Old Icelandic

noun

Old Norse as used in Iceland. OIcel

Old Icelandic

noun

the dialect of Old Norse spoken and written in Iceland; the Icelandic language up to about 1600

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He went on to study English at Newcastle University, where he taught himself Old Icelandic so he could read the Icelandic sagas.

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Before he became the literary executor of the Tolkien Estate, he was a lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at the University of Oxford.

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After serving in the RAF during World War Two he became a lecturer in Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic at Oxford University.

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Old Icelandic, that is, Norse on Icelandic soil, develops its own forms, remaining, however, in the main very similar to O. N.

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Old High German old identity

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