Excerpt from A Compendious Grammar of the Old-Northern or Icelandic Language: Compiled and Translated From the Grammars of Rask The first of these is the earliest grammar of the language, which has any pretensions to completeness, and though inferior to the later grammars of the same author, is a very learn ed and philosophical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.