for beginners. The course material is contained at the course's homepage (below).
Note! This is not a complete course and there is no guarantee that it will ever be completed.
This is also a general list for students of Old Norse to exchange information and ideas. Everything regarding the Old Norse language is on topic here. You are welcome to post your own ponderings, questions, translation problems et cetera.
This is exclusively a language group. There are no religious or political strings attached.
We have come to the end of Njall's Saga. We will begin the Laxdaela Saga January 25, 2010. Thanks to Haukur, Llama Nom, Brian, Alan, Patricia and all others
Languages are quirky things and very often show redundancy. (Just think of all the semantic redundancy in a language that inflects, say, adjectives for gender,
... Both past tense, I think. Vowel length is hardly ever marked consistently in the manuscripts. Editors who use more archaic normalised spelling give the