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| NorseRonin Pro Member United States youtube.com/user/NorRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5279 days ago 47 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Icelandic Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 11 03 December 2010 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi there, I just want to know what are some good websites to obtain Icelandic books?
I've searched on google, and I just want to hear from other people of any websites that have Icelandic books whether used or new. I also would like to know of any specific websites that have Old-Norse saga's in the "original" or even just translations into modern Icelandic. For some reason I can't find any of the saga's in Icelandic for sale! I found some great websites that feature sagas in Icelandic, but not any that sold books, and I prefer reading novels and stories in book form as oppose to webpages. Thanks a lot in advance :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 11 03 December 2010 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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There are a few Icelandic works over at runeberg.org, although the majority of what's there is Swedish. They're all in the public domain, so they're free and in epub, mobi or pdf formats.
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| NorseRonin Pro Member United States youtube.com/user/NorRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5279 days ago 47 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Icelandic Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 11 03 December 2010 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you very much! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 11 03 December 2010 at 9:44am | IP Logged | ||
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The best homepage to visit if you want sagas is in my opinion the Norwegian http://www.heimskringla.no, where you can find texts in all Nordic languages. Under "Norrøne kildetekster" you can even find the sagas in original (although with standardized spelling) with translations into the Modern Nordic languages. 'Beowulf' in Anglosaxon and Taciti 'Germania are also found here, plus the only major remaining specimen af Old Gutnic (from the island Gotland), Gudasagan, which I have written about in my log.
As for books in Icelandic it certainly is a problem. I have had to order some of my dictionaries directly from Reykjavik. I used the bookstore of the university (Bóksala Stúdenta ) for this, but there is also a big store called Mál og Menning in the town center which might be able to send books abroad. Edited by Iversen on 03 December 2010 at 10:06am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 11 03 December 2010 at 10:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I've bought books from Eymundsson before:
http://www.eymundsson.is/ They have a pretty decent selection of modern books. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| NorseRonin Pro Member United States youtube.com/user/NorRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5279 days ago 47 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Icelandic Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 11 04 December 2010 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Iversen, that was very useful indeed, I appreciate it greatly :)
And thanks very much Egill, that was also very useful, I will definitely be purchasing books from there :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| NorseRonin Pro Member United States youtube.com/user/NorRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5279 days ago 47 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Icelandic Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 11 04 December 2010 at 5:33am | IP Logged | ||
hmmm, I tried buying a book from there and the only country I can choose to mail it to is Iceland. Perhaps it was just that particular book I wanted to get (Ég man Þig) but that would be odd. How did you recieve the books that you ordered? Or were they e-books? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anders_h Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6114 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 8 of 11 04 December 2010 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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A very good saga database is here:
http://www.sagadb.org/ I have have bought books from this site: http://www.forlagid.is/ and there is also http://www.boksala.is/ The main problem is the delivery costs, if you buy a bunch of books several times it is cheaper to take a flight there and buy the books in Reykjavík yourself, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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