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Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas

內容簡介

內容簡介 Innovative and user-friendly, Viking Language 1 offers everything necessary to learn and teach Old Norse. The language of Vikings and Icelandic sagas, Old Norse is the basis of all modern Scandinavian Languages and is especially close to Modern Icelandic. Designed by a professor with 30 years' experience teaching Old Norse and Icelandic, Viking Language 1 assumes no previous language training. In a straight-forward way, Viking Language 1 employs a modernword frequency strategy that speeds learning. You quickly learn how to read original saga passages and Viking Age runes from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Grammar and exercises relate specifically to the reading passages of the lesson This way, the student focuses directly on the issues at hand. Accurate maps and history sections explain the Viking Age, the settlement of Iceland, seafaring as well as saga writing and mythology. The companion volume, "Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader" provides an additional treasure trove of Old Norse information. You will read whole sagas and runic inscriptions. Together, the two books are a thorough entry into the Viking World. -- Download on www.oldnorse.org FREE ANSWER KEY to the lesson exercises in Viking Language 1 -- NOW AVAILABLE on www.oldnorse.org: two audio MP3 download PRONUNCIATION ALBUMS, "VIKING LANGUAGE 1: AUDIO LESSONS 1-8" and "VIKING LANGUAGE 1: AUDIO LESSONS 9-15". For more information on the new "Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series" of books, eBooks, and bilingual saga editions visit www.oldnorse.org." The series also includes German, Italian, and Spanish editions.

作者介紹

作者介紹 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

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