Old Icelandic

American  

noun

1. Old Norse as used in Iceland. OIcel

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Old Icelandic British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.

From Fox News

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

From BBC

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

From Project Gutenberg