Byock Jesse L. Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas

Jules William Press, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1480216440.The Viking Language Series teaches Old Norse, the language spoken by Vikings and Icelanders, runes, sagas, eddic, skaldic poetry, and history of the Viking World. It focuses on the most frequent words in the sagas, taking you to the heart of Icelandic literature, Viking runestones, heroic legends, Old Norse mythology, and early medieval history of Scandinavia. Created by Jesse Byock, Professor of Old Norse, Medieval Scandinavian Studies and Viking Archaeology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík.