Old Norse e-texts

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The Elder Edda seems to be completed since I last visited here:

http://etext.old.no/

in Old Icelandic.

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Wow…

I’ll bet that would be really cool if I spoke Old Icelandic. :confused:

Put that on my list of languages to learn next century.

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Old Norse (which Old Icelandic is sometimes called). The lessons are excellent for beginners.

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Wow, thanks!

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Thanks a lot! This site is great (especially if you love Tolkien).

Völuspá :

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5 Veggr ok Gandálfr,
Vindálfr, Þorinn,
Þrár ok Þráinn,
Þekkr, Litr ok Vitr,
Nýr ok Nýráðr,
nú hefi ek dverga,
Reginn ok Ráðsviðr,
rétt um talða.

That whole poem is full of other names (especially Dwarf ones), which Tolkien used. It’s great to see where he got his ideas and names from :smiley: .

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I don’t know all that much about Tolkien (he didn’t write a book about himself, the way Lewis did, that I know of), but I know that C. S. Lewis absolutely loved the old Scandinavian/Norse legends and mythologies.

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Wow my thanks too, annis!
That was just what I was going to ask for. :smiley:
Because I’ve just discovered that the Old Norse is quite different from Old English of Beowulf.

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Yes, you can see many of the dwarf names in “The Hobbit”. In another site that provides the English translation of the Poetic Edda, Gandalf is said to mean a “magical elf(dwarf)” and somewhere else it is said to be “staff(wand?) elf”(elf and dwarf are used interchangeably).

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http://has55.www9.50megs.com/OldIcel/LearningOldNorse.html

Here is a bunch of links and resources. There is a link to a scanned Old Icelandic dictionary. There should be a link to a new Old norse grammar book by Barnes. Gordon is great, but the more the merrier. :slight_smile: You can’t really order it through amazon, but amazon UK has it. You have to actually order it through this university if you live in the US: http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/mrts/

Don’t bother trying to find it in that website you have to email them and ask for it. And a pretty good price too! This was part of the reply that I got:

Yes, we have it, and for $15 plus $3 shipping I can let you have a copy. Interested? BTW, there are two other volumes, and if you want all three I can sell them to you at a discount for $30 plus $7 shipping. No smeghead should be without them (I have two sets in fact). > :slight_smile:

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It’s great! Especially that OI dictionary. I’ve bound the pictures into a PDF file. Now, only I have is to print and bind it. :smiley: