A Grammar of the Icelandic Or Old Norse (1843)

An Icelandic-English dictionary is based on the MS. collections of the late Richard Cleasby. Enlarged and completed by G. Vigfusson. With an introduction and life of Richard Cleasby by G. Webbe Desent.

Oxford University Press, 2004. - 318 p. This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language and the author is able to present a comprehensive analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He supports his analyses with examples taken fr...

Gordon E.V. , Taylor A.R. An Introduction to Old Norse. - Oxford Clarendon Press, 1981. - 498 p. This is a very rich book with a great reputation, but somewhat difficult to work with because of its format. Personally, I have not finished it, mainly because I needed a more extensive grammar. "An Introduction to Old Norse is an English textbook written by E.V. Gordon and first published in 1927 in Oxford at the Clarendon Press. It has been repri...

Cornell University Press, 2009. - 347 p. Introduction. - Christian Form and Christian Meaning in Halld?rs ??ttr. - Ogmundar ??ttr dytts ok Gunnars helmings: Unity and Literary Relations. - The Masterbuilder Tale in Snorri’s Edda and Two Sagas. - Theme and Genre in Some ?slendinga ??ttir. - Gu?r?narbr?g? and the Saxon Lay of Grimhild’s Perfidy. - The King in Disguise: An International Popular Tale in Two Old Icelandic Adaptations. - Satire and t...

Valfells S. , Cathey J.E. Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course. - Oxford University Press, 1981. - 404 p. Introduction There are, generally speaking, two types of students of Old Icelandic: those who are interested primarily as linguists and those interested as literary scholars. Old Icelandic is designed to serve the needs of both. Their needs, however, are—to a degrees— incompatible. But the groundwork for either scholar is the language itse...