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>Kvedjur til rialtofolksins fra brynhildi kormaks dottur.
Bjalfi Thordar sonr kvedir ther vel.

>Good gentles, one of the requests I get most often has to do with good texts
>for the selfteaching of (modern) Icelandic--that language being as close as we
>can come nowadays to what Viking Age types would have spoken.

A good learning resource for *OLD* Norse is Sigrid Valfells and James
Cathay, "An Introduction to Old Icelandic".  It has a lot of short 
chapters, each with a page or two of drills, so it ought to be usable
as a self-taught coursebook.  (I think it also has a corretion key
in the back... I used it in a class with a teacher, and that was about
seven years ago, so my memory is spotty.)  The focus is primarily on
reading, but in a self-taught course you won't develop good pronuncia-
tion anyway.

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 | > | |\\ | \ |/  |   David Greenebaum/University of California/Berkeley, CA
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