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Produced by: Sean Crist and Ben Crowder
AN ICELANDIC PRIMER
With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary
SECOND EDITION
The texts are intended to be as easy, interesting, and representative as possible. With such a language, and such a master of it as Snorri to choose from, this combination is not difficult to realise. The beginner is indeed to be envied who makes his first acquaintance with the splendid mythological tales of the North, told in an absolutely perfect style. As the death of Olaf Tryggvason is given in the Reader only from the longer recension of the Heimskringla, I have been able to give the shorter text, which is admirably suited for the purposes of this book. The story of Au?un is not only a beautiful one in itself, but, together with the preceding piece, gives a vivid idea of the Norse ideal of the kingly character, which was the foundation of their whole political system. As the Reader does not include poetry , I have added one of the finest of the Eddaic poems, which is at the same time freest from obscurity and corruption--the song of Thor's quest of his hammer.
In conclusion, it is almost superfluous to say that this book makes no pretension to originality of any kind. If it contributes towards restoring to Englishmen that precious heritage--the old language and literature of Iceland--which our miserably narrow scheme of education has hitherto defrauded them of, it will have fulfilled its purpose.
HENRY SWEET London, February, 1886
GRAMMAR
PRONUNCIATION
Vowels
close : e ? o ? ? oe open : ? ae ? - ?? -
Consonants
Stress
PHONOLOGY
Vowels
Mutation
Fracture
Gradation
Other changes
Consonants
INFLECTIONS
Nouns
Strong Masculines
a-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
i-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
u-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
r-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
Strong Neuters
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
Strong Feminines
ar-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
ir-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
r-plurals
SINGULAR PLURAL
SINGULAR PLURAL
Weak Masculines
SINGULAR PLURAL
Weak Neuters
SINGULAR PLURAL
Weak Feminines
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