Old Norse Online
Table of Contents
Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum
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Lessons
0. Introduction to Old Norse
1. Ari Þorgilsson: On the Settling of Iceland
2. from the Prologue of Snorra Edda
3. from the Grettis saga
4. from the Njáls saga
5. from the Egils saga
6. from the Tale of Böðvarr Bjarki
7. from the Battle of Stamford Bridge
8. The Waking of Angantýr
9. from the Völuspá
10. from the Hávamál
Grammar Points
1. The Alphabet
2. Sound System
2.1. Consonants
2.2. Vowels
2.3. Syllables and Stress
2.4. Umlaut
2.5. Consonant Changes
3. Strong Declension
3.1. a / ja / wa-Stems
3.2. ô / jô / wô-Stems
4. Strong Conjugation
4.1. Strong Verb Classes
4.2. Active Paradigm
4.3. Middle Paradigm
5. Word Order and Concord
6. Further Sound Rules
6.1. Syncope and Contraction
6.2. Breaking
6.3. Raising
6.4. Lengthening and Shortening
6.5. Retention of Semi-Vowels
7. Strong Declension
7.1. i-Stems
7.2. u-Stems
8. Personal Pronouns
8.1. First and Second Person Pronouns
8.2. Third Person Pronouns
9. Weak Conjugation
9.1. Weak Verb Classes
9.2. Active Paradigm
9.3. Middle Paradigm
10. Particles
11. Strong Declension
11.1. r-Stems
11.2. nd-Stems
11.3. Other Consonant Stems
12. Demonstratives
12.1. Pronouns & Adjectives
12.2. Definite Article
13. Adjectives
13.1. Strong Declension
13.2. Declension of annarr
13.3. Possessive Adjectives
14. Past Participle
14.1. Formation
14.2. Supine
15. Prepositions
16. Weak Nominal Declension
16.1. an/jan-Stems
16.2. ôn/jôn-Stems
16.3. in-Stems
17. Adjectives
17.1. Weak Declension
17.2. Comparison of Adjectives
18. Relatives, Interrogatives, and Indefinites
18.1. Relatives
18.2. Interrogatives
18.3. Indefinites
19. Present Participle
20. Adjective Use
21. Distributive and Negative Pronouns and Adjectives
21.1. Distributives
21.2. Negatives
22. Numerals
22.1. Cardinals and Ordinals
22.2. Numeral Declension
23. The First Strong Conjugation
24. The Second Strong Conjugation
25. Adverbs
25.1. General
25.2. Negation and Affirmation
25.3. Local
25.4. Comparison
26. The Third Strong Conjugation
27. The Fourth Strong Conjugation
28. Subject Agreement and Verbal Complements
29. The Accusative Case
30. Pronouns, Adverbs, and Conjunctions Introducing Subordinate Clauses
31. The Fifth Strong Conjugation
32. The Sixth Strong Conjugation
33. The Genitive Case
34. The Dative Case
35. Subordinate Clauses with er and at
36. The Seventh Strong Conjugation
37. Weak Verbs and the First Weak Conjugation
37.1. Basic Formation of Weak Verbs
37.2. The First Weak Conjugation
38. The Subjunctive
38.1. Present Subjunctive
38.2. Past Subjunctive
39. Reflexive and Middle Verbs
39.1. Reflexive Formation
39.2. Use of Reflexives
40. Tense and Aspect
40.1. Relative Time Marking
40.2. The Perfect
40.3. The Future
40.4. Historical Present
41. Second Weak Conjugation
42. Third Weak Conjugation
43. Preterite-Present Verbs
43.1. The First Gradation
43.2. The Third Gradation
43.3. The Fourth Gradation
43.4. The Fifth Gradation
44. Anomalous Verbs: valda, vilja, vera
45. Word Derivation
45.1. Derived Verbs
45.2. Derived Nouns and Adjectives
45.3. Compounds
46. Runes
46.1. Phonology
46.2. Orthography
46.3. Orthographic Features
47. Runic Declension
47.1. Declension of Vocalic Stems
47.2. Declension of Consonant Stems
47.3. Pronominal Declension
48. Runic Verbal Conjugation
49. Runic Syntax
49.1. Adjectives and Modifiers
49.2. Verb Placement and Word Order
50. Inscriptions