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
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2019
978-0-259-73424-6 (ISBN)
Description
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Old Norsk or Icelandic and the anglo-saxon may be termed the parents of the English Language, and their Knowledge is not only highly useful but absolutely necessary to every educated Englishman who looks upon his language with the eye of a historian and philosopher. Nothing is more interest ing than to look back to these two sources from whence the english tongue is derived, and a thorough knowledge of Eng lish is only possible by being acquainted with its 'origin. These languages together with anglo-norman, early Ger man, ancient, mediaeval and modern English, ought to he regularly studied.
