27.4282, Books: An Elementary Grammar of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: Bayldon
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From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: An Elementary Grammar of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: Bayldon
Title: An Elementary Grammar of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language
Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 199
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LinGram-199-An-Elementary-Grammar-of-the-Old-Norse-or-Icelandic-Language/en
Author: George Bayldon
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862887187 Pages: 139 Price: Europe EURO 54.80
Abstract:
The varied and vigorous literature of ancient Scandinavia will amply repay the
student for the labour which he can bestow upon it, and to facilitate his
acquisition of the language in which it is embodied is the object of this
work. With this view, I have aimed at the utmost brevity consistent with
completeness and precision, avoiding all those elaborate details which can
only interest the advanced scholar. Stating merely those rules which must
necessarily be mastered, I have endeavoured through simplicity of arrangement
and a practical system to present the general structure of the Icelandic
tongue before the learner's eye, so that with ordinary application it will be
easily comprehended; particularly by him who possesses the advantage of an
acquaintance with some of its cognate branches. Wherever rules are laid down,
they are so enforced by analogous examples selected from standard authorities,
with a correct translation of the passages, as to show both the proper
application of them, and the right meaning of the sentences.
The earliest poetry and historical sagas of the North furnish exhaustless
sources of intellectual pleasure to the antiquarian and philologist. The
traditions of Iceland, carried into that island by emigrants from the
Scandinavian peninsula soon after its discovery, and imperishably preserved by
them in written documents, are so closely connected with the history of
Northern Europe as to render a knowledge of it incomplete without them. Many
of the skalds travelled in foreign lands before the twelfth century, and as
they were nobles and warriors, they were received by the kings, to whom they
were often related, as friends and councillors; thus on their return to their
native land they brought with them much historical matter which, since the
Roman characters had been introduced with the Christian religion, was
committed to writing. The value of some of these documents to English history
is considerable, and besides confirming or adding to our stock of facts during
its darkest period, they afford us very interesting views of the state of
society, and of the manners and mode of living of the age in which they were
composed (adapted from the preface).(Originally published 1870 in London).
Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
Language Documentation
Ling & Literature
Subject Language(s): Norse, Old (non)
Written In: English (eng)
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