norse_course : A study group in the Old Norse language

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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.

Everyone is welcome.

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Njall end - - Grace's translation Nú er að segja frá Flosa að hann gengur upp og tekur lík Kols og býr um og gefur fé Now is to tell of Flosi that he goes up and takes Kol's body and Posted - Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:01 pm	Fred and Grace Hatton fredgrace Offline Send Email
Njall final chapter 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 Posted - Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:49 pm	Fred and Grace Hatton fredgrace Offline Send Email
Re: Question re sjálfr 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, Posted - Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:01 pm	llama_nom Offline Send Email
Re: Njall 157 end + beginning 158 -- Brjáns þýðing ... Both past tense, I think. Vowel length is hardly ever marked consistently in the manuscripts. Editors who use more archaic normalised spelling give the Posted - Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:47 pm	llama_nom Offline Send Email
Question re sjálfr I am confused by the use of the word sjálfr. In Guðlaugsson and Þorgeirsson, the chapter on reflexive pronouns has in an exercise the sentence, 'The Posted - Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:11 pm	CalecM@... calecmaclean Offline Send Email
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