An Icelandic Primer - With Grammar Notes and Glossary

From the PREFACE. The want of a short and easy introduction to the study of Icelandic has been felt for a long time -- in fact from the very beginning of that study in England. The Icelandic Reader edited by Messrs. Vigfusson and Powell in the Clarendon Press Series is a most valuable book which ought to be in the hands of every student; but it still leaves room for an elementary primer. As the engagements of the editors of the Reader would have made it impossible for them to undertake such a work for some years to come they raised no objections to my proposal to undertake it myself. Meanwhile I found the task was a more formidable one than I had anticipated and accordingly before definitely committing myself to it I made one final attempt to induce Messrs. Vigfusson and Powell to take it off my hands; but they very kindly encouraged me to proceed with it...