There is a thread here on Old Norse Net about horse names: http://lists.mun.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0411b&L=onn#11 Llama Nom ... I rather...
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llama_nom
Dec 11, 2004 2:01 pm
Hi Terje, Thanks for that. I'm going to look more carefully at pronouns from now on! Even in Auðun, kings vary in their usage, sometimes calling themselves...
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llama_nom
Dec 11, 2004 2:02 pm
A possible early example. In Völundarkviða the queen seems to address Níðuðr first in the plural: sníðið ér hann sina magni ok setið ér hann...
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llama_nom
Dec 11, 2004 2:02 pm
... If anyone else is interested, I think I just found a sample of that: http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/literature/text/literature.h tm#Spelling ...
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llama_nom
Dec 13, 2004 1:23 pm
In fact, Niðuðr starts off talking about "our gold" and "our land", although he also says "far, I think, is our land". The queen then addresses him in the...
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Stephen Fryer
hunmanby2001
Dec 14, 2004 12:38 pm
I thought people might like to take a small break from the strain of translation http://web.archive.org/web/20011222150756/http://www.iceland.org/eng01.html --...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Dec 14, 2004 1:36 pm
Totally Brilliant Stephen, very good indeed, more please, Patricia ... From: Stephen Fryer To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004...
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riddlemaster99
Dec 16, 2004 8:46 pm
Dia daoibh again, Thank you so very much for the information on runes... I have another question. How would one go about pronouncing the 'y' in norse (like in...
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llama_nom
Dec 17, 2004 4:49 pm
Hi Riddlemaster, Always a vowel, I think--certainly in normalised spelling. Have a look at the Norse-Course Homepage: http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ (It's...
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Lewis, Raymond J.
i3eman
Dec 27, 2004 11:34 pm
Hello Norse Course Folks: My daughter and I finished the norse course lessons last year and decided to move on to Modern Icelandic. However, we have had...
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Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102
Dec 28, 2004 7:49 pm
Hello Raymond, Have you tried the new teach yourself Icelandic course available on the net? Have a look at www.icelandic.hi.is and see what you think. It's...
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mahub@...
drdolittle38
Dec 29, 2004 2:49 pm
I would like to start sending messages on the norse_course egroup...
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llama_nom
Dec 29, 2004 2:49 pm
Hello Raymond, There is a Yahoo Group devoted to studying modern Icelandic, which has some useful links, including the one Sarah mentioned: ...
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Angela
fagan883
Dec 29, 2004 10:35 pm
Okay, I'm brand new to the Norse Course (Just started Lesson 2) and I have a question so please forgive my ignorance. I was looking through some of the...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Dec 30, 2004 1:18 am
... Excellent question. These sentences actually _are_ ambiguous. In normal prose we'd expect the subject to come first. Most of the time we'd be able to see...
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Angela
fagan883
Dec 30, 2004 2:14 am
... Okay, cool. Thanks for the quick answer, it really helps. Angela...
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allison
drdolittle38
Dec 30, 2004 3:24 pm
Just started Old Norse for beginner lessons and have already run into a question... in lesson 1 it asks to locate and determine what case pronouns are in......
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Sean Larabee
sanlarabee
Jan 1, 2005 2:21 pm
Hello all, Cool group! I have a very deep interest in learning Old Norse but do not know where to start. I cannot seem to reach the Homepage. Is there any mp3s...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 1, 2005 2:47 pm
Saell Sean, Given a starting point you learn, right, you study, okay = to my mind you are already a scholar I tried to get http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 1, 2005 6:41 pm
I have got back to the Yahoo group and left a message for the Moderator lets us wait and see what happens, regret cannot do more Patricia ... From: Sean...
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hunmanby2001
Jan 2, 2005 12:27 am
... your starting point but I got a 404 - error message, It worked for me just now. Try again? Stephen Fryer...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 2, 2005 3:48 am
Yeee Haaa it is fixed, thank you love I'm PLeased because it was not workin when I last tried Hope (?) Sean (?) is reading this, well done Patricia ... From:...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins@...
Jan 2, 2005 3:11 pm
Greetings Old Norse Group Happy New Year. I have worked through the lessons on the site which are really good and much appreciated. I am now starting on E.V....
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Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102
Jan 4, 2005 12:57 am
Hello Andy! Welcome to the group. Have you tried Barnes' A New Introduction to Old Norse ISBN 0 903521 45 8? It also comes with an accompanying Reader and...
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James R. Johnson
modean2525
Jan 4, 2005 2:20 pm
Hello, There's been some discussion on the wikipedia mailing list about the possibility of an Old Norse Wikipedia - a free-content, user-editable encyclopedia...
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mona striewe
mona@...
Jan 4, 2005 2:23 pm
hi there, an old norse textbook for english-speaking people i can wholeheartedly recommend ist this: sigrid valfells / james e. cathey: old icelandic - an...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jan 4, 2005 3:00 pm
Heill, James. I'm not quite sure what the point of an Old Norse Wikipedia would be :) Presumably it would mostly be useful as an exercise in writing the...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 4, 2005 5:37 pm
Hello Mona. I have found but one copy and £191.95 is being asked for it used and in "good" condition, do you hold the opinion that this is justified, I would...
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mona striewe
mona@...
Jan 4, 2005 6:46 pm
heavens! i would *never* pay so much for a book, i just couldn't afford it. i did not realise the book is out of print or whatever. i myself found it in our...
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Stephen Fryer
hunmanby2001
Jan 4, 2005 8:45 pm
... This is out of print and there don't seem to be any used copies available anywhere at the moment. -- Stephen Fryer Lund Computer Services ...
