History: Language: Old Norse

We don't know much about Old Norse yet. In the meantime, we can provide a few links.

General resources

• The Viking Society for Northern Research has a long list of articles relevant to ON, including translations, commentaries and essays.
• The University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age has an excellent page of links to ON language and culture.

Language learning resources

• Omniglot has an excellent overview of ON, as well as some well selected links to online courses and texts.
• How to curse in Norse
• Old Norse for Beginners is an excellent course to get you started
• Old Norse Online is a massive grammar reference, complemented by extracts from the sagas, by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum
• Old Norse-Modern English dictionary (pdf) by Ross G Arthur
• Links to several dictionaries and readers from the Germanic Lexicon Project
• ASNC Spoken Word has some basic ON grammar exercises as well as recordings and side-by-side text and translation of extracts from Gylfaginning and Hrólfs saga kraka

Texts and sagas

• Erik the Red's Saga
• Laxdaela Saga
• The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
• Fritiof's Saga
• Grettir the Strong