Graded Readings and Exercises in Old Icelandic

by Kenneth G. Chapman

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not a very worthwhile learning aid for Old Icelandic (Old Norse). What one gets in its 72 pages are a few basic noun and verb paradigms and some reading passages with interlinear glosses, but it stops just as one has started to make any significant progress with the language. Chapman’s effort (which feels like little more than well-typeset lecture notes) may have filled a gap when it was first published in 1964. However, Valfells & Cathey’s Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course, which appeared a few years later, is also based on new paradigms followed by exercises, and it will take the student well beyond the material in this book, all the way to being ready to tackle a whole-length saga.