Member: shinyjenni

Re: ON grammar. As I looked at it, I suspected it might be JUST grammar, particularly at that price, and without exercises and reading selections would not work at all for self-teaching, which is what he's trying to do. He has a truly ancient text which sounds like a precursor of Gordon, with text, glossary, and some grammar, which someone downloaded from the web, as I understand it. I looked it up and the description indicates as much, at least. My learning text, and in a class at that, was Cathay/Valfells, which had lots of exercises, but is only available nowadays used at a really exorbitant price. We used Gordon for reading practice. He'll just have to make do with what he has. Thanks for the info anyway.

posted by erilarlo at 11:21 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2008

My tag watch notes you posted a new(? at least to me) Old Norse Grammar. Is this one could use to learn ON? I know someone who is trying to do this with one that makes Gordon look modern. I learned it with Cathay-Valfells in a class decades ago, and think it might be possible with that one, but it's long out of print and used copies are much too expensive for him anyway.

posted by erilarlo at 9:20 am (EST) on Sep 30, 2008