Viking Language 2

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.

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 (Háskóli Íslands) in the Department of History where he is affiliated with the Medieval Icelandic and Viking Studies Programs. More information at oldnorse.org & juleswilliampress.com.