A short practical and easy method of learning the old Norsk tongue or Icelandic language after the Danish of E. Rask ; with an Icelandic reader, an account of the Norsk poetry and the sagas, and a modern Icelandic vocabulary for travellers

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THE ICELANDIC LANGUAGE. 3L 2ST 3D O 3ST :Q FRANZ THIMM, FOREIGN BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER. 3 BROOK GROSVENOR W.SQUARESTREET, 1868.A SHORT PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD OF LEARNING THE OLD NORSK TONGUE OR ICELANDIC LANGUAGE THE DANISHAFTER OF E. RASE WITH AN ICELANDIC READER OF THE NORSK POETRY AND THE SAGASAN ACCOUNT ICELANDIC VOCABULARY FOR TRAVELLERSAND A MODERN BY H. LUND. EDITION.SECOND CORRECTED IjOOXriD O3XT: FRANZ THIMM, BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHERFOREIGN W.24 LATE 3. BROOK STREET, GROSVF.KOR SQUARE 1869.PREFACE. The Old Norsk or Icelandic and the Anglo-Saxon may of the andbe termed the theirEnglish Language,parents butis not usefulKnowledge only highly absolutely necessary to educated who looks his withevery Englishman upon language the of a historian and is more interest-eye philosopher. Nothing than to look back to these two sources from whence theing is and a oftongue derived, thorough knowledgeenglish Eng- lish is with itsbeingonly possible by acquainted 'origin. withThese Ger-Anglo-Norman,languages together early medieval and modern to beman, ancient, English, ought studied.regularly Rask's we have indicated aBy adapting abridgement simple method of which we will be foundlearning Icelandic, hope useful. generally The Editor.INDEX. PART I. Page I. The Pronunciation 1 II. Modification of Vowels t> Inflection of Words & I. The Noun. 1st. Declension 8 .Una. 9 .IHrd. . . 14, Declension of Nouns with the Article 18 II. 20Adjectives The of 26Comparison Adjectives HI. Pronouns 28 Numerals 3 IV. The Verb 34 Verbs 49Auxiliary V. Particles 51 The formation of Words 52 54Syntax 55Prepositions 56Prosody PART II. The Old Norsk and the 58-73Poetry Sagas PART HI. 74101Icelandic Reader PART IV. .Modern Icelandic for Travellers . 102-121