<div><font color="#000000">Old Norse for Beginners</font></div>
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<div><u><font color="#810081"><a href="http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/">http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/</a></font></u><a href="http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/"></a></div>
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<div>Maybe this will be of some interest/assistance, particularly with the rules of spelling/pronunciation. </div>
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<div>Histories of Iceland would be useful....as would some of the old Sagas. If you go that route, I would suggest looking first at the Vinlandsaga, since that details an historical event, and names are more likely to be accurate than in the more fantastic works like the Volsungasaga (although Heimskringla and other sagas by Snorri Sturlusson seem pretty level-headed when it comes to period names).</div>
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<div>Byock, Jesse; <i><a class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=A4S6Bnw3HnkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power</font></a></i>. University of California Press (1988) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520069544"><font color="#002bb8">ISBN 0-520-06954-4</font></a> <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0226526801"><font color="#002bb8">ISBN 0-226-52680-1</font></a> </div>
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<div>The site <a href="http://www.sagnanet.is/">http://www.sagnanet.is/</a> comes with an English translation. </div>
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<div>Also try <a href="http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/">http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/</a></div>
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<div>A few years ago, I designed a course on Icelandic sagas that I never got to teach. For what it's worth, I have the required readings list for that class right here (the first two are based on mythology and not on history; keep that in mind):</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology</span></b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Saga of the Volsungs</span></b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Jesse+Byock" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Jesse+Byock"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Jesse Byock (Translator)</span></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Njal's Saga</span></b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The Vinland Sagas: </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The Norse Discovery of America</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Magnus+Magnusson" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Magnus+Magnusson"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Magnus Magnusson (Translator), </span><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Hermann+Palsson" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Hermann+Palsson"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Hermann Palsson (Translator)</span></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Snorri+Sturluson" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Snorri+Sturluson"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Snorri Sturluson, </span><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Paulsson+Herman" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Paulsson+Herman"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Paulsson Herman, </span><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Hermann+Palsson" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Hermann+Palsson"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Hermann Palsson (Translator), </span><a title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Magnus+Magnusson" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&ath=Magnus+Magnusson"></a><span class="apple-style-span">Magnus Magnusson (Translator)</span></span></p>
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<div>Happy browsing!</div>
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<div>Pax et bonum,</div>
<div>DT+LF</div>
<div>Detlef von Marburg<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Keely Disman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdisman@gmail.com">kdisman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I am trying to help Fred work on his persona. He knows he is interested in Norse/Viking somewhere around 10th or 11th century. The problem we are running into is figuring out a name! He wants something which will be fairly easy for him to spell and pronounce. We've come across a few possibilities that he likes, but neither of us is absolutely certain about pronunciation. Does anyone know some good resources for pronunciation of Old Norse names? My Old English is very rusty and I'm actually unfamiliar with how close the pronunciations between these two languages are. Any help with this project would be appreciated!</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>He has told you, O mortal, what is good; <br>and what does the LORD require of you <br>but to do justice, and to love kindness, <br>and to walk humbly with your God?<br>
--Micah 6:8<br>