Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480216440
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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An introduction to Old Norse, runes, Icelandic sagas, and the culture of the Vikings. The 15 graded lessons include vocabulary and grammar exercises, 35 readings, pronunciation, 15 maps, 45 illustrations, and 180 exercises. Journey through Viking Age Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Russia, and Byzantium with original Old Norse readings of Vikings, Norse mythology, heroes, sacred kingship, blood feuds, and daily life.
Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988176416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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2nd upgraded edition of Viking Language 1 in new smaller book size. Everything necessary to learn Old Norse, the language of the Iceland and Old Scandinavia. For beginner to advanced, graded lessons, saga readings, runes, myths, old Icelandic, grammar exercises, pronunciation, vocabulary and study guides. www.oldnorse.org and vikinglanguage.com
Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781481175265
Category : Old Norse language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Viking Language 2 immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, runic inscriptions. There is a large vocabulary and a full reference grammar.
Author: Jesse Byock
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.
Author: Eric Valentine Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : is
Pages : 492
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Author: Jesse Byock
Publisher: Viking Language Old Norse Icel
ISBN: 9781953947093
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Old Norse - Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction is a modern "primer" for learning to read the Icelandic sagas in their original language. This straightforward, easy-to-use primer requires no previous language knowledge. It is designed for self-learning, in-class use, and distance learning. Starting with the first page, students read Old Norse passages from Icelandic sagas as well as episodes from Scandinavian myth and medieval sources. The language and thought of the Viking Age come alive in these critical, Old Norse reading segments. Old Norse - Old Icelandic is divided into 17 short lessons. Each lesson opens with a passage in Old Icelandic drawn from sagas or mythological sources. Lessons focus on the grammar and vocabulary necessary to master the reading(s). In this way, original texts determine the instruction, and students master grammatical elements as they are needed. To speed the learning, each lesson contains a short vocabulary of new words and phrases, as well as practice exercises, reinforcing the grammatical explanations. For a free Answer Key to the exercises, visit our website: oldnorse.org.
Author: Matthew Townend
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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This is the first ever book-length study for the nature and significance of the linguistic contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English in Viking Age England. It investigates in a wide-ranging and systematic fashion a foundational but under-considered factor in the history and culture of the Vikings in England. The subject is important for late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age history; for language and literature in the late Anglo-Saxon period; and for the history and development of the English language. The work's primary focus is on Anglo-Norse language contact, with a particular emphasis on the question of possible mutual intelligibility between speakers of the two languages; but since language contact is an emphatically sociolinguistic phenomenon, the work's methodology combines linguistic, literary and historical approaches, and draws for its evidence on texts in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, and other forms of linguistic and onomastic material
Author: Michael P. Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old Norse language
Languages : is
Pages : 182
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Author: John Geipel
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Jesse Byock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988176409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old Icelandic is a new volume in the Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series. A workbook of 17 lessons designed for those who want to learn or sharpen their skills in Old Norse with innovative exercises, word games, and map questions. With a full vocabulary and a free Answer Key at oldnorse.org. It also contains Old Norse readings drawn from the Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok (recounting Ragnar's attack on England and his death in the snake pit) and mythic passages from The Prose Edda describing a journey of the Norse gods, the great dragon ́s treasure, and the magical ring of the dwarves. Supplementary Exercises master Old Norse.
