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Here you will find an inflection table for Old Norse, advice about how to use the Old Norse Dictionary, comments on a couple of Old Norse texts and a list of key Old Norse words.
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Inflection table. This is a brief presentation of how nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns are conjugated/declined in Old Norse. It may be useful when working on texts and when you have to revise your grammar.
(6 pages) PDF
Using the Old Norse Dictionary. Nor酶nn ordbok (The Old Norse Dictionary) does not provide much information about how words are conjugated/declined. It only contains information in square brackets when words belong to minor inflection classes, i.e. if no square brackets are shown in the dictionary, the word belongs to one of the major classes.
(3 pages) PDF
Comments. This is a small brochure containing comments on the written curriculum in Old Norse for NOSP 103, i.e. Chapters 48 and 49 of 脫l谩fs saga Tryggvasonar, and the whole of Margr茅tar saga. This brochure also contains a slightly more detailed chapter on use of the Old Norse Dictionary than that shown above.
(25 pages) PDF
Semantic fields. What type of words did they use in Old Norse for subjects such as family, profession, body, friendship, love, war, landscape, transport, etc? This provides a list which has been organised according to the semantic fields. The list explains which inflection class a word belongs to, so that you can use it for practising morphology in Old Norse.
(14 page) PDF