Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary

An Icelandic Primer
With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary
By Henry Sweet, M.A.
This book has been modified slightly from the original to make the paradigm references clear. The original was the second edition, published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1895. The original page images1 were scanned in by Sean Crist2 . They were then OCRed and reformatted for Project Gutenberg into text, HTML, and TEX by Ben Crowder3 . Other versions of the text may be found at the current homepage for the primer4 or through Project Gutenberg5 . Special thanks to Jonas Oster6 for providing the Omega ΩTP code to fix nondisplaying characters.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/ kurisuto/germanic/oi sweet about.html kurisuto@unagi.cis.upenn.edu 3 crowderb@blankslate.net 4 http://www.blankslate.net/lang/etexts.php 5 http://www.gutenberg.net/ 6 d97ost@dtek.chalmers.se
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Preface
The want of a short and easy introduction to the study of Icelandic has been felt for a long time—in fact, from the very beginning of that study in England. The Icelandic Reader, edited by Messrs. Vigfusson and Powell, in the Clarendon Press Series, is a most valuable book, which ought to be in the hands of every student; but it still leaves room for an elementary primer. As the engagements of the editors of the Reader would have made it impossible for them to undertake such a work for some years to come, they raised no objections to my proposal to undertake it myself. Meanwhile, I found the task was a more ...