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The Skáld-Machine
In the age of intelligent machines, why does Galois compose their essays archaically? Archaically, that is to say, by the sheer force of human…
Jan 27, 2025
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Fustel de Coulanges in the Far North
In The Ancient City (La cité antique), published in 1864, Fustel de Coulanges argues that ancient Greek and Roman societies were fundamentally…
Jun 4
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An odd coincidence
On past tense formation, strolling through Indo-European, Uralic and other kins of languages
Feb 4, 2025
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Future and movement (2)
Of the future tense its and entry into grammar
Jan 30, 2025
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Future and movement (1)
Of the future tense and its entry into grammar
Jan 23, 2025
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Honum þótti
Let's carry on reading Íslendingabók. Chapter 1 tells us about the early colonization of Iceland from Norway. Our latest extensive reading effort has…
Jan 20, 2025
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Germanic dental suffix
The Old Norse preterite and past participle of weak verbs is formed using a dental suffix, a feature undoubtedly inherited from Proto-Germanic. (Ringe…
Jan 16, 2025
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John Megaard's method
Norse chronicle: in search of the authors
Jan 13, 2025
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Hvorfor lære norsk
In the following, we dive into the dream of the mad king Sigurð, in The Saga of Sigurd the Crusader, Eystein and Olaf and hope to demonstrate how…
Jan 8, 2025
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Old Norse weak verbs and dental suffix
We recently evoked at length the coexistence, in Old Norse as well as across the Germanic languages, of weak and strong verbs. Observing the conjugation…
Jan 6, 2025
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Reading Íslendingabók like a machine (2)
A hearty piece of Old Norse for today. Ingólfr hét maðr nórrænn, er sannliga er sagt, at færi fyrst þaðan til Íslands, þá er Haraldr inn hárfagri var…
Jan 4, 2025
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Bæði margspǫk ok óljúgfróð
Grammar dive into Íslendingabók (3)Þuríðr var bæði margspǫk ok óljúgfróð, Thurid was both very wise and truthful. We shall continue our grammatical…
Dec 30, 2024
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