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Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (Book 2 in The Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series) is a language workbook built around a treasure trove of old Scandinavian lore. Designed for beginners to those more advanced, this dynamic book includes translation exercises that immerses the learner in Old Norse sources and runes. Read complete sagas, myths, creation stories, and runic inscriptions with passages and poems about Scandinavian gods, monster-slayers, dwarves, giants, warrior kings, and queens. This book takes the reader deep into the world of the Vikings. The book also offers a large vocabulary, special chapters on Eddic and Skaldic poetry, and a full reference grammar. NOW AVAILABLE: Old Norse - Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas and Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old Icelandic. LEARN MORE AT oldnorse.org and juleswilliampress.com about related books, answer keys, sample audio, and instructional resources.

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Jesse Byock's Viking Language Series consists of two printed volumes. The first, Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, leads you into the language. The second, Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader, has longer selections up to the entire saga of Hrafnkel Priest of Frey . Two download audio albums found on iTunes and Amazon Music accompany Viking Language ... These are all anyone needs for a thorough knowledge of Old Norse and runes, with the considerable bonus of acquiring a natural modern native-speaker pronunciation. Byock's course is a delight on every level. It will surely far increase Old Norse students and satisfy a widely felt demand. It is the biggest reinforcement to philological studies, combining language and literature, since Tolkien. Both Tolkien and his friend Gordon would be delighted to see it, hear it and use it... If only such a work had existed, when this reviewer was struggling. Modern students have every reason to be grateful. -Prof. Tom Shippey, author of The Road to Middle Earth and Beowulf, the Critical Heritage. Teaching Old Norse with Viking Language 1 and 2 by Jesse Byock is a real joy, and students love them. Impressive in breadth and depth. The reference grammar will be thoroughly worn out by all readers. A masterful work. I cant praise it enough. -Prof. Robert Bjork, Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies An absolutely wonderful book! Definitely not a traditional language-learning book. I bought it and so glad I did. I've always wanted to learn Old Norse. Well, this Series is the answer, providing best of both worlds. I get to learn Old Norse, so that I can read my beloved sagas in their original language, and I get to learn modern Icelandic at the same time! But the proof is in the pudding: In less than a week I've been able to read and understand some text from sagas, and I have a good understanding of Old Norse-Icelandic grammar and syntax. -Musica Nova

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Jesse Byock (Ph.D., Harvard) is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he teaches the language, history, runes, archaeology, and saga literature of early Scandinavia. A professor at UCLA�s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, he specializes in Viking archaeology focusing on Iceland, where he directs the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP). This project has excavated a chieftain's longhouse, pagan and Christian burials, worship sites, and a major harbor from the first centuries of Iceland's Viking Age settlement. Jesse Byock is also a professor at the University of Iceland (H�sk�li �slands) in the Department of History where he is affiliated with the Medieval Icelandic and Viking Studies Programs. More information at oldnorse.org & juleswilliampress.com.

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