Excerpt from A Short Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language After the Danish of E. Rask: With an Icelandic Reader, an Account of the Norsk Poetry and the Sagas and a Modern Icelandic Vocabulary for Travellers The Old Norsk or Icelandic and the anglo-saxon may be termed the parents of the English Language, and their Knowledge is not only highly useful but absolutely necessary to every educated Englishman who looks upon his language with the eye of a historian and philosopher. Nothing is more interest ing than to look back to these two sources from whence the english tongue is derived, and a thorough knowledge of Eng lish is only possible by being acquainted with its 'origin. These languages together with anglo-norman, early Ger man, ancient, mediaeval and modern English, ought to be regularly studied. 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.