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Alaric's Magic Sheet of Old Norse Paradigms (Hyperlink)
A two page sheet giving students a handy reference to paradigms and the essentials of Old Norse grammar. Available to download from http://alarichall.org.uk/teaching/Alaric's_magic_sheet.pdf
English to Old Norse Dictionary
Dictionary for translating from English to Old Norse.
Arthur, Ross G., 2002 'English-Old Norse Dictionary' (Cambridge, Ontario: In parentheses Publications)
Arthur, Ross G., 2002 'English-Old Norse Dictionary' (Cambridge, Ontario: In parentheses Publications)
An Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson
An Icelandic-English dictionary, based on the ms. collections of the late Richard Cleasby. Enl. and completed by Gudbrand Vigfússon. With an introduction and life of Richard Cleasby by George Webbe Dasent.Download the dictionary from…
Blog: Norse and Viking Blogspot
A blog discussing Viking-related themes from Viqueen
Old Norse Digital Web Project at UCLA
'Old Norse Digital Web: An Integrated Environment for Old Icelandic Morphology and Textual Study' is a project developing an automated, web-based Old Icelandic morphological (“word form”) analyzer and English language search tool that will attach…
Photo of Midgarth Crescent Sign in Lerwick, Shetland
Midgarth is a common Norse placename, and Anglicisation of Miðgarðr, meaning in this case 'Middle Enclosure / Farm' . Miðgarðr is also the 'Middle Realm', and home of mankind, in Norse Mythology.
Photo of Copeland Pier Sign in Lerwick, Shetland
Copeland is a common placename and surname deriving from Old Norse kaupa land, meaning 'bought land'. This example is from Lerwick in Shetland.
Photo of Twageos Road Sign in Lerwick, Shetland
Twageos is a place name incorporating the common Norse place name element 'gjá', meaning 'ravine' and rendered in Shetland as 'geo' or 'gjo'. Twageos may refer to the 'two ravines'.
Photo of Tait's Closs Sign in Lerwick, Shetland
Tait is a common Scottish surname derived from the Old Norse 'teitr', meaning cheerful. Many surnames and place names in Shetland have a Norse origin.
Shetland Place Name Elements Reference
A handy guide to Norse place name elements, produced by the Shetland Place Names Project, and available to download on the Shetland Amenity Trust Website.
Leaflet on Shetland's Norse Placenames
A leaflet produced by Shetland Amenity Trust, giving information about Shetland's Norse place names
Old Norse Lesson 1: Introducing the Language
What is Old Norse? How old is it? How is it related to English and the other languages of Northern Europe?
In this first video of a planned series, Dr. Jackson Crawford (UC Berkeley) sets out what you need to know about the language in order to…
In this first video of a planned series, Dr. Jackson Crawford (UC Berkeley) sets out what you need to know about the language in order to…
Conversational Old Norse
A blog post about Old Norse greetings and small talk.
Audio Clips from Jesse Byock's Viking Language Series (Hyperlink)
Sample audio clips on the website for the Viking Language Series by Jesse Byock. Includes a reading of the inscription on King Gorm's Rune stone in Jelling, and a reading from the Saga of the Greenlanders.
Pronunciation of Old Norse Guide by Óskar Guðlaugsson (hyperlink)
Page on the standard pronunciation of Old Norse by Óskar Guðlaugsson from the website 'Old Norse for Beginners'
Magic Sheet lecture 1
An introduction to Old Icelandic/Old Norse grammar via a tour of Alaric's Magic Sheet of Old Norse Inflections (available via http://www.alarichall.org.uk). This video is mainly on asking what Old Icelandic is.
Words on Words: The Meaning of Ragnarok
A blog post about what Ragnarok means by Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham.
Twatt T-Shirt Souvenir, Shetland
T-Shirt playing on the placename Twatt (from ON þveit, meaning small area of land), which is common to both Shetland and Orkney. Photographed in a tourist shop in Lerwick.
Gersum Project: The Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary
The Gersum Project, funded by the AHRC, aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of up to 1,600 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the North of England.
Nerthus Project
The Nerthus Project aims at compiling a lexicon of Old English based on structural-functional principles. This involves the synthesis of the knowledge generated by a long tradition of philological studies in Old English and its reinterpretation not…