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From: groover@netcom.com (Robert Groover)
Subject: Re: old icelandic/norse
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matt.mcgrattan@almac.co.uk (MATT MCGRATTAN) writes:
>hasd anyone got any experience of learning Old Norse/Icelandic..?

There is a very old intro to Old Norse which I have seen in university 
libraries but have never seen used - it was originally published about 
1905 by Oxford UP.  I believe the author was Wright (Henry Wright? - same 
guy who wrote the standard Gothic intro).  This was a nice readable intro 
which you could blow through in a few hours, and then decide if you want 
to invest the hundreds of hours to really learn it.

Robert Groover   groover@netcom.com   (PGP key on request)
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