Viking Language 1 Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas - Softcover

Byock, Jesse L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480216445 ISBN 13: 9781480216440

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

“Viking Language 1 - Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas” 2nd upgraded edition. Everything necessary to learn or teach Old Norse, runes, and sagas. Graded lessons, saga readings, runic inscriptions, grammar exercises, pronunciation, maps, history sections, student grammar guide, and vocabulary teach Old Norse, Vikings, Iceland, old Scandinavia, myth and legends. --- Download FREE ANSWER KEY www.vikinglanguage.com -- Now available, two audio MP3 download OLD NORSE PRONUNCIATION ALBUMS ”VIKING LANGUAGE 1: AUDIO LESSONS 1-8: (Pronounce Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas)” and Audio Lessons 9-15." Search “Viking Language audio lessons” under Amazon “all departments” and “MP3 music.” Also Itunes and CDbaby. -- VISIT www.vikinglanguage.com and oldnorse.org for information on “Viking Language Series” and sample audio readings -- Now available, “Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader” with complete sagas, poems of Scandinavian gods, heroes, Old Norse runes, and vocabulary.

About this title

About the Author:

Jesse Byock is Distinguished Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and professor at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. He directs the Mosfell Archaeological Project in Iceland. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prof. Byock teaches Old Norse, the Icelandic sagas, Viking history and archaeology and directs the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) in Iceland. Jesse Byock is the author of Viking Age Iceland, and Feud in the Icelandic Saga. His translations from Old Norse The Prose Edda, The Saga of the Volsungs, The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, and Grettir“s Saga. See www.vikingnorse.com and oldnorse.com and vikinglanguage.com

Review:

Even the many academics who have done their best to learn Old Norse old-style, and then to teach it, will benefit from working through the course. As for students coming to the language without prior experience, they have it all: a very thorough grammar, but carefully spaced-out, explained without short cuts, and reinforced by exercises graded from absolute no-knowledge upward; well-selected and well-varied texts, with considerable use not only of the sagas but also of runestone-inscriptions, eddic poems and even notoriously difficult skaldic poems; and cultural background which takes in strange reports like that of the Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan (which gave rise to the movie The Thirteenth Warrior), maps, explanations and reconstructions...There is no-one better-qualified than Professor Byock to link up sagas with archaeology. (Tom Shippey)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1480216445
• ISBN 13: 9781480216440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364