[Multilingual Monday] The Icelandic Chronicles

[aadroma]

So a couple of weeks ago, Carl out of the blue came up to me and said, "I was looking at your bookshelf

Comments

[darkphuque]

Jeff studied Icelandic and sez its a proto-norwegian. He said that the western dialects of Norwegian are very close. Maybe Carl should start with Norwegian....

[vik_thor]

love the fact that he's wanting to learn Icelandic to read the Sagas in the original!

(The reason I took German in college, was because Peter Schilling and Nena had German language songs, and I wanted to learn what was lost in translation.)

[pne]

If he has LJ, I can suggest learn-nordic. He'll need to join the community to see many of the members-only resource posts. (Partly because some of the resources are a bit "grey".)

[theotherqpc]

learn_icelandic
i don't remember much, but i can try being a language partner, and i have lots of icelandic music to share.
i will say, though, that i recently read a snippet from an Old Norse text and was able to understand it just fine with my knowledge of Modern Icelandic.

[semimarina]

I love the Volsunga Saga--three cheers for Carl! I would so like to read the Brunhilda's rune speech in old Icelandic.