Language Education
The want of a short and easy introduction to the study of Icelandic has been felt for a long time--in fact, from the very beginning of that study in England. The _Icelandic Reader_, edited by Messrs. Vigfusson and Powell, in the Clarendon Press Series, is a most valuable book,...
The want of a short and easy introduction to the study of Icelandic has been felt for a long time--in fact, from the very beginning of that study in England. The _Icelandic Read...
2. Chapter 287. The _t_ of the neut. is doubled after a long vowel: _nȳtt_, _hātt_. Monosyllables in _ð_, _dd_, _tt_ form their neut. in _-tt_: _breiðr_ (broad), _breitt_; _leiddr_ (led), _...
3. Chapter 3bīta (_bite_) bītr beit bitu bitinn drīfa (_drive_) drīfr dreif drifu drifinn grīpa (_grasp_) grīpr greip gripu gripinn līða (_go_) līðr leið liðu liðinn līta (_look_) lītr leit...
4. Chapter 4Þōrr fōr fram ā leið ok þeir fēlagar, ok gekk fram til miðs dags; þā sā þeir borg standa ā vǫllum nǫkkurum, ok sęttu [*] hnakkann ā bak sēr aptr, āðr þeir fengu sēt yfir upp; ga...
5. Chapter 5Sveinn Danakonungr ok Ōlāfr Svīakonungr ok Eirīkr jarl vāru þar þā með allan hęr sinn; þā var fagrt veðr ok bjart sōl-skin. Gengu þeir nū upp ā hōlminn allir hǫfðingjar með mikl...
6. Chapter 6Sīðan lætr hann ī haf, ok kömr ī Noreg, ok lætr flytja upp varnað sinn, ok þurfti nū meira við þat en fyrr, er hann var ī Noregi. Hann fęrr nū sīðan ā fund Haralds konungs, ok v...
7. Chapter 7fā _sv._ 1, grasp; receive, get; give; be able. *fāsk*, wrestle. *fāsk ā*, be obtained, be. faðir _sm._ 4, father. fær _see_ *fā*. fæstr _see_ *fār*. fagnaðr _sm._ 2, joy; enter...
8. Chapter 8rāð _sn._ advice; what is advisable--'sjā eitt at rāði,' consider advisable; plan, policy, resolution. rāða _sv._ 1, advise, _w. acc. of thing and dat. of pers._; consider, deli...