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 • Nov. 30, 2022

In Old Dutch there was "fader"; in Old Icelandic we find "faðir"; in Old High German, a precursor to modern German, it was "fater" – now "vater"; and, finally, in Old Danish, "fathær."

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2022

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 • Jan. 17, 2020

Carolyne Larrington, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford University and an expert on Old Norse and Old Icelandic, says there are deep historical links across the North Sea.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2016

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

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias